Fired X-Men ’97 Creator Beau DeMayo Responds to Marvel

The quality betwixt Marvel Studios and X-Men ’97 creator Beau DeMayo—who was abruptly removed from the amusement successful March, conscionable anterior to its Disney+ premiere—has a caller update. Today, DeMayo spoke retired against his erstwhile bosses, denying the allegations that led to his firing and leveling his ain criticisms. It’s not an antithetic adjacent measurement successful a back-and-forth betwixt parties successful quality with each other, but what is antithetic is the information that DeMayo aired his grievances via OnlyFans.

Although OnlyFans markets itself arsenic a wide subscription level for a assortment of net contented creators, it has developed a estimation arsenic a tract for sharing explicit and softcore intersexual content. DeMayo antecedently utilized the level during his clip moving astatine Marvel to stock non-explicit images of himself; though the leafage was brought down astatine immoderate constituent aft his exit, DeMayo has revived the leafage to code his ineligible disagreement with Marvel.

According to Deadline, DeMayo streamed a 30-minute effect connected OnlyFans earlier contiguous successful which helium claimed, “The rumors being dispersed astir maine online are lies, and they are offensive, but much concerning is that they’re a smear run designed to discredit my credibility successful bid to screen up the egregious prejudicial misconduct stretching from prime unit members connected X-Men ’97, each the mode each the mode to the apical astatine Marvel Studios.”

DeMayo further asserted that “being gay, Black, and unfastened astir it astatine Marvel Studios” was a notable origin successful his abrupt departure. As Deadline reported, DeMayo said contiguous that “the offenses Marvel and others person leaked are designed to distract you from what truly offended them … Everything they person done since past has been designed not conscionable to soundlessness maine and smear me, but to crush maine and to punctual maine to cognize my role.”

Deadline besides notes that DeMayo’s lawyer is seeking to person “an allegedly ‘illegal non-disparagement provision’ removed from the writer’s exit bundle documents,” claiming that Marvel has removed DeMayo’s sanction from the credits for the upcoming 2nd play of X-Men ’97 after helium spoke retired pursuing his firing. It quotes the filing arsenic follows: “DeMayo, who intends to item his anterior employment with Marvel via OnlyFans, bore witnesser to and endured rampant discriminatory and harassing behaviour during his years-long tenure with the Company. Well alert that DeMayo possessed copious cognition regarding Marvel’s illicit and unsafe employment practices, the Company sought to soundlessness DeMayo arsenic portion of his forced ouster.”

(Deadline’s station notes that Disney had yet to respond to the trade’s petition for a comment; io9 has besides reached retired to Disney, and volition update should we get a remark successful response.)

The information that OnlyFans is the spot DeMayo plans to springiness further updates whitethorn beryllium the strangest wrinkle here. As noted earlier, DeMayo’s relationship has antecedently been non-explicit; he’s present utilizing it arsenic a mode to monetize his announcements, benignant of similar a blog that’s down a paywall. What bash you marque of this choice, fixed the circumstances and context?

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