After staying out of the spotlight leading up to The flashstar Ezra Miller made a rare public appearance at the DC movie’s premiere on Monday, posing for photos and making brief remarks to Hollywood audiences.
‘I love you, maestro. I think you’re amazing, and I think your work is monumental,” Miller said, addressing director Andy Muschietti in their first public remarks since August 2022. Last year, they cited “complex mental health issues” in a blanket apology for behavior in the past. including entering and strangling a woman in Iceland in an incident that was caught on video.
Miller met with Warners film executives Pamela Abdy and Michael De Luca after that apology, and on Monday night, Miller thanked them, along with Zack Snyder and Deborah Snyder, who initially cast them as The Flash in 2014.
Along with Abdy and De Luca, Miller also thanked David Zaslav, CEO of Warner Bros. .”
Miller didn’t do any press for the movie, and as with many things in The Flash, it wasn’t a typical Hollywood premiere. While stars and executives walked the carpet, the premiere didn’t feature interviews with talent, including Ben Affleck and Sasha Calle, as well as Zaslav and DC Studios co-heads Gunn and Safran.
In recent years, Warners has occasionally held premieres without interviews. Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore’s Secrets was one such movie, as it faced controversies surrounding JK Rowling, the Johnny Depp recast, and the then-recent arrest of Miller, who also starred in that franchise. jokerthe 2019 film starring Joaquin Phoenix, also premiered without interviews as the film was the center of controversy after the victims of the 2012 The dark knight rises filming in Aurora, Colorado, publicly shared his concerns about the film.
Prior to release, The flash was touted as one of the best superhero movies of all time, with Zaslav and Gunn pumping it up in the press. Reviews were more sober, with a solid 71 percent score on Rotten Tomatoes.
It’s been a long road The flash. Miller was first brought in to direct the film in late 2014 and will star in 2017 Justice League. Along the way, multiple top talent in Hollywood tried to crack a Flash solo movie with a coming and going of writers and directors, including The Mandalorianfrom Rick Fukuyama and Dungeons & Dragons: honor among thieves duo John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. Phil Lord and Chris Miller wrote a treatment in 2015, and Miller attempted to write their own version of the film with comic book writer Grant Morrison.
In the end, it was Muschietti who cracked the code, along with DC favorite Christina Hodson, who wrote the script, and his producing partner, Barbara Muschietti.
“We never thought this would happen because it was a real marathon,” Muschietti said, noting that they spent three and a half years on it, and others waited even longer. “We hope it was worth the wait.”
