{"id":76918,"date":"2020-09-17T14:42:04","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/ray-fisher-wb-used-ben-afflecks-batman-return-to-distract-fans-from-claims-of-on-set-abuse\/"},"modified":"2020-09-17T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T14:42:04","slug":"ray-fisher-says-wb-used-ben-afflecks-batman-return-to-distract-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2020\/09\/17\/ray-fisher-says-wb-used-ben-afflecks-batman-return-to-distract-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray Fisher Says WB Used Ben Affleck’s Batman Return To Distract Fans"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Just days before Warner Bros.’ DC FanDome event began,\u00a0director Andy Muschietti confirmed Ben Affleck will reprise his role as Batman<\/a> opposite Ezra Miller in The Flash<\/em> film. Now, Ray Fisher claims the announcement was part of a publicity stunt on the part of Warner Bros.\u00a0in response to\u00a0his allegations\u00a0regarding Joss Whedon’s behavior on the set of Justice League<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Justice League<\/em> completed production, director Zack Snyder left the project\u00a0due to a personal family tragedy and Warner Bros. enlisted Avengers<\/em> director Joss Whedon to oversee the film during the post-production phase. However, Whedon was later tasked with directing reshoots that significantly altered Snyder’s original version of the\u00a0Justice League, <\/em>prompting a three-year fan\u00a0campaign\u00a0to convince Warner Bros. to release the “Snyder Cut” after the theatrical edition debuted to mixed reviews and poor box office figures.\u00a0Months after\u00a0Zack Snyder announced his cut of Justice League<\/em> would be released on HBO Max in\u00a02021, Ray Fisher, who portrayed Cyborg in the DC film, retracted his earlier praise for Whedon and accused former DC Films CEO Geoff Johns and producer Jon Berg of enabling the filmmaker’s abusive treatment of the cast and crew<\/a> during the aforementioned reshoots.<\/p>\n

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In response to Fisher’s allegations, Warner Bros. launched an investigation into the claim of abuse but later accused the Justice League<\/em> star of being uncooperative<\/a> with the third-party investigator the studio had hired. Now, Fisher has taken to his official Twitter account to outline why he believes Warner Bros. allowed the original Vanity Fair report on Ben Affleck’s return to the role Batman to be published earlier than\u00a0anticipated in hopes of\u00a0shifting the focus away from his comment on the investigation.\u00a0“Ben returning as Batman was clearly meant to be revealed at DC FanDome. I\u2019ll give you one guess as to why [Warner Bros.] likely jumped the gun,” Fisher wrote in a post that included\u00a0photos highlighting the timestamps of his Tweet on the\u00a0investigation\u00a0and the VF article, which was published just hours after his comments.<\/p>\n