David Ayer, director of Suicide Squad (2016), shared an unreleased image of Jared Leto’s Joker on Twitter. The image showcases Leto trying out a different fitting than in the film. He wears a white collared shirt with a white bow tie and a black suit with a golden eye on the left shoulder and a golden skull on the right. 

Experiments pic.twitter.com/k9o3fVIwlk

— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) February 22, 2023

“These design experiments are part of creative discovery,” Ayer responded to someone in another tweet. “Inspiration was taken from a vast volume of looks in Joker comics over the decades….”

Since the release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League (2021), four years after Justice League (2017), fans have been demanding Warner Bros and DC to let Ayer do his cut of Suicide Squad that maintains his original vision. 

Ayer has been vocal about wanting to do this himself.

My turn… https://t.co/E5uumAwvdp pic.twitter.com/ckr9kzeGFD

— David Ayer (@DavidAyerMovies) July 29, 2021

“I put my life into this Suicide Squad. I made something amazing – My cut is intricate and emotional journey with some ‘bad people’ who are shit on and discarded (a theme that resonates in my soul). The studio cut is not my film. Read that again.

And my cut is not the 10 week director’s cut – It’s a fully mature edit by Lee Smith standing on the incredibly work by John Gilroy. It’s all Steven Price’s brilliant score, with not a single radio song in the whole thing. 

It has traditional character arcs, amazing performances, a solid 3rd  act resolution. A handful of people have seen it. If someone sees they have seen it, they haven’t.”