Joss Whedon: Director Buffy and Justice League denies wrongdoing

American director Joss Whedon has denied misconduct allegations on production sets such as Buffy, The Vampire Slayer, and The Justice League. Actors Gal Gadot and Ray Fisher previously claimed that Weeden misbehaved with them in the 2017 superhero film.

In a lengthy New York magazine article published Monday, Whedon denied threatening Gadot's career. "I didn't threaten anyone. So who did that?" said the 57-year-old man. 

He told the publication that the pair fell out over a scene that Gadot, who played Wonder Woman in the film, wanted to remove.

She said she jokingly told him that he should tie her body to the train tracks and do it to her corpse and that the Israeli actress did not understand that this meant she threatened to tie him to the rails.

But Gadot told New York Magazine that there was no such misunderstanding. "I got it perfectly," he told the newspaper. Gal Gadot and Ray Fisher during Comic-Con International 2017 in San Diego

His Justice League partner Ray Fisher first claimed in 2020 that Weeden's behavior in the film was "rude, rude, unprofessional and utterly unacceptable." In an interview with Forbes, Fisher said he was told that Weeden used color correction to change actors' skin tones because he didn't like actors' skin tones.

However, this claim was removed from the interview because the magazine said it was primarily based on third-party information. In addition, the entire article was updated after the editors of Forbes noted a "lack of journalistic rigor and fairness."

When told New York magazine that he covered the entire film, including the faces of all the actors, and spent hours talking to Fisher about his makeover. He said the conversation was friendly and respectful and refuted Fisher's claims that nothing was "true or worthy of discussion."

"We're talking about the forces of evil," Whedon told Fisher. The director, who significantly downplayed Fisher's role in the film's editing, added, "We're talking bad double actor." Fisher took to Twitter on Monday to respond to the director's recent comments, describing them as "lies and nonsense."