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Ray Fisher Wants WarnerMedia To Make The Justice League Investigation Public

The latest in the dispute between Ray Fisher and Warner Media sees the Cyborg actor calling for greater transparency.

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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 Variety. "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.

In his last tweet, Fisher suggested: "Rather than trying to convince people on what the Justice League investigation DIDN'T find--how about you start telling them what it DID?" As made public by Fisher at the end of last year, Warner said that the investigation would lead to remedial action, but didn't specify what action or who was involved.

For his part, Fisher hasn't made his specific allegations public, though multiple parties have mentioned that the actor is no longer under NDA and is now free to do so. A representative for Fisher told Variety "Mr. Fisher is no longer under NDA and will comment further when appropriate to do so."

While we can't be certain what was behind the restructuring of Justice League, it is true that Zack Snyder's version of the film contains a whole lot more of Ray Fisher's Cyborg than Whedon's theatrical cut did--though with a four-hour runtime, Snyder had the flexibility to include more character-building moments for most of the main cast.

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