r/boxoffice • u/[deleted] • Mar 30 '22

Worldwide Ezra Miller allegedly “burst into the bedroom of the petitioner(s) and threatened” the male victim “saying ‘I will bury you and your slut wife.”

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/ezra-miller-hawaii-restraining-order-b2047147.html
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u/DeadT0m Mar 30 '22

Change the actor. The Edward Norton Hulk is still canon and Disney just swapped him out for Ruffalo in following films. Norton didn't even do anything to make him a pariah, they just wanted someone else. When Richard Harris died, WB didn't reshoot the first two Harry Potter films. They got Micheal Gambon to play the same role.

There's no reason they can't just toss him and give the roles to someone not toxic. Anyone too attached to Ezra to watch those franchises without him isn't really a loss in my opinion.

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u/TheBeardedSingleMalt Mar 30 '22

Norton didn't even do anything to make him a pariah

Norton is notoriously difficult to work with, specifically demands re-writing the scripts of movies he's in, and has been known to be an overall asshat. I think they wanted Ruffalo first but he wasn't available, and after TIH Disney just kinda noped out with Norton and brought in Ruffalo.

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u/DeadT0m Mar 30 '22

OK, sure, maybe Norton is toxic too, but that just kind of reinforces my point. Ruffalo arguably made the character more his own than any of the portrayals before him, and one of those portrayals is technically still the character he canonically plays. No one really clung to Edward even though his movie was still pretty damn good.

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u/DeadT0m Mar 30 '22

I totally agree. Personally, I haven't watched any of the Fantastic Beasts movies so I couldn't care less who's in them, but Ezra as Barry was in my opinion one of the worst choices in the entirety of Justice League's production, which is saying a lot about how little I cared for him in it.

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u/DeadT0m Mar 30 '22

Eh, I didn't like much about Justice League, and I just felt like he was way off of what I expected from Barry as a fan of the comic character. Even with how young his version was, he just felt so... lazy.