Warning: Spoilers forSuicide Squadfollow. If you haven’t seen the movie, turn back now.
The Warner Bros. DC Comics adaptationSuicide Squadis notable in the realm of the DC Extended Universe for a few reasons, one being that it’s the firstnotdirected byZack Snyder. Indeed, Snyder kicked things off with his Superman rebootMan of Steeland upped the ante with this year’sBatman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but for the third movie in the DCEU, Warner Bros. enlistedFuryandEnd of WatchhelmerDavid Ayerto steer the ship.
However, Snyder is still credited as an executive producer on the movie and actually has more to do withSuicide Squadthan you might think—he directed one of the film’s scenes. If you’ve seen the film, you know that in the flashback showing howJai Courtney’s Captain Boomerang was captured, it wasEzra Miller’s The Flash who thwarted Boomerang’s in-progress bank robbery. The cameo was a nice surprise for fans and a further piece of connective tissue to the DC Extended Universe as a whole, but that particular portion of the scene in question wasn’t directed by Ayer.
At the recentSuicide Squadpress day in New York, Collider’s own Steve Weintraub sat down with Ayer for an interview, and during the course of the conversation Steve brought up the Flash scene. Ayer revealed that the scene was always in the movie, but was shot in London:
“Flash was always in the movie, we just got lucky becauseJustice Leaguewas happening and they had the uniform, they had the assets, so we were able to get that photography.”
Ayer added that the scene was shot while they were in post-production onSuicide Squad, and when Steve asked if it was directed by Snyder, Ayer confirmed that indeed, theBatman v Supermanhelmer was behind the camera for that specific moment.
It makes sense, after all, as Miller was in costume as The Flash for the first time earlier this year as production began in London onJustice League. It wouldn’t make much sense for Miller to fly all the way to Los Angeles to shoot what amounts to a single shot, and so Snyder simply snapped the footage during the production ofJustice Leagueand sent it over to Ayer and theSuicide Squadpost-production team.
