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Post by CrepedCrusader on Apr 6, 2022 0:38:40 GMT
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Post by politicidal on Apr 6, 2022 14:05:09 GMT
Deep fake it. No one will notice.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Apr 6, 2022 17:46:09 GMT
WB "pausing" future projects with Miller:
Ezra Miller Arrest Prompts Emergency Warner Bros. Meeting About Star’s Future
Exclusive: An insider says Miller had “frequent meltdowns” during production last year on ‘The Flash’ and described the actor as “losing it”
By Tatiana Siegel
Will Smith isn’t the only Hollywood star facing career backlash in the wake of a public outburst.
On March 30, Warner Bros. and DC executives held an emergency impromptu meeting to discuss Ezra Miller’s future with the studio following The Flash star’s recent arrest for disorderly conduct and harassment. According to a knowledgeable source, the consensus in the room was to hit pause on any future projects involving Miller including possible appearances in the DC Cinematic Universe.
The studio has more than a year before it has to make any hard decisions about a potential sequel to The Flash. Warner Bros. also has avoided making any key decisions on tentpoles ahead of Discovery taking control of WarnerMedia in a $43 billion mega-merger. WarnerMedia chief Ann Sarnoff announced on Tuesday that she is exiting the company as AT&T spins off its entertainment division to Discovery. Last month, Warner Bros. moved the Andrés Muschietti-helmed first installment The Flash — a production fraught with drama — from Nov. 4, 2022 to June 23, 2023.
One insider says Miller had “frequent meltdowns” during production last year on The Flash. While the insider stresses there was no yelling or violent outbursts, they described Miller as “losing it.” “Ezra would get a thought in [their] head and say, ‘I don’t know what I’m doing,'” the insider tells Rolling Stone.
According to the March 28 police report, Miller became agitated after patrons at a Hawaii bar began singing karaoke. Miller shouted obscenities and grabbed the microphone from a 23-year-old woman as she was singing and allegedly lunged at a 32-year-old man playing darts. The 29-year-old movie star was arrested and charged on both counts and was released on $500 bail. The incident took place at Margarita Village in Hilo, Hawaii, the day before Miller’s Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore castmates were celebrating that film’s world premiere in London.
Even more troubling, a local couple filed a temporary restraining order against Miller on March 29. The couple claimed that after Miller’s arrest, Miller burst into their bedroom and threatened them, with Miller saying to the man, “I will burry [sic] you and and your slut wife,” according to the report. The petition also alleges that Miller stole the woman’s passport and the man’s wallet, which included a social security card, driver’s license and bank cards. A judge granted a TRO the following day. The judge is expected to make a decision on whether or not to extend the restraining order by the end of the month.
The Hawaii incidents are the latest in a series of troubling events involving Miller. In April 2020, footage of the actor apparently choking a woman at an Iceland bar circulated on social media. The Justice League star was kicked out of Prikið Kaffihús bar, but no arrests were made. (Miller has never commented on the incident.) Sources say the Iceland footage gave Warner Bros. pause at the time, but Miller was not kicked off Secrets of Dumbledore like castmate Johnny Depp, who lost his libel case against a British tabloid, which had referred to the actor as a “wife beater.”
In January, Miller posted a since-deleted video on Instagram threatening a North Carolina chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The actor told members of the chapter to kill themselves with their own guns, otherwise “we’ll do it for you if that’s what you want.”
Miller shot Fantastic Beasts and The Flash back to back for the studio in London in fall 2020 and spring 2021, respectively. Given the positive buzz on early footage of The Flash, the film was expected to catapult Miller into a rarified group of actors who can carry a major box-office hit.
But the Hawaii incidents are expected to cause PR headaches for the star and Warner Bros. In the TRO petition, the couple noted that Miller “is famous and wealthy; this makes access to weapons much easier; as well as sending associates to harass the petitioner.”
Miller is known to have a fascination with weapons. During a 2018 cover interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Miller offered to show this reporter the crossbow from the film We Need to Talk About Kevin, in which the teen actor portrayed a high school killer. “You wanna see the real bow and arrow from Kevin, man? ‘Cause I got it right back there. I really do,” Miller said at the actor’s Vermont farm. “People usually don’t want to see it when I ask them. They usually say, ‘No, I prefer to not see that bow and arrow.’ And I say, ‘OK. It’s up to you.'”
During the interview, Miller also defended gun rights. “People need to protect themselves,” the actor said. In fact, Miller, who identifies as nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns, said they don’t have a problem with people owning semi-automatic weapons. “Nope.” That passage initially appeared in a sidebar story on the actor but was pulled at the behest of the actor’s publicist following a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
Miller first burst onto the scene as a teenager in Antonio Campos’ 2008 drama Afterschool, which centered on an Internet-addicted prep-school student who captures the drug overdose of two girls on video. The actor quickly landed at the top of wish lists among the major studios and was paid low seven figures each for both Fantastic Beasts and The Flash stand-alone. But Miller‘s behavior has become increasingly erratic in recent years, putting their career in expensive tentpoles that require lengthy publicity tours in jeopardy.
A source says Miller was never expected to attend the Fantastic Beasts premiere because their publicity plans for the film were limited given that they was saving contractual promotion commitments for The Flash. Fantastic Beasts hits theaters in the U.S. on April 15.
Rolling Stone reached out to Margarita Village, Prikið Kaffihús and the couple who were granted the restraining order but did not receive a response. Reps for Miller and Warner Bros. declined comment.
As for Smith, who also is a part of the DC Cinematic Universe as supervillain Deadshot, Warner Bros. and DC had been developing a Smith-led stand-alone film for Deadshot but had put it on the backburner long before his Oscars assault of Chris Rock. Smith, whose price tag was $20 million for Warner Bros. King Richard, priced himself out well before his controversy. Despite Smith’s apology to Rock, studios are reevaluating the actor’s involvement in various projects around Hollywood.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 6, 2022 18:08:16 GMT
Well that figures.
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Post by Lux on Apr 6, 2022 22:12:19 GMT
Can't believe they're thinking of stopping the upcoming Flash movie it's a bit late don't you think? While there's probably better actors who could play Flash what are they going to do? Have Michael Keaton do everything all over again in a recast movie? Not sure what Ezra's trauma is whether it's childhood rape or whatever you're starring in multi billion dollar blockbuster movies shut the fuck up and get help.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Apr 6, 2022 23:46:30 GMT
Can't believe they're thinking of stopping the upcoming Flash movie it's a bit late don't you think? While there's probably better actors who could play Flash what are they going to do? Have Michael Keaton do everything all over again in a recast movie? Not sure what Ezra's trauma is whether it's childhood rape or whatever you're starring in multi billion dollar blockbuster movies shut the fuck up and get help. I imagine it's too later to change the Flash movie, but after that, they'll either recast or just drop the franchise. It'd be funny if they end the movie on a cliffhanger to set up a sequel.
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Apr 7, 2022 14:21:41 GMT
Deep fake it. No one will notice. Recast him with Bruce Willis. Bruce won't notice. Too soon?
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Apr 7, 2022 14:23:54 GMT
Hell, the movie is about the multiverse, right? So just shoot a scene with a new actor replacing this bozo as the 'real Flash' or whatever and tack it to the end in a post-credit scene. Problem solved, and it's no dumber than the shit we've seen from this studio already.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 7, 2022 15:25:39 GMT
Can't believe they're thinking of stopping the upcoming Flash movie it's a bit late don't you think? While there's probably better actors who could play Flash what are they going to do? Have Michael Keaton do everything all over again in a recast movie? Not sure what Ezra's trauma is whether it's childhood rape or whatever you're starring in multi billion dollar blockbuster movies shut the fuck up and get help. I’ve seen online comments related to this claim that he’s been suffering from bipolar disorder or schizophrenia and WB doesn’t know what to do with him. But nothing concrete.
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Post by onethreetwo on Apr 7, 2022 15:41:48 GMT
I have a feeling this movie is just a one-off to do a soft reboot. No trilogy. The last dance, if you will. Maybe that's part of why he is acting out.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 8, 2022 5:20:32 GMT
I read a paradox about this... he's not big enough a star to be a viral disaster for WB... & yet shouldn't that make it easier to replace him? Weird.
I feel bad for him, it appears public stardom is not for him. At all. The choking thing seemed perverse, & yet that gaggle of asshats egging him on... filming him, his reactions... if someone with issues gets triggered, something bad like that is potentially there yes? I'm not defending, I'm just saying bullying someone like that like he's a f'n zoo animal... guy's not gonna smile & take a f'n selfie for you. I'm still shocked he's not faced legal issues about that one... has he? Utterly strange for a choking incident.
Anyways, with all due respect... does anyone care who plays The Flash? Ezra seemed levity balance for Zack's JL ensemble... & his Cut works well with him. As for standalone... are there no other Flashes available in the casting room??
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Post by onethreetwo on Apr 8, 2022 6:16:07 GMT
I read a paradox about this... he's not big enough a star to be a viral disaster for WB... & yet shouldn't that make it easier to replace him? Weird. I feel bad for him, it appears public stardom is not for him. At all. The choking thing seemed perverse, & yet that gaggle of asshats egging him on... filming him, his reactions... if someone with issues gets triggered, something bad like that is potentially there yes? I'm not defending, I'm just saying bullying someone like that like he's a f'n zoo animal... guy's not gonna smile & take a f'n selfie for you. I'm still shocked he's not faced legal issues about that one... has he? Utterly strange for a choking incident. Anyways, with all due respect... does anyone care who plays The Flash? Ezra seemed levity balance for Zack's JL ensemble... & his Cut works well with him. As for standalone... are there no other Flashes available in the casting room?? Warner Brothers could really use their own Tom Holland. Tom Hollands don't grow on trees though. Sadly.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Apr 8, 2022 15:06:01 GMT
I read a paradox about this... he's not big enough a star to be a viral disaster for WB... & yet shouldn't that make it easier to replace him? Weird. I feel bad for him, it appears public stardom is not for him. At all. The choking thing seemed perverse, & yet that gaggle of asshats egging him on... filming him, his reactions... if someone with issues gets triggered, something bad like that is potentially there yes? I'm not defending, I'm just saying bullying someone like that like he's a f'n zoo animal... guy's not gonna smile & take a f'n selfie for you. I'm still shocked he's not faced legal issues about that one... has he? Utterly strange for a choking incident. Anyways, with all due respect... does anyone care who plays The Flash? Ezra seemed levity balance for Zack's JL ensemble... & his Cut works well with him. As for standalone... are there no other Flashes available in the casting room?? Warner Brothers could really use their own Tom Holland. Tom Hollands don't grow on trees though. Sadly. Nor do 20 somethings afraid of perhaps being locked into a role for a decade &/or typecast. That's gotta be a flag for many.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 8, 2022 16:23:14 GMT
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Post by pennypacker on Apr 8, 2022 16:25:53 GMT
Probably not yet. They’ll wait and see how The Flash is received. Probably hoping everyone forgets about this by then.
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Post by thisguy4000 on Apr 8, 2022 17:27:06 GMT
WB denying that a meeting took place doesn’t necessarily debunk the original reporting. It could just be a PR spin.
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Post by Lux on Apr 8, 2022 22:06:47 GMT
Warner Brothers could really use their own Tom Holland. Tom Hollands don't grow on trees though. Sadly. Nor do 20 somethings afraid of perhaps being locked into a role for a decade &/or typecast. That's gotta be a flag for many. Walk up to any 20 year old in the street especially during this inflation crisis and ask them if they would be afraid to accept a $20 million a movie role for a decade or more... And then watch them slowly back away from you as if you've got a deadly Covid variant. That's how bizarre you sound.
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Apr 9, 2022 4:48:58 GMT
If anything, that just looks worse for them. You have one of your stars choking women out, getting arrested for bar disturbances, threatening to murder people, etc, and you're just letting it slide?
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Post by politicidal on Apr 10, 2022 0:14:11 GMT
WB denying that a meeting took place doesn’t necessarily debunk the original reporting. It could just be a PR spin. Oh, no doubt in my mind.
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Post by politicidal on Apr 13, 2022 14:59:22 GMT
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