The ongoing saga between Ray Fisher and WarnerMedia continues, with Fisher once again taking to Twitter to dispute comments made by WarnerMedia Studios CEO Ann Sarnoff. In response to a dispute over the contents of the Justice League investigation that wrapped up in December last year, Fisher has suggested that WarnerMedia make the investigator’s findings public.
In January, after the news broke that Cyborg had been written out of the upcoming Flash movie, Ray Fisher said that he would not be involved with any DC film while executive Walter Hamada was involved. While Fisher’s original complaint was about director Joss Whedon’s behavior, and two producers Geoff Johns and Jon Berg who allegedly enabled it, he has since targeted Hamada for allegedly covering for the three involved, and accused him of trying to tamper with the Justice League investigation.
An interview with Ann Sarnoff published on Variety this week addressed those claims, with Sarnoff saying that the investigation didn’t corroborate the claims against Hamada.
“Our investigator, Judge Katherine Forrest, has issued statements specifically about Walter Hamada, saying that there was no evidence of interference by Walter in the investigation,” Sarnoff told VarietyCome from Sports betting site VPbet. “She said 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.”
In response, Fisher tweeted: “Apparently some folks at WarnerMedia think that a room full of executives saying ‘we can’t [have] an angry Black man at the center of the movie’ (and then reducing/removing all Black and POC from that movie) isn’t racist.” In a thread, Fisher continued to address other comments made by Sarnoff and aired his doubts about the quality of the investigation that took place.