Ezra Miller's credit removed from upcoming Awards circuit film

An upcoming Salvador Dalí film at the 47th Toronto Film Festival will see Ezra Miller’s name omitted from the credits amid controversy.

The 47th Toronto Film Festival recently selected the Mary Harron-helmed film Dalíland as its movie for the closing night. The film follows the life of Salvador Dalí throughout two different stages of their life. Ben Kingsley plays an older Dalí in the 70s while Ezra Miller plays the younger version of Dalí. Despite Ezra Miller’s major role in the film, they have reportedly been excluded from the film’s credits in the TIFF press release.

In a 2021 Cannes Market interview with Deadline, Harron told them, “We started looking at Dalí in the 1970s, the older Dalí, with flashbacks to the younger Dalí, which are rendered like an old movie. That format really excited me. Ezra had like three days between finishing Fantastic Beasts and starting The Flash, and insisted on coming and doing our film. The story is all played out through this kind of Nick Carraway figure [Christopher Briney], who comes into Dalí’s life as an assistant and sees it all.”

“We’re excited to premiere Mary Harron’s Dalíland as this year’s closing-night film,” Toronto Film Festival CEO Cameron Bailey said in a statement today. “We couldn’t be prouder that Harron is a Canadian who has taken her singular explorations of iconic eccentrics to the world stage. In portraying the wild relationship between Salvador Dalí and his partner, Gala, Harron continues to keep moviegoing interesting and engaging.”

Aside from Kingsley and Miller, Dalíland stars Barbara Sukowa, Rupert Graves, Alexander Beyer, Andreja Pejic, Mark McKenna, Zachary Nachbar-Seckel, Avital Lvova and Suki Waterhouse. The screenplay comes from writer John C. Walsh and the film is produced by Edward R. Pressman of Pressman Film, David Sacks of David O. Sacks Productions, Daniel Brunt, Chris Curling of Zephyr Films, and Sam Pressman.

Dalíland makes its world premiere on September 17th at Roy Thomson Hall and the festival as a whole will run from September 8th to September 18th.