Marvel says X-Men ’97’s old showrunner was fired over ‘egregious’ investigation findings

After dismissing X-Men ’97’s erstwhile showrunner Beau DeMayo just earlier the show’s play 1 premiere, the workplace seemed acceptable to determination connected with a caller originative team. But pursuing DeMayo’s caller claims that Marvel unfairly pulled his credits from X-Men ’97’s upcoming 2nd season, the institution says helium was fired implicit the “egregious” findings of an interior investigation.

Though DeMayo was fired earlier X-Men ’97 aired, his sanction was inactive going to beryllium included successful the show’s upcoming 2nd play due to the fact that of the pre-production enactment helium contributed to the project. But successful a thread posted to his X relationship connected Thursday, DeMayo accused Marvel of stripping his play 2 credits distant owed to his posting instrumentality creation of himself. DeMayo, who is openly gay, implied that Marvel’s determination was driven specifically by the instrumentality art, which depicts him arsenic the X-Men Cyclops without his signature bluish spandex and was posted during pridefulness period connected June 4th. DeMayo besides said that his firing was “the latest successful a troubling signifier I suffered through” portion working for Marvel connected X-Men ’97 and the embattled Blade movie.

But successful a concise connection to The Hollywood Reporter, Marvel said that DeMayo’s firing came arsenic the effect of an probe that recovered him to person engaged successful “egregious” behaviour towards different employees. According to anonymous sources cited by THR, “sexual misconduct” was portion of wherefore DeMayo was fired from play one, and Deadline reports that the removal of his credits is simply a effect of his breaching a separation statement with Marvel.

Following Marvel’s assertion that it had ample crushed to fto DeMayo go, DeMayo’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, put retired a connection defending his client, claiming that Disney is “secretly attempting to works amerciable unconscionable items successful contracts that soundlessness the truth.”

The connection continues: “As we volition explicate done elaborate examples which we volition rotation retired successful item 1 by one, Disney’s exemplary is precise wide and a repetitive amerciable pattern. Once it gets challenged oregon exposed, the gaslighting and redirection of the blasted toward anyone consenting to archer the information starts done an planetary good oiled publicity machine.”