“Justice League” star Ray Fisher is taking issue with WarnerMedia after its top boss refuted claims that an investigation did not corroborate his claims.
The actor who plays Cyborg in the superhero movie became a lightning rod for the studio, which subsequently launched an investigation after his July 2020 tweet called out Joss Whedon’s “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” behavior.
The Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award winner took over the movie after original director Zack Snyder left due to the death of his daughter.
Although WarnerMedia announced in December that the investigation concluded and “remedial action was being taken,” the studio’s CEO Ann Sarnoff dismissed Fisher’s allegations that Warner Bros. executives Geoff Johns and Jon Berg “enabled” Whedon’s behavior and that another, Walter Hamada, attempted to interfere with the investigation.
On Monday, Variety published an interview with Sarnoff , who stated that their investigator, Judge Katherine Forrest, found that “the cuts made in the Joss Whedon version of ‘Justice League’ were not racially motivated.”
“We took it very seriously, so we hired one of the top investigators out there and gave her a tremendous amount of leeway,” she furthered.
The top-ranking executive also said there was “no evidence” that Hamada interfered with the investigation.
Once he got wind of the comments, Fisher took to social media to hit back at Sarnoff.
“Apparently some folks at @WarnerMedia think that a room full of executives saying ‘we can’t an angry Black man at the center of the movie’ (and then reducing/removing all Black and POC from that movie) isn’t racist,” he wrote in a five-tweet response.
Fisher pushed for the conglomerate to make its investigation public, after Sarnoff denied that he was bound by a non-disclosure agreement that stops him from sharing specifics about the abusive behavior he faced during the filming of “Justice League.”
“Rather than trying to convince people on what the ‘Justice League’ investigation DIDN’T find — how about you start telling them what it DID?” Fisher tweeted. “The public is a lot smarter than what you’re giving them credit for. The proof is there.”
To date, neither Fisher or WarnerMedia has ever given any details of what happened on the set of “Justice League.”
But what’s undeniable is his star-turn in the Snyder cut of the film – currently streaming on HBO Max.
To the delight of many DC Comics Universe fans, the entire story as Cyborg, which had been cut from the “Justice League” movie three years ago, is now being seen. The four-hour, R-rated version is truer to Snyder’s vision for the characters.
Following Fisher’s claims about Whedon, more actors have come forward against the Hollywood heavyweight.
