Many fans were left disappointed by the lack of Jared Leto’s Joker in this summers latest superhero blockbuster, Suicide Squad. However, one fan seems to have taken it one step further – by threatening to take the studio behind the film to court.
The character seemed to dominate much of the film’s marketing in the past few months, seemingly being portrayed as an integral part of the story. When the film was released, however, he was seemingly relegated to flashbacks and the occasional scene. This is obviously due to a lot of his scenes finding their way to the cutting room floor based on a rumored list of deleted scenes which you can find here.
This didn’t sit right with one fan, who took to Reddit to announce his intention to file a lawsuit against the studio for what he deemed as false advertising:
In his post on the r/movies subreddit he explained how he and his brother, who is in fact a lawyer, intend to sue WB and DC for false advertising, misleading visual images and gaining a profit from us and millions others due to these acts.
Before going on to add:
Suicide Squad trailers showcased several SPECIFIC Joker scenes 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 punchs 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.
He also explains how he won’t be a satisfied with deluxe premium special directors gold extended edition supreme cut akin to what Warner Bros. recently did with Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice which received an Ultimate Edition when it saw its home release.
Of course, even if he does manage to get this into a court, it’s very unlikely that anything will actually come from it. It isn’t the first time a trailer has mislead an audience and it likely won’t be the last.
You can check out the Joker-Lite Suicide Squad in theaters now.
What do you think? Do you agree with this fan? Or do you think it’s a bit extreme? Let us know below!
Source: Reddit