THE FLASH Stars Ezra Miller and Kiersey Clemons Comment on The Movie's Director Struggles

As you all know by now, Dope director Rick Famuyiwa has left Warner Bros. and DC Films' live-action The Flash solo film due to creative differences, marking the second time a director has either left or been removed from that project. (The first director attached was Pride and Prejudice and Zombies writer Seth Grahame-Smith.) I'd imagine that'd be a tough thing for lead actors Ezra Miller and Kiersey Clemons to hear, and maybe especially Clemons, who was cast as Iris West after working with Famuyiwa on Dope. She recently spoke with THR about the director leaving the film, and she's not thrilled about it:

"Rick was one of the main reasons I wanted to do the movie. So him not being a part of it is obviously very upsetting to me. All I can do is give it up to the gods. Let's see what happens. Let's see who's going to jump in. Ezra and I are going to do what we promised to do from the beginning. No matter who the director is, I am going to do what I think Iris should be."

Meanwhile, Miller spoke with Collider and though he referred to the situation as a "tragic relay race," it seems he still has a bit more hopeful outlook on things:

"These processes are complicated, and I think it can—from afar—appear to be, as you say, something interpersonal or dramatic. That is rarely the case. These are groups of people taking the development of projects extremely seriously, and the teams are changing all the time. There’s often a lot of flux in who the team of the production of a film is before that production starts, and in this case, you hear about it, because it’s a critical figure—the directors that have been coming on and leaving. For me, it’s sort of a tragic relay race, and we’ve had a couple really incredible people carry this baton, and their marks are left on that baton, and the work that they’ve given to the project will certainly be represented in whatever the final product comes to be."

The Flash is scheduled to hit theaters on March 16, 2018, and filming was supposed to start in March of next year, but one report indicates it will likely be delayed because Miller has another movie to shoot next summer. We'll have to wait and see if the studio can find a replacement director to step in before that delay happens and possibly keep this thing on track.