This guy is a one man crime wave.
He should be happy that the Discovery leadership team are such penny-pinchers, otherwise they'd probably reshoot his stuff with a new actor at this point. I don't know that he's notorious enough to turn audiences off seeing the movie, but there's no way Warner Bros. can send him on the usual publicity tour ahead of the movie's release.
I think the issue here is that Miller is getting into trouble on a frequent basis, and every time they are in the news it seems to be for something worse than the last time. If they had one single incident and then got help that they clearly need, then WB could probably move forward with them. But this is clearly not an isolated case.
In this very specific case, I wouldn't call it penny pinching. Miller is playing the titular character in a huge superhero movie. I assume they are probably in every scene or close to it. Replacing them would essentially mean reshooting the film from scratch. The only time I remember something like that happening before is Back to the Future. In that case, filming hadn't wrapped yet. There was a lot to reshoot with Michael J. Fox, but not the whole film. And of course Back to the Future cost way less money than The Flash likely will.
I agree with this assessment, but I'm not sure what WB is supposed to do. In The Secrets of Dumbledore, Miller had a supporting role in a large ensemble. So it didn't seem weird for other cast members to handle press on that movie. Because Miller is playing the title character this time, their absence will be conspicuous. WB does have the Michael Keaton card to play because longtime fans will be excited to see his return as Batman. But even that can only go so far when your movie is called The Flash.
It'll be weird but Warners is going to have to make either the female lead or another of the Flashes, the face of the press junket. At this point, Miller is so clearly off the wall that he might go on Jimmy Kimmel and punch him in the nose or threaten to kill the audience or turn into a werewolf.
You had me at "trimming the film to 90 minutes".
I agree with that completely. There is no question that they are done in Hollywood. But whether Miller cares or not, WB is still left holding the bag.
Well, I knew there had to be a good explanation for all of this.
At this point, they might wish that they hired Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein producing.
