Brett Ratner's Relationship With WB Ends After Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Brett Ratner ’s relationship with Warner Bros. has ended following accusations of intimate harassment made against the film producer . sooner this workweek , Ratner became the latest Hollywood personality to be hit with allegation of sexual misconduct , withthe accounts of six different womendetailed in a damnatory exposé . Similar to the Kevin Spacey position ( House of Cardsseason 6is being put on holdamidst allegations against the actor ) , these revelations have impacted Ratner ’s in - development project .

soon after the story wear out , the director’sHugh Hefner biopic was proclaimed to be idle in the water , but that ’s scarcely the only side effect . Now , Ratner ’s production company has lost its deal with WB .

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Varietyreports that WB has break-dance off all ties with Ratner . The studio was enunciate to be"reviewing the situation"as soon as the allegations develop . Ratner ’s yield party RatPac Entertainment has been a funding partner with Warner Bros. since a 2013 , with the studio apartment renting function place on the Warner Bros. muckle . premature co - yield between Warner Bros. and RatPac admit the line of DC moving-picture show , includingSuicide Squad , Wonder Womanand the forthcomingJustice League . The deal is set up to expire on March 2018 , with no watchword on whether or not it will be renewed .

But Ratner personally is finish up with the studio , reel the development as his own determination . “In light of the allegations being made , I am choosing to personally tread forth from all Warner Bros.-related activities,”his argument reads . “I do n’t want to have any possible negative impingement to the studio until these personal subject are purpose . ”Ratner antecedently had a first - look deal with Warner Bros. , which will certainly not be renewed ; the director will also vacate his personal business office distance on the studio apartment ’s lot . eventually , Ratner will end his involution with WB ’s adaptation of the novelThe Goldfinch , which he was originally set to develop .

Ratner has cultivated an image as a playboy , but is primarily infamous for his crass assertion . His most public remark was one on Howard Stern ’s show , where he stated that"rehearsal is for fags,“an incident that lead Ratner to step down from producing the 2011 Academy Awards ceremonial occasion . Ratner , in the same Howard Stern visual aspect , also stated that he"banged"actress Olivia Munn , who is one of the six women who stepped forrad with these accusations . Munn ’s graphic story of Ratner approaching her while eat shrimp with one hired man and she-bop with the other was ab initio revealed in her 2010 Bible , Suck It , Wonder Woman ! : The Misadventures of a Hollywood Geek .

For this one - timeX - Mendirector , it in truth appear to be the last stand . While Ratner and his attorneys continue to traverse the allegation , many others view this as the director eventually learn his comeuppance . Just this week , allegations against Kevin Spacey , Dustin Hoffman and Andy Dick have arrive out , with consequences for most of these player thus far — in the viewing of the Harvey Weinstein revelations , the entertainment industry seems to be clean house .