X-Men '97 (Disney+)

[lucas_lee]

Basically the same thing that got him bounced from the Witcher, does nobody learn?

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

Man, what the hell is with X-Men being an attractive property for sex pests to direct adaptations of it?

[thechase]

DeMayo is lawyering up

variety.com/2024/tv/news/beau-demayo-disney-x-men-97-fired-response-1236109263/

[lucas_lee]

Aug 17, 2024 1:18:56 GMT -5 thechase said:

DeMayo is lawyering up

variety.com/2024/tv/news/beau-demayo-disney-x-men-97-fired-response-1236109263/

It's going to be hard to defend if the rumors are true that it's also why he got canned from The Witcher

[thechase]

Just realized DeMayo hired Spacey's lawyer.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Aug 17, 2024 9:03:11 GMT -5 thechase said:

Just realized DeMayo hired Spacey's lawyer.

Yeah, that tracks.

[Bang Bang Bart]

Aug 17, 2024 9:03:11 GMT -5 thechase said:

Just realized DeMayo hired Spacey's lawyer.

Not content with pulling from Spacey’s defence of his actions, Demayo decides to do this…

[The Heartbreak TWERK]

Constantly tweeting about how you're going to be vindicated just makes me think of Ray Fisher all over again.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Aug 17, 2024 19:27:15 GMT -5 The Heartbreak TWERK said:

Constantly tweeting about how you're going to be vindicated just makes me think of Ray Fisher all over again.

Funny how we're still waiting on him to drop all that evidence he said was coming back in 2021...

[Limity (BLM)]

Aug 17, 2024 19:27:15 GMT -5 The Heartbreak TWERK said:

Constantly tweeting about how you're going to be vindicated just makes me think of Ray Fisher all over again.

Oh man, that was one of my favorite running gags in the Snyder thread. I had forgotten all about it. Much like the world had forgotten all about Ray Fisher.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Aug 18, 2024 2:12:20 GMT -5 Limity (BLM) said:

Oh man, that was one of my favorite running gags in the Snyder thread. I had forgotten all about it. Much like the world had forgotten all about Ray Fisher.

You mean his seminal role as a dude who shows up halfway through Rebel Moon: Chapter One and dies before the end didn't leave the world wanting more Ray Fisher?

[thechase]

Two other X-Teams will be in season two

collider.com/x-men-97-season-2-more-x-teams/

[thechase]

It looks like at least one person quit X-Men '97 over the whole DeMayo situation, but in an e-mail put forward to The Streamr website, Demayo's attorney is attempting to spin that Disney fired him because he was becoming more successful

thestreamr.com/2024/08/20/beau-demayo-lawyer-responds-x-men-97/#google_vignette?utm_content=cmp-true

[Renslayer]

Beau just can't help himself...

[Ryback on a Pole!]

So... how long until he starts a right-wing podcast and claims to be "cancelled" by the left? That seems to be the go-to fallback plan for f***nuts who f*** up their career by being sex offenders.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

So the guy who was fired for forcing his sexual content on unwilling employees is making anybody who wants to access "the whole truth" subscribe to his sexual content in order to do it.

He's nothing if not consistent, evidently.

[Mozenrath]

Sept 5, 2024 0:49:37 GMT -5 Ryback on a Pole! said:

So... how long until he starts a right-wing podcast and claims to be "cancelled" by the left? That seems to be the go-to fallback plan for f***nuts who f*** up their career by being sex offenders.

He also might make plans to go to Anime Matsuri, that'd be par for the course.

[thechase]

Sept 5, 2024 1:36:57 GMT -5 Mighty Attack Tribble said:

So the guy who was fired for forcing his sexual content on unwilling employees is making anybody who wants to access "the whole truth" subscribe to his sexual content in order to do it.

He's nothing if not consistent, evidently.

This is clearly the evolution of Naked News.

[thechase]

Variety have a breakdown of all of DeMayo's allegations here

DeMayo alleges that his identity as a gay, Black man was “weaponized by Marvel execs and select crew members to undermine me” and use “the same dog-whistling stereotypes favored by bigots for decades: He’s big, he’s intimidating, to opinionated, angry, emotional, flamboyant, dramatic, a pervert.”

DeMayo alleges that he fought Marvel executives over his desire to adapt storylines from previously published X-Men comic book runs rather than create brand new stories for the show, as they desired, and he was called “uncollaborative, too difficult and too much of a fanboy.” “They openly resented me fighting for the fans,” he says.

DeMayo alleges that executives “painted” him as “abusive” when he declined to have the character of Jubilee “make gang signs or paint the sky with plasmoids in the shape of middle fingers.”

DeMayo alleges there are “near criminal working conditions” for VFX and animation artists at Marvel, and that people who worked on “X-Men ’97” were “rapidly losing weight [and] having mental breakdowns,” and when he emailed Marvel leadership about these issues, he experienced “retaliation.”

DeMayo alleges he notified a producer on “X-Men ’97” that “one of our leads is having a potentially exploitative sexual relationship with a PA,” and the producer buried his report and informed the individual in question of DeMayo’s complaint.

He alleges the same producer on “X-Men ’97” “repeatedly” joked to crew that he showed DeMayo’s “thirst traps on Instagram to his underage son, and his kid is wondering, ‘Do they need to buy me shirts for Christmas?”

DeMayo alleges that an artist on “X-Men ’97” “repeatedly denounce[d] all men as jerks,” and accused DeMayo of “failing the cause” because he kept a male character, Cyclops, as leader of the X-Men.

DeMayo alleges that a lead artist on the show told him at a company barbecue in 2021 “that her husband felt that I must get a lot of dick based upon how I look.”
When DeMayo requested contacting producers of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” about promoting “X-Men ’97,” he alleges he was told “by Marvel that they wouldn’t want to alienate certain audiences.”
DeMayo alleges that Marvel’s PR department listed “homosexuality as a hot button issue to avoid alongside school shootings, the Gaza conflict and abortion.”

DeMayo alleges that Marvel executives joked in front of DeMayo that they’d hired “a young Wesley Snipes” to write on “Blade.” (“One of the reasons I wanted to do this video is so that you can see that Wesley Snipes and I look nothing alike,” he adds.

variety.com/2024/tv/news/beau-demayo-accuses-marvel-disney-misconfuct-x-men-97-blade-1236130803/

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Honestly, I can definitely buy some his allegations as being true. Dones't stop him potentially being a shit himself.

"DeMayo alleges that Marvel’s PR department listed “homosexuality as a hot button issue to avoid alongside school shootings, the Gaza conflict and abortion.”"

I mean, this is the same Disney who made sure the first gay kiss in Star Wars was a blink and you'll miss it moment that they can easily remove from the Middle Eastern market... yet they still gave themselves a a massive pat on the back for it as if they had done something groundbreaking when Buffy had gay kisses like 20 years before...


"DeMayo alleges there are “near criminal working conditions” for VFX and animation artists at Marvel,"

And this, I can definitely see being true. Disney treating employees like garbage, colour me shocked.