Re: Zack Snyder's Justice League coming in 2021
I saw that report too that he signed on for 3 more movies with multiple appearances or cameos in other dc movies (like shazam 2 and black adam) but all the sites reporting it thus far arent very reliable. We need to wait on the official warner announcement - its very possible its true and they are just holding The announcement back not to start more of a **** storm with fisher who may claim its just another diversion tactic or maybe cavil asked them to withhold the official announcement out of respect for his colleagues current plight with the studio- or lastly they could be just waiting to announce it at the next dcfandom event this month or the nycc thing they are doing afterwards
I don't know how sympathetic Cavil would be to this whole situation, maybe not the sympathy you might imagine.
Henry Cavil had a great story he shared once about when he was a kid he met Russell Crowe. Crowe, realizing how passionate this boy was about acting, told him the truth. Overall, about the love of movies, but that when making movies you often get treated like ****, but they pay you really well. Where on drama/stage acting, you can get treated pretty well, but there is no money in it.
Cavil has been in the system for decades now. Seen actors flip out, burnt-out directors, overbearing producers...the works. Some films are better situations than others, with different people around you. But you push through the bad times and enjoy the good times. Sometimes you have Christian Bale snap on set and yell at a cast-member or Josh Trank not liking studio interference to any degree, and disappearing to a pot filled trailer.
This is Fisher's first movie, really his first hollywood appearance and its a 200+ million movie. It didn't go the way he wanted it too. Did he see actors being *******s, probably. Did he see directors snap and tell him to shut up and do things, probably. Did producers tell him to do the lines as written or he would get replaced, probably. I don't condone this type of behavior, but just trying to relate my understanding of what big budget movies can be like.
I think Cavil, if he could sit down with him, would probably tell him when your working with millionaires, they are at best quirky and at worst abusive monsters. But its one of the rare jobs on the planet where you can make hundreds of thousands, if not millions for a few months work, and provide you with opportunities 99% of the planet couldn't experience. The wisdom imparted to him as a kid that the more glitz and glamour something appears to have, their is a cost to it.
I have seen first hand working on commission for some people for wealth, it can be not a pleasant experience. They expect what they want exactly, and will throw out vague threats of lawsuits or other things sometimes to stress you out on a slight miscommunication. Obviously, the average customer can be a-holes, but there is a different experience when dealing with somebody who has millions in the bank.
Is Fisher doing the right thing? I don't know. I think it would have helped if he had done a couple of smaller movies, and had actors give him the wisdom they had. Movies can be massive projects, with stressed out people working for many hours.
The thing is, the other JL actors have more wisdom. Afleck is coming back as Batman. Cavil likely as Superman. ****, it isn't out of the realm of possibility Snyder makes another movie with WB. Things don't always go the way you wanted, but their is the future for things to work out even better.
Fisher says Whedon yelled at him on set, and that was unacceptable. Maybe it was. Probably not the first time the other actors heard a director yell. Whedon probably had producers barking at him behind close doors as well, doesn't sound like a good filming experience for any soul.
My hope is that Fisher and WB can put this behind them. The other actors are eager it seems to get back into WB/DC and make more movies. I wouldn't be shocked if their agents haven't used the Fisher situation to ink new and better deals for themselves. I think the more recent DC movies have been overall pretty darn good. But Fisher's first date with a hollywood movie didn't go well, and he might not have any interest in hollywood for a long time, so I can understand him not wanting to move on.
