A Reddit user known as “BlackPanther2016,” posted a thread this morning, where he revealed his plans to file a lawsuit against, presumably, Warner Bros. andDC Comics. This U.K.-based moviegoer claims their case has been accepted and it begins on August 11. Here’s part of his lengthy Reddit post below, where he details the scenes shown in the trailers and other bits of footage that weren’t included in the theatrical cut.
“Suicide Squadtrailers showcased several SPECIFICJokerscenes that I had to pay for the whole movie just so that I can go watch those SPECIFIC SCENES that WB/DC had advertised in their trailers and TV spots. These scenes are: When Joker banged his head on his car window, when Joker says, ‘let me show you my toys’, when Joker punches the roof of his car, when Joker drops a bomb with his face all messed up and says, ‘BYE BYE!’ Non of these scenes were in the movie. I drove 300 miles to London to go watch these specific scenes they had explicitly advertised in their TV ads…and they didn’t show them to me. Adding to this, they were also 2 specificKatanascenes they advertised that were also the reason I wanted to go watch the movie. These scenes were: Katana’s eyes going black, and a slow motion shot of her and her sword taking souls…in a smokey kind of style. These scenes were advertised several times in the 1st trailer and many TV ads…but they didn’t show it to me in the movie. I wasted a lot of money paying and travelling to go watch this movie because of these specific scenes they had advertised to me and all of us saying, ‘hey, check out our preview! this will all be in our movie, come watch it on the 5th!!’ All lies. I told the theatre about this unjust act and said I didn’t get what I came here to see…can I have my money back. They laughed at me and kicked me out. So I’m now taking this to court. I want my refund, the trauma of being embarrassed as I was being kicked out and people laughing at me for wanting my refund, and also the 160 pounds of fuel money I used to drive to London from Scotland.”
It seems this unnamed Redditor may also be suing the specific movie theater that he went to in London, for kicking him out, but we don’t know for sure. We also don’t know where this case has been “accepted” and/or how long it will actually last in the court system for. Regardless, ‘BlackPanther2016,’ had this to say about movie studios' tendencies to show footage in trailers and not have those scenes in the theatrical cut.
Of course, it’s not terribly surprising that the scenes ‘BlackPanther2016’ mentioned in this Reddit post weren’t in the finished cut, since this has become a fairly common practice. While directorDavid Ayerhas hinted there will be plenty of deleted scenes, he also said that the theatrical version was his “director’s cut,” so we’ll have to wait and see if these scenes are included in the Blu-ray and DVD edition. As you can imagine, the originalRedditthread is filled with colorful comments, which you can check out in the link above, and stay tuned for any updates on this lawsuit.
