TLaunches one of the most popular fan campaigns of all time, launched by Warner Bros. Pictures Zack Snyder’s Justice League“Aka” The Snyder Cut “on HBO Max Thursday.
Despite the fiery campaign to reveal what the original director’s film would have looked like before Joss Whedon intervened, Snyder’s cut received mixed reviews. The film also debuts after Warner Bros. chose to be with DC Films president Walter Hamada – whom Cyborg actor Ray Fisher accused of trying to undermine a misconduct investigation into abusive and racist behavior Justice League set to protect his “friend and former co-chair” producer Geoff Johns. (A statement from a WarnerMedia representative said, in part, that “an extensive investigation was conducted by an outside law firm, led by a former federal judge who assured WarnerMedia that there were no impediments to the investigation”).
But discussions about the film’s release seem to ignore another controversy that erupted last spring – one that, in some ways, seems to have been lost in the early days of the pandemic-induced quarantine.
In early April, a video appeared online in which flash actor Ezra Miller appeared to suffocate a woman and threw her to the ground.
The video, made out of the snow, lasts only seven seconds. Miller, dressed in a red coat, shouted, “Did you want to fight? Is this the business? The woman approached them, waving her arms and apparently smiling. Miller grabs her by the neck and pushes her back against a metal container before pushing her to the ground, while another voice – apparently the camera operator’s – says, “Whoa, bro, bro, bro.”
The camera lowers before the clip ends abruptly.
The video appeared on Twitter and Reddit, but was largely treated as a rumor. But variety managed to confirm the incident with a source shortly after the video materialized.
The incident took place in front of the Prikið Kaffihús bar and café in Reykjavík, Iceland. A source from the watering hole confirmed at variety that the incident took place on April 1 at about 6 pm, when some “quite insistent” fans approached the actor.
Although some online came to believe at the time that the video was some kind of prank or perhaps taken out of context, the source said variety it was a serious altercation. They also confirmed that the person involved was Miller. (The Daily Beast reached out to one of the video’s original posters and Prikið for more details, but received no response.)
Finally, the source said, Prikið staff escorted Miller from the premises.
“Although some online came to believe at the time that the video was some kind of prank or maybe taken out of context, the source told Variety that it is a serious altercation. ”
Reykjavík Metropolitan Police Press Officer Gunnar Rúnar Sveinbjörnsson told The Daily Beast in an email that police had not been called to the scene and that no one had been arrested or taken into custody.
Warner Bros. representatives Pictures and HBO Max did not respond to The Daily Beast’s request for comment.
Miller, who uses their pronouns, first met them in early 2010 – first with the 2011 psychological thriller We need to talk about Kevin, and a year later with the drama of adulthood The perks of being a Wallflower. After a terrible return The Stanford Prison Experiment In 2015, Miller had a major breakthrough in 2016, debuting both as The Flash in Suicide Squad and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but also as Credence Barebone in Fantastic animals and where to find them.
So Miller remains a key ingredient in two massive Warner franchises. Fantastic animals will launch the third tranche next year (minus Johnny Depp), and then in 2022 will bring Miller the independent vehicle Flash-in which they will play alongside Kiersey Clemons as Iris West. Michael Keaton is also on board to resume his role as Batman.
As Miller’s star continues to grow, the silence around the video will become more visible.