Ray Fisher confirms that he has been removed from the Flash movie

The fight between Justice League star Ray Fisher and DC Films president Walter Hamada has another… What peak? Nadir? Hypnotic clash? Choose tonight, as Fisher announced he has been formally removed from a planned appearance as Victor “Cyborg” Stone in Andy Muschietti’s long costume Flash movie. This is coming, not quite unpredictably, after a statement from Fisher late last year in which he said stated he would refuse to work on a film that Hamada has produced, and Hamada is still tight at DC Films, so yes.

In a long and passionate Twitter post, Fisher explained his problems with Hamada in his clearest language yet, accusing him, in a phone call in June, of deliberately ignoring and downplaying problems the actor had with former DC Films head Geoff Johns, who Fisher has accused, along with producer Jon Berg and director Joss Whedon, of racist and abusive behavior during the filming of Justice League. This phone call – which in Fisher’s description also included a “tacky self-conscious joke” about Hamada hoping not to end up on Fisher’s Twitter –seems to have been the origin of Fisher’s later claims that Hamada happily ‘thrown’ [Whedon and Berg] under the bus ”in favor of Johns, who was itself pushed back hard by a statement from Warner Bros. in September.

Granted, most of the above is old news in this long and often annoyingly vague story. However, this is where it gets a bit juicier: Fisher then accuses Hamada of deliberately concealing Johns’ behavior, including allegations of tampering with the lengthy third-party investigation into the filming of the film, which shut down last month but we are publicly unaware of the details from. In his statement, Fisher – which supposedly has given the conclusions of the study-claims the investigation “Was able to expose Geoff Johns’ racist, coercive, discriminatory and retaliatory behavior during his tenure with WarnerMedia’s affiliates” and claimed it “led to a more immediate separation of roads between WarnerMedia and Joss Whedon.” Again, we didn’t see any result of the investigation – all we got then was WarnerMedia notice “Corrective Action” has been taken-but the timeline is doing loosely assign to Whedon leave abruptly are HBO Max series The Nevers back at the end of November 2020.

Fisher ends his statement by calling Hamada “unfit for leadership” and declaring himself willing to take a polygraph to support all of his claims. WarnerMedia and DC Films have not commented so far – or even confirmed Fisher is out of the movie so faralthough they would reportedly worked on plans to deregister him The flash for a while.