David Ayer’s original edit of 2016’s Suicide Squad deserves streaming salvation, says cast member Jay Hernandez — and not only because his fire-wielding meta, Chato Santana aka El Diablo, survived that one.
“Put it on HBO Max or whatever, and the audience gets to see what the director’s original vision was,” Hernandez suggested.
Ayer himself years ago confirmed that in his original Suicide Squad edit, Hernandez’s El Diablo survived and Harley Quinn and Deadshot (played by Margot Robbie and, um, Will Smith) “hooked up as a couple.”
And it’d even far easier/cheaper to give the alternate edit a home, since Ayer had filmed everything he needed for his original vision.