What do you do when the star of one of your key franchises is in the news and appears more often in the news page than entertainment?

This is the problem facing Warner with the Ezra Miller case.

The star of

The Flash

, one of the future big pieces of the DC cinematic universe, which intends to compete with Marvel, has been illustrated for a few months by a disturbing behavior, chaining arrests and complaints, and generally showing contempt total for his star image.

What annoy the bosses of the studio, when they have just been accused of burglary, and that Vermont social services announced in the middle of the week that they had lost track of a woman and her three children, after they lived with Ezra Miller.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, the studio would now consider three options to settle the "case" Ezra Miller.

The first, more optimistic, would imagine that the interpreter of Barry Allen asks for the help of mental health professionals, and after a little rest, makes a media tour to explain – or apologize for – his recent behavior.

In this case, the release of

The Flash

could be planned as planned, even if Warner probably decided to do without its star for the promotion of the film.

Other Flash

The second scenario considered, would assume that Ezra Miller does not seek professional help and remains cloistered at home, as he has continued to do for a few weeks (they would currently be with his mother).

In this case, Warner would limit the release of the film and immediately start finding another actor to play the character.

And that's good, Flash has many iterations in the history of the superhero, it would suffice to choose one of them and recast its interpreter.

Finally, the third option, the most pessimistic by far, imagines a situation where Ezra Miller goes even further in his descent into hell.

In this case, impossible to release the film, and the studio should mourn the 200 million dollars invested in the project: out of the question, in fact, to find another actor and shoot new scenes to replace him. , insofar as the Barry Allen of the star is in almost all the sequences.

The Hollywood Reporter specifies that abandoning a film of this magnitude would be unprecedented in Hollywood history.

But the new management of Warner Bros.

Discovery has already proven that it's not one to worry about the fallout from such a decision: Last week,

Batgirl

, a $90 million movie, was canceled mid-cut.

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