I believe for SS what happened was that after the reception of BvS, WB panicked and were like #### audiences don't like dark gritty comic book movies. The trailer for SS was a huge success (the ones with the pop songs) so they said hey lets let the trailer company make a cut of the movie and screen that. Then they thought hey let's add songs to make it fun, people want that right? Completely changing the tone of the film. People have posted online who attended test screenings of the Ayer Cut of SS and it makes more sense and flows much better. There isn't 2 introductions to Harley Quinn and Deadshot lol.
With JL, there was a decision once Snyder had almost completed his film to go with Wheedon to complete it. Instead of giving Wheedon a chance and some time to make the film he wanted to make they said you have to have it out by November so he rushed to get it finished. This lead to the frankenstein film which we all saw. I think Snyder said we only saw about 30 minutes of footage from his film the other 90 minutes as from Wheedon. The reason they didn't want to push the film back to 2018 was because the Studio Execs wanted a bonus that year so they said hell just release what you got who cares.
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