Ray Fisher confirmed that his character, Cyborg, was removed from the next DC Comics film about Flash.
Fisher played Cyborg in the 2017 film “Justice League” and was expected to repeat his role again in an independent film focused on Ezra Miller’s Flash. However, after months of feuding with WarnerMedia bosses over alleged mistreatment by director Joss Whedon and other executives, Fisher declared on Twitter that he would never work with DC movies president Walter Hamada again.
even though your bold wordsFisher noted that he disagreed with the decision to remove him from the untitled The Flash movie.
“I received official confirmation that Warner Bros. Pictures decided to remove me from The Flash’s cast,” he wrote in a long statement Wednesday. “I totally disagree with their decision, but it’s not surprising.”
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In June 2020, Fisher called Whedon, who was hired to handle the remakes in the “Justice League” after Zack Snyder was forced to leave post-production. Fisher called the treatment on Whedon’s set with the cast and crew “rude, abusive, unprofessional and completely unacceptable”.
In August, WarnerMedia announced that it was launching a third party investigation into Fisher’s allegations of unprofessional behavior, which now included producers Jon Berg and Geoff Johns, who served as co-chairs of DC Films’ Warners division.
In December, WarnerMedia announced that it had completed its investigation and noted that “corrective action” was taken. However, I would not go into details about what that action was.
In his latest reprimand to the studio heads, Fisher claims that Hamada hindered the investigation in an effort to protect Johns while throwing Whedon and Berg under the bus.
Ray Fisher confirmed that he will not appear in the tandalone film about The Flash for DC.
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Fisher says he spoke for almost an hour on the phone with Hamada in July 2020 to convince him that Johns contributed a lot to the negative experience he had in remaking “Justice League”, but says that the head of the studio did everything he was able to cover Johns, despite his allegations of “blatant racism”.
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“Despite Walter’s best efforts, the Justice League investigation was able to expose Geoff Johns’ racist, coercive, discriminatory and retaliatory behavior during his tenure with WarnerMedia affiliates. This also led to a more immediate separation between WarnerMedia and Joss Whedon, “Fisher wrote in his long statement on Twitter. “While it’s legally and financially safer to silently eliminate Geoff Johns or let Joss Whedon ‘go out’ on his own – I don’t share any of those responsibilities.”
The star also said that what he experienced should not have happened and that it exposes the current “Hollywood cover-up culture”.
“I claim that Walter Hamada is not suitable for a leadership position – and I am willing, at any time, to undergo a polygraph test to support my claims against him,” wrote Fisher. “I don’t know how many cases of abuse in the workplace Walter tried to cover in the past, but I hope the Justice League investigation will be the last one.”
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He concluded by saying that he would gladly pay the price of never reprising the character Cyborg again if that means exposing Hamada’s actions.
In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, WarnerMedia President and CEO Ann Sarnoff supported Hamada in the fight.
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“I believe in Walter Hamada and that he did not prevent or interfere with the investigation,” she said. “Furthermore, I have complete confidence in the process and the findings of the investigation. Walter is a respected leader, known to his colleagues, colleagues and me as a man of great character and integrity. As I said in the recent announcement of the extension of the Walter, I am excited about the place where he is taking DC Films and looking forward to working with him and the rest of the team to build DC Multiverse. “