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I saw a thread on twitter of people dogpiling Geoff Johns basically saying that because he had creative differences with Ray Fisher he’s somehow a racist. Can anyone explain this to me? In terms of cast line-ups, Geoff Johns is one of the most diverse writers of comics of all time.
This announcement brought back some bad blood from a lot of people, in particular Ray Fisher, for things that happened during the filming of Justice League. According to Fisher, Johns was one of a number who harassed him and used racist phrases towards him, though not much has stood out since then.
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Fisher initiated his campaign on June 29th, 2020 when he posted a tweet retracting his previous quotes praising Joss Whedon as Zack Snyder's replacement at Comic-Con in 2017. Fisher has since revealed the comments from the cast during the panel came from talking points provided by Warner Bros. after they also lied to the cast to tell them Snyder wa...
Joss Whedon remained largely quiet after the release of Justice League, issuing no official responses to anything Justice League-related through the entirety of the fan campaign for the Snyder Cut and also stayed silent on Fisher's initial accusations. Warner Bros., however, issued a statement on September 4th, 2020, characterizing Fisher as being ...
Before the WarnerMedia investigation took place, one of the most explosive chapters in the saga was Fisher's interview with Forbes detailing specific attacks against Whedon, followed by statements from Whedon's camp, and a Forbes' editing of the article and apparent firing of the author. The interview initially included Fisher's accusation that Whe...
Prior coverage of Fisher's campaign largely focused on directly on Fisher and his claims, but after Fisher's accusations of racism in the Forbes interview, the story started seeing a very different reaction as Fisher was almost been sidelined while follow-up coverage examined how Whedon, Forbes, and others handled the situation. In addition to the ...
The tide had shifted against Whedon, but the real final blow came in a January 2022 interview with Whedon where he tried to sweep the many accusations against him under the rug. Instead of improving his image, he proved to be tone-deaf, generally lacking in self-awareness, and provided a number of quotes that made him out to be even more problemati...
Whedon's reputation was already pretty tarnished thanks to the poor reception of Justice League, claims made against him by his ex-wife, Kai Cole, and a the reveal of a problematic Wonder Woman script he'd written long before Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot's movie entered production, so his schedule wasn't exactly full when Ray Fisher began his campai...
Apr 11, 2021 · Geoff Johns wanted a phrase that didn't even originate in the comics to be uttered by Ray Fisher and pushed for that, more than he did for John Stewart as Green Lantern.
Mar 2, 2021 · But when you have studio executives (particularly Geoff Johns) saying, "we can't have an angry Black man at the center of the movie"—and then those executives use their power to reduce and...
- Kaitlyn Booth
Apr 7, 2021 · The actor, who accused the film's director Joss Whedon of "gross, abusive" behavior on Twitter in July, made allegations against other top executives involved in the superhero film to The ...
Mar 2, 2021 · In a tweet posted Tuesday morning, Fisher accused former DC Films co-president Geoff Johns and producers Toby Emmerich and Jon Berg of “racially discriminatory conversations” focused on his...
