Wonder Woman 1984

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by AquaParade

I wouldn't want to say "boo-yah" either, but when you sign a contract, take the job, and start spending the money, you do what the boss says.

Except he wasn't hired by Whedon and Johns, he was hired by Snyder. And like Affleck, he was bait-and-switched; both guys signed on to do a super-hero Action/Drama, and halfway through the project they were told "Now we're making an Action/Comedy". And both guys huffed on their way out the door for exactly that reason, among others. It's like being hired to paint a house and suddenly instead of that they tell you to scrub the toilets. They wouldn't have even signed up for the job if they knew what it was going to turn into. That level of manipulation in and of itself is a form of "abuse", depending on how you look at it.

I get what you're saying but it's not quite as simple as all that. Man, even without "abuse" I think the guy's got a right to his grievance, based on the sole fact that he was hired to shoot a movie, "contractually obligated" to do reshoots on said movie, BUT when he came back to work suddenly it's a completely different movie with a completely different director. He never signed up for THAT. I mean sure it happens but generally not to that extreme of a degree. And again, had he been TOLD "We're doing an Action/Comedy", it sounds like he never even would have gone out for the role in the first place. So that reframes a lot of things, in that context.

Sure, maybe the "abuse" was as little as Fisher saying, "Hey, but what about..." and them telling him "Dude, just shut up and read the lines so we can all go home." Maybe it WAS just that and nothing more. And maybe that seems trivial.

But again, I still think that's more than enough, I still think he's right, and I personally literally would have flipped a table over, flipped them off and gone home before putting up with any of that kind of sh*t. So he's STILL a better man than I am.

A lot of the fallout we've seen among the cast and crew regarding the "Justice League" project seems to quite simply come down to a lot of people saying, "I signed up Specifically and Only to make Snyder's movie, NOT Whedon's movie." And nobody who was involved seems very happy with how it turned out, they all just deal with it differently. And I think that's okay. But I don't think it's fair to any of the individuals involved to be dismissive about it in any case, regardless of how they've chosen to deal with it.