“Justice League” actor Ray Fisher, who received a special offer last June to appear as Cyborg in the solo film “The Flash”, publicly stated that he did not want to get involved with the project via Twitter, hence the character Cyborg was written out of the script and will not be reformulated, according to insiders with knowledge of the situation.
Fisher publicly resigned his post last week for continuing to argue with DC Films president Walter Hamada, who is overseeing “The Flash”. The actor tweeted on December 30th, “Walter Hamada is the most dangerous type of facilitator. He lies, and the failed success of WB PR on September 4 sought to undermine the real issues of the Justice League investigation. “
Fisher added in his tweet: “I will not participate in any production associated with it”. It is important to note that Hamada did not oversee the production of “Justice League” and was not the head of DC Films at the time, nor was he hired during the initial release of the film.
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Hamada joined DC Films for the first time in 2018 and led the division for the release of its highest grossing film to date, “Aquaman” 2018, which grossed more than $ 1.4 billion at the global box office. On Tuesday, it was announced that Hamada had resumed his deal as president until 2023. Fisher called the news “reactionary” in a tweet later that day.
Fisher, in his only film role, first appeared as Cyborg in the 2017 “Justice League”. His last appearance as Cyborg will be in the “Justice League” Snyder Cut, which will debut this spring on HBO Max.
Fisher’s fight with DC Films and Hamada first surfaced last July, when the actor publicly accused “Justice League” director Joss Whedon of “rude, abusive and unprofessional” behavior on set . Fisher said Whedon’s behavior was permitted by then-president of DC Entertainment, Geoff Johns, and by Jon Berg, former co-president of production at WB. Berg left the company in December 2017 as part of a “restructuring”, while Johns left the job seven months later.
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Warner Bros. launched an independent investigation in mid-August, a movement initially celebrated by Fisher. But on September 4, he criticized the company on Twitter, saying, “After talking about the Justice League, I got a call from the president of DC Films, in which he tried to throw Joss Whedon and Jon Berg under the bus in the hope that I would give in to Geoff Johns. I will not.”
In a counter-statement later that day, Warner Bros. he denied Fisher’s accusation against Hamada and said the actor never really accused anyone of “actionable conduct”. The company also said that Fisher refused to speak to the investigator, despite several attempts to contact him.
In a statement released on Dec. 11, WarnerMedia said it had completed its investigation into Fisher’s accusations of inappropriate conduct during the production of “Justice League”. The company said “corrective action” was taken, but declined to clarify what that means.
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The plot of “The Flash” will introduce the public to the idea of the multiverse, one of the basic concepts of DC Comics. For the non-fanboy set, the multiverse refers to a variable number of alternative universes that coexist within the broader reality portrayed in DC comics. Originally created to explain various contradictory changes that the company’s characters have experienced over decades, it allows several different versions of the same characters to exist simultaneously and occasionally to interact.
For example, Ben Affleck’s Batman is not the only Caped Crusader who will return in “The Flash” – Michael Keaton will also return to his Batman role in the 1989 Tim Burton film, as TheWrap reported exclusively.