Ray Fisher confirms he was removed from the Flash movie

The battle between Justice League Star Ray Fisher and DC Films President Walter Hamada hit another… What, pic? Nadir? Hypnotic conflict bump? Make your choice tonight, as Fisher announced that he had been officially removed from a scheduled appearance as Victor “Cyborg” Stone in the long gestation of Andy Muschietti Shine movie. It comes, not entirely aas might be expected, after a statement by Fisher late last year, in which he said he was going refuse to work on a film produced by Hamada, and Hamada is still firmly installed at DC Films, So here is.

In a long and passionate Twitter post, Fisher laid out his issues with Hamada in his clearest language yet., accusing him, during a phone call in June, of deliberately ignoring and attempting to downplay the issues the actor had with former DC Films director Geoff Johns, whom Fisher accused, alongside producer Jon Berg and director Joss Whedon, of racist and abusive behavior during shooting of Justice League. That phone call – which also included, in Fisher’s description, a “tasteless joke” about Hamada in the hopes of not ending up on Fisher’s Twitter –seems to have been at the origin of Fisher’s later assertions that Hamada had fortunately “cast [Whedon and Berg] under the bus’ in favor of Johns, who himself was strongly repelled by a statement from Warner Bros. in September.

Certainly most of the above is old news in this long and often overly vague story. Here’s where things get a bit juicier: Fisher goes on to accuse Hamada of deliberately covering up Johns’ behavior, including charges of tampering with the long-standing third-party investigation into the set of the film, which ended last month, but which we, in the public, were not informed. details of. In his statement, Fisher – who is supposed to at given the conclusions of the investigation –says the investigation “Was able to speak out against the racist, coercive, discriminatory and retaliatory behavior of Geoff Johns during his tenure with WarnerMedia Affiliates,” while claiming that this “led to the more immediate separation of paths between WarnerMedia and Joss Whedon. ” Again, we didn’t see any of the survey results – all we had at the time was WarnerMedia noting that “corrective measures” had been taken –but the chronology Is map loosely to Whedon sudden departure his HBO Max series Nevers back at the end of November 2020.

Fisher ends his statement by calling Hamada “unfit for leadership” and stating that he is willing to take a polygraph to back up his claims. WarnerMedia and DC Films have yet to respond – or even confirm, so far, that Fisher is out of the movie., although they have would have worked on plans to write it off Flash for a while now.