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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