Joss Whedon’s Lawyers Deny Ray Fisher’s Newest Allegations - Gizmodo

When Ray Fisher came forward with allegations earlier this year saying Joss Whedon created a toxic, abusive work environment on the set of Justice League, within a month, Warner Bros.

As some of Fisher’s colleagues—like Jason Momoa—stood by him and news broke that he was shooting new scenes for Zack Snyder’s Justice League rehash, it seemed for a while as if Warner Bros.

While this specific quote has since been removed from Forbes’ article since it first published (the only explanation given: “This story has been updated from its original version, including the wording of the original headline”), Fisher explained that, at some point, he was “informed that Joss had ordered that the complexion of an actor of color be changed in post-production because he didn’t like the color of their skin tone.” This quote, however, remains: “The erasure of people of color from the 2017 theatrical version of Justice League was neither an accident nor coincidence.”.

Fisher told Forbes it’s being overseen by a new third-party investigator, the same person who delved into accusations leveled against former Warner Bros.

While Whedon and his team have been silent in response to Fisher’s allegations, the Forbes story seemingly prompted a response from his legal representation that questioned the veracity of Fisher’s claims, shared by Forbes and the Hollywood Reporter.

They cited doubt over the fact that Fisher did not name specifically who told him about the manipulation of the unnamed actor’s skin tone and that Fisher admitted to only learning about said color manipulation after the fact.

Just to recap, Fisher’s alleging that he heard from another party that Whedon demanded alterations be made to an actor of color’s skin tone in post-production out of a distaste for their complexion, while Whedon’s team both denies this and insists that whatever color correction was done on Justice League was completely standard procedure.

That being said, there are a number of facts about Justice League’s production that stand out because of the allegations against Whedon.

So Fisher repeated his version of what someone told him that Whedon said