Warner Bros. takes “remedial action” after Justice League investigation

Warner Bros. has completed its investigation into allegedly abusive behavior on the set of Justice League. It’s taken “remedial action,” but what kind?

And a long and messy saga comes to an end…maybe.

Earlier this year, Justice League star Ray Fisher (Cyborg) accused director Joss Whedon — who stepped in for Zach Snyder after Snyder was called away due to a family emergency — of “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable” behavior on set, although the details remain fuzzy. Things got fairly ugly over the subsequent months, with Fisher accusing Whedon of minimizing the roles of actors of color, Whedon denying it, Warner Bros. accusing Fisher of not working with the investigation, Fisher denying that, and so on.

But now, Warner Bros. says it has finished its investigation into Fisher’s accusations and taken “remedial action,” although there’s no word on what that action is. “We don’t know the details” has pretty much been the theme of this story since the beginning.

For his part, Fisher released his own statement on Twitter, saying that while some of the “remedial action” has already been taken, there’s more to come:

I don’t know whether Warner Bros. or Fisher and anyone will ever reveal the specifics, although it doesn’t escape my notice that Joss Whedon left his HBO show The Neves just last month (HBO and Warner Bros. are both owned by WarnerMedia), citing exhaustion.

While it’s not hard to believe that he could be exhausted making a complicated show under pandemic conditions, I can’t be the only one wondering if his leaving the series was the “remedial action” Warner Bros. took, with the exhaustion line as a cover. Fisher, at least, seems to think it is:

But again, this is pure speculation on my part, because we don’t have the details to confirm things one way or another. This is truly the quantum entertainment news story of 2020.

Meanwhile, you can catch Fisher in Zach Snyder’s retooled version of Justice League, the famous Snyder Cut, coming out on HBO Max next year.

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