After saying goodbye x-Men '97Former Marvel showrunner Beau DeMayo, just before the premiere of the show's first season, the studio seemed ready to move forward with a new creative team. But following DeMayo's recent claims that Marvel had unfairly stripped him of Marvel credits, x-Men '97The upcoming second season of The Dark Knight Rise, the company says he was fired due to the “egregious” findings of an internal investigation.
Although DeMayo was fired earlier x-Men '97 DeMayo, who is openly gay, hinted that Marvel's decision was prompted specifically by fan art, which depicts him as the x-Men's Cyclops without his signature blue spandex and was posted during Pride Month on June 4. DeMayo also said his firing was “the latest in a troubling pattern I suffered through” while Working for Marvel in x-Men '97 and the besieged Blade movie.
But in a concise way x-men-97-creator-claims-marvel-gay-pride-1235976534/”>Declaration to The Hollywood ReporterMarvel said DeMayo's firing came as a result of an investigation that found he had engaged in “egregious” behavior toward other employees. According to anonymous sources cited by The thr“sexual misconduct” was part of the reason DeMayo was fired from Season 1, and x-men-97-beau-demayo-marvel-disney-exit-1236041972/”>Deadline information that the removal of his credits is a consequence of his breach of a separation agreement with Marvel.
Following Marvel's claim that it had sufficient reason to let DeMayo go, DeMayo's attorney, Bryan Freedman, x-men-97-1236042316/”>published a statement defending his clientclaiming that Disney is “secretly attempting to plant illegal and abusive elements in contracts that silence the truth.”
The statement continued: “As we will explain through detailed examples one by one, the Disney model is very clear and a repetitive illegal pattern. Once challenged or exposed, the manipulation and redirection of blame towards anyone willing to tell the truth begins through a well-oiled international publicity machine.”
