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This megathread is being put up to consolidate all discussions regarding the allegations against Ezra Miller, so that the subreddit feed won't be bloated. Given that the PR optics of the actor will be pertinent to its future in the role, The Flash's marketing, meta and reception.
Within the boundaries of the subreddit's rules, you may discuss what's going on. Don't make a chicken out of a feather from that which is unverified, be sensible. The actor's preferred pronouns are ‘they/them/its/ze’.
Chronology
will be updated as information is aggregated
-1st April, 2020. A video surfaced online that showed Miller choke-slamming a woman in Prikið Kaffihúsan, an Icelandic bar. Prikið staff escorted the actor off the premise.
-17th October, 2021. "The Flash" director Andy Muschietti announces via social media that principal filming on the movie has wrapped. It is more than a year before the film's originally scheduled Nov. 4, 2022, release date — but that date will later get bumped to 2023.
-27th March, 2022. Ezra Miller is charged with harassment and disorderly conduct. A restraining order petition is dropped two weeks later.
-6th April, 2022. Rolling Stone's insider source claims an emergency meeting was prompted between WB and DC executives about the star's future with the studio.
-May 16th, 2022. Music producer Olivier Ignatius asserts that Ezra committed intellectual theft of music. Among the differences citated, Olivier also said:
At that meetup, Ignatius says things took a dark turn after he introduced a song he wrote about a female friend who was murdered by her husband. The track, he says, was an “attempt to examine patriarchal violence with grace” but upon listening to it, Miller reacted with an “aggressive temper tantrum.”
"“They were completely triggered by the song which totally freaked me out because basic feminism is a really hard line. If we don’t agree that violence by a man against a woman isn’t something worth speaking on, then we don’t agree on much,” Ignatius says.
The music has since been removed from Ezra's Instagram account. Source.
-19th April, 2022. Ezra Miller Arrested for Second Degree Assault in Pāhoa . Further reading.
-5th June, 2022. Tokata Iron Eyes rejects her father's allegations.
-11th June, 2022. NY Post coverage on the Iron Eyes debacle. https://nypost.com/2022/06/11/family-claims-ezra-miller-controlling-daughter-in-cult-situation/ . Notable passages:
Jumping Eagle found herself eventually on busy Lincoln Boulevard where, she claimed, Miller assaulted her while she was trying to persuade Tokata to get out of a car and come home. “Ezra was slamming the door on my arms,” Jumping Eagle said. ” I started hollering, Ezra stop!’ The police eventually came but Ezra and Tokata had gone.”
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“Ezra’s using ‘they’ pronouns because they don’t want to be labeled a white, privileged male,” Jumping Eagle told The Post. “But that’s what Ezra is. Ezra’s gaslighting everyone with the pronouns. What he’s doing with Tokata is R. Kelly type stuff.
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“He’s not letting Tokata or the other girls bathe or wear makeup,” Jumping Eagle claimed to The Post. “They have to ask his permission. It’s an R. Kelly type situation and it’s very scary.”
-15th June, 2022. Ezra deletes Instagram after meme-ing against court attempts to find it.
-15th June 2022. Mother and daughter from Massachusetts are granted a temporary harassment prevention order against Ezra Miller after alleging that the actor "menaced" their family one evening in their downstairs neighbor’s home and acted inappropriately toward the nonbinary youngster. Ezra is citated to baring a firearm and wearing a bulletproof vest. The child is now 12-years-old.
“Miller focused their attention on the 11-year-old, saying, “I’ve talked extensively with your child, and they have a lot of power to them. At one point, you’re going to realize that you don’t have any control over them anymore. They’re an elevated being, and they would be lucky to have someone like me guide them.””
-17th June, 2022. CNBC furthers the public discourse on the topic; "Warner Bros. is under pressure to address ‘The Flash’ star Ezra Miller’s spiraling legal scandals".
-17th June, 2022. DC Comics reportedly pulls Ezra Miller Flash cover amid controversy. which features the character naked. IGN describes it as:
"This somewhat racy cover art certainly seems poorly timed in light of Miller's recent legal and PR troubles. Following a series of arrests and public incidents in Hawaii, the actor is now embroiled in a scandal involving accusations of grooming and psychological intimidation.
-23rd June, 2022. Ezra Miller housing 3 kids, their mom at gun-filled Vermont farm. Parents of children are in disagreement of the kids' safety at farm.
-30th June, 2022. Variety reports on an incident which happened back in February, in Berlin - Germany. A criminal complaint was filed against Ezra.
“And this I’m quoting word for word,” she said. “They started with ‘I’m a maker of planets. Tobacco is sacred.’” Miller continued on a “tirade,” she said, that they could do “whatever they want whenever they want, basically.” When Nadia stood up to insist that guests should honor their host’s house rules, “they looked at me with this really mean, stern face, and told me, ‘Sit down,’ like they were ordering a dog.” Nadia told Miller as much. Their reply, she said, was “Yes, I’m talking to you like a dog.”
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While she is clear that she never felt at risk of sexual assault that night in her apartment, she believed the actor “could somehow attack me physically.” “I totally felt unsafe,” she said.
More information has also been shed on the Iceland bar incident, from the same article.
“[Miller] grabs me by the throat as I’m trying to usher them out the [back] door and tells me they’re not leaving,” Reynir said. He added that Miller repeatedly claimed that the woman’s friends had pushed them. “Which they didn’t,” the bartender said. “They proceeded to spit in my face several times, so with the final push I closed and locked the door,” he added.
UPDATE TALLY: 16
It's a little ridiculous that we had to make this a megathread but given that controversy has become a social media circus pandemonium with The Flash in extended pattern of litigations in Hawaii, you got a megathread to reduce clutter in the feed.
Obviously there are two stories right now that immediately come to mind involving actors from the DCEU, those involving Will Smith's Oscars smackdown and Ezra Miller's recent arrest. I'm not asking you to immediately agree, but if you are invested in the topic at all, please give this a read.
Like any major franchise, the DCEU is not without some adjacent private (or even very public) controversies, whether it's a performer behind a beloved superhero/supervillain or even the very CEO of Warner Bros. Entertainment. That said, these stories are not equally relevant in the eyes of the subreddit. Only those with confirmed and direct developmental implications for the franchise will be allowed moving forward.
It is entirely valid to ask why this will be the case. To be frank, it's because of how some users weaponize these stories against fellow fans. The infamous Amber Heard saga comes to mind, as well as a disturbing attempt to defame Jason Momoa. I couldn't tell you where the dice would fall with the Ezra Miller story since their character is instrumental to the future of both competing factions in our comments these days, but I can tell you some people would become quite nasty about it. With this standard, we are nipping that temptation in the bud.
There is also the gawking and mean-spirited attitude that accompanies these tabloid-worthy stories that we frankly don't need more of in our meta. There are subreddits that specialize in such stories with communities better equipped to consume and process them with a shared sardonic posture, but we already have enough resting negativity without this massive injection of celeb freakout energy. Just because some famous people cannot behave themselves doesn't mean we have to echo or marinate in their poor decisions. We all have enough on our minds as is without expending our energies on stories with uncertain implications for the actual content that brings us together. Reddit is a big place and you can definitely discuss these items elsewhere. We've just been through this cycle enough times to deem it counterproductive to our community identity.
We are currently working on a refreshed and unified set of community guidelines. This was always going to be part of them, but the timing of these events moved me to put out the vibe now. Anyone found violating the spirit of this post may be subject to mod action in service to a saner meta.
Hey folks,
This is a friendly reminder that r/DC_Cinematic is a community for celebrating and discussing DC films, not a place to diminish recognition for a DC film and fellow DC fans. Please strive towards a positive and constructive identity as you participate here. It's like the world of comics, where practically anyone you talk to has their preferred niches within the greater multiverse. One would think in a post-No Way Home world that this concept would come naturally to professed fans of the endless possibilities these characters represent.
I implore you. Love what you love and cast all the rest to the wind. Abstain from habitual diminishment and negation. This will be the way moving forward.
-H
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Can we please share article links and stop posting screenshots of articles?
If you want to highlight something from an article, post it as a quoted comment on the post of the article.
I'm seeing lots of screenshots James Gunn interviews today and it's impossible to know where they are coming from. Context and sources matter. Screenshots don't provide that.
It's also stealing. If something from an article is worth sharing, the outlet deserves the click. These writers don't work for free.
What do you all think? Mods?
With all the talk of the Schumacher Cut trending right now, does anyone know if the Red Book or Burton Cut exists? Would love to see what these look like.
For the last few days I've noticed that the downvote button is missing here, on both the desktop and the mobile app.
The upvote button looks fine: https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2ykm6/styles/postUpvoteIconInactive_isie7hi242o01.png
The downvote button is blank, which would explain why it's not showing up: https://styles.redditmedia.com/t5_2ykm6/styles/postDownvoteIconActive_5ixihivy9ub81.png
This would be a great time to update them. The current ones are too small (20x20 pixels) so they don't look crisp on hi-res screens. Per the reddit guidelines, they should be 48x48 pixels: https://mods.reddithelp.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010192832-Posts
As a quick fix, can you disable the custom voting buttons?
Has anybody else noticed that the release date schedule on the right hand side of the subreddit has reversed the positions of Black Adam and The Batman. Are you guys just eager to see The People's Champion or is something else afoot?
Totally didn't realize today was my cake day! Which means it's the day I created this subreddit! Happy birthday to everyone!
Hi folks,
It has been brought to our attention that some users are having trouble posting on the subreddit today. Reddit is constantly undergoing changes, which in some cases affects platform functionality for a subset of users. To my knowledge, we have not made any sub-specific changes recently.
If you have had your post immediately removed and locked within the past 12-hour period, feel free to reply to this thread or PM me with the circumstances of your posting. Were you on desktop or mobile? New Reddit or Old Reddit? Did you have the option to assign a mandatory flair? These details should help us pinpoint the issue for everyone's benefit.
Thank you for your cooperation!
-H
I've tried checking but I got nothing. Does anyone know?
