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Justice League star Ray Fisher responds to former DC Films head Walter Hamada stepping down, celebrating the exec's departure from the studio.
After two years of criticizing the studio executive, Zack Snyder's Justice League star Ray Fisher is opening up about former DC Films head Walter Hamada stepping down. Following years of working on the stage, Fisher found his breakout film role as Cyborg within the DC Extended Universe, debuting as the character with a cameo in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice before going on to largely appear in both the theatrical and alternate cuts of Justice League. While reception was divided on his first appearance and the theatrical cut of the latter, Fisher scored widespread praise for his performance in Zack Snyder's Justice League, an extended version of the film edited together after years of fans campaigning for it.
Despite this positive reception, Fisher's time in the DCEU was seemingly short-lived when he began accusing Joss Whedon, whom rewrote and reshot much of the theatrical version of Justice League, of toxic behavior on the set, as well as Hamada for protecting the former Avengers director. Multiple other of his stars would later step forward in his defense, including Gal Gadot, who recalled Whedon threatening her career, while Fisher offered detailed accusations about Whedon's attempts to minimize Cyborg's story in the film. Whedon would also see his former Buffy the Vampire Slayer cast and crew speak out against him, and release a letter defending himself, which ultimately fell on deaf ears, leaving many in Fisher's support to turn their attentions towards Hamada, whom he accused of defending Whedon and other high-ranking studio executives involved.
This week not only brought the release of Dwayne Johnson's Black Adam, but also saw DC Films head Walter Hamada step down from his position at the studio. Ray Fisher, who had been vocal in his criticism regarding the studio exec, subsequently took to his Twitter to celebrate Hamada's departure, once again calling him out for his efforts to "protect his toxic and discriminatory colleagues," and sharing his hopes to never deal with him again.
Given the intensity of headlines surrounding both Fisher and Hamada in the years since the Zack Snyder's Justice League star took to accusing him of being a dangerous enabler, Fisher's elation about the former DC Films head is largely understandable, namely those who have supported him throughout his search for justice. The question for many audiences now is whether Fisher could make a return to the DCEU as Cyborg now that Hamada has left, given the actor has stated multiple times he refused to be a part of any Hamada-associated production. Some may already be speculating about his possibly showing up in next year's The Flash movie, given he was originally intended to reprise his role for the multiverse-based story, and Ezra Miller recently returned to set for additional photography.
