If you’re familiar with David Ayer’s Suicide Squad (2016) it’s probably due to it being a massive hit at the box office (which I think had to do more with the time it was released than anything else because during what I like to call the superhero boom you could throw a cape on virtually anyone, film it and make millions, if not billions. How else does one explain Captain Marvel, a fairly mediocre movie, earning over a billion dollars).

What you probably also heard was that the movie was essentially taken from David Ayer and reedited by a trailer house (a company that normally exclusively cuts trailers for movies), resulting in the movie that we saw in theaters.

I would argue that not only wasn’t that Ayer’s movie, but at the end of the day relatively few people have seen his movie.

Interestingly, the same thing happened to Jack Clayton’s Something Wicked This Way Comes.

The executives at The Walt Disney Company at the time weren’t satisfied with his cut, so they even went farther than Warner Bros. did, taking Clayton’s movie, reediting it, shooting extra footage and adding new music, to the tune of $4 million dollars.

And while I think the movie that resulted from the changes was pretty entertaining it was fairly schizophrenic in that it’s hard to tell who the film was for (it’s built around two young protagonists but was probably the most violent Disney film I have ever seen and is fairly intense at points) but it left me wondering what Jack Clayton’s movie would have looked like.

Then I found the original soundtrack by Georges Delerue, which you can listen to here and realized that it’s likely that more of Jack Clayton’s original movie was reshot than I originally thought because Delerue’s music is so out of sync with what was released, implying strongly that the visuals (as in the actual footage shot because apparently the bulk of the reshoots came months later, meaning that the young leads looked physically different at some points of the movie than others) and pacing were different as well.