Ray Fisher has confirmed that his character, Cyborg, has been removed from the upcoming DC Comics movie about The Flash.
Fisher played Cyborg in the 2017 film “Justice League” and is expected to reprise his role in a standalone film focused on Ezra Miller’s Flash. However, after months of quarreling with WarnerMedia bosses over alleged abuse by director Joss Whedon and other executives, Fisher has stated on Twitter that he will never work with DC Film President Walter Hamada again.
In spite of his daring words, Fisher noted that he does not agree with the decision to remove him from the untitled film The Flash.
‘I have received official confirmation that Warner Bros. Pictures decided to remove me from the cast of The Flash, ‘he wrote a long statement Wednesday. “I do not completely agree with their decision, but it is not surprising.”
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In June 2020, Fisher called out Whedon, who was brought in to handle resettlements on ‘Justice League’ after Zack Snyder was forced to bow to production. Fisher called Whedon’s on-set treatment of cast and crew “gross, insulting, unprofessional and completely unacceptable.”
In August, WarnerMedia announced that they were conducting a third-party investigation into Fisher’s allegations of unprofessional conduct, which now includes producers Jon Berg and Geoff Johns, who acted as co-presidents of Warners’ DC Films division.
In December, WarnerMedia announced that it had completed its investigation, noting that “corrective action” had been taken. However, it will not elaborate on what that action was.
In his last reprimand from the studio bosses, Fisher claims that Hamada obstructed the investigation in an attempt to protect Johns while throwing Whedon and Berg under the bus.
Ray Fisher has confirmed that he will not appear in the seven films of The Flash for DC.
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Fisher says he spoke to Hamada on the phone for nearly an hour in July 2020 to convince him that Johns had made a significant contribution to the negative experience he had in shooting the “Justice League,” but says the studio boss did everything he could to get Johns despite his allegations of ‘blatant racism’.
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“Despite Walter’s best efforts, the Justice League investigation was able to expose the racist, coercive, discriminatory and retaliatory conduct of Geoff Johns during his tenure at WarnerMedia’s affiliates. It also led to the more immediate separation between WarnerMedia and Joss Whedon,” Fisher wrote in his long Twitter statement. “While it may be legally and financially safer to phase out Geoff Johns silently, or to ‘leave’ Joss Whedon on his own initiative, I do not share any of these responsibilities.”
The star further said that what he experienced should not have happened and that it exposes the current ‘covered culture of Hollywood’.
“I maintain that Walter Hamada is unfit for a position of leadership – and I am prepared to submit to a polygraph test at any stage to support my claims against him,” Fisher wrote. “I do not know how many cases of workplace abuse Walter has tried to cover in the past, but hopefully the Justice League investigation will be the last.”
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He concluded by saying that he would be happy to pay the price of never revaluing the Cyborg character again if it means exposing Hamada’s actions.
In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter on Thursday, WarnerMedia chairman and CEO Ann Sarnoff supported Hamada in the fight.
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“I believe in Walter Hamada and that he does not obstruct or interfere with the investigation,” she said. “Furthermore, I have full confidence in the process and findings of the investigation. Walter is a respected leader, known by his colleagues, colleagues and I as a man of great character and integrity. As I said in Walter’s recent ‘I’m excited about where he’s taking DC Films and look forward to expanding the DC Multiverse with him and the rest of the team.’