Out Actor Ezra Miller To Play The Flash In "Justice League" Movies



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Warner Bros. also announced its full slate of Justice League films through 2020, including a standalone Cyborg movie, starring black stage actor Ray Fisher.



Ezra Miller at the Cannes Film Festival on May 12, 2011


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Actor Ezra Miller (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) will play The Flash in Warner Bros. expanding slate of superhero feature films based on DC Comics, the studio announced Wednesday. This makes Miller — who identified himself as "queer" in an 2012 interview with Out — as the first out LGBT actor to play a major superhero in a feature film.


Miller will star in a standalone movie of The Flash in 2018, after presumably appearing in Justice League Part One in 2017 from director by Zack Snyder, who is also helming 2016's Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice. (This is not to be confused with The CW's TV series The Flash, which stars Grant Gustin, and exists in a separate fictional universe.)


Warner Bros. also announced a full slate of feature films based on DC Comics, including a 2020 standalone film for Cyborg, starring Broadway actor Ray Fisher. It is the first time a black actor has headlined his own superhero movie based on a comic book since 2004's Blade: Trinity. The studio also confirmed that Jason Momoa will star in Aquaman in 2018, and a new Green Lantern movie will open in 2020 (although that has no star attached as of now).


The full slate of DC Comics films include:


Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Snyder, opening on March 25, 2016

Suicide Squad, directed by David Ayer, for 2016

Wonder Woman, starring Gal Gadot, for 2017

Justice League Part One, directed by Zack Snyder, with Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, and Amy Adams reprising their roles, for 2017

The Flash, starring Ezra Miller, for 2018

Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa, for 2018

Shazam, for 2019

Justice League Part Two, directed by Zack Snyder, for 2019

Cyborg, starring Ray Fisher, for 2020

Green Lantern, for 2020


Developing… more soon.



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