Beau DeMayo and his authorized group have responded to feedback and reviews of his firing from Disney’s X-Males ’97, calling out the corporate for “gaslighting” and saying authorized motion is coming.
Bryan Freedman, who represents DeMayo and has represented different Hollywood purchasers over wrongful termination circumstances, known as out Disney in an announcement to Deadline on Friday. In it, Freedman stated that the corporate is following the same playbook of attempting to “silence the reality” from folks.
“Having a lot expertise with Disney, the playbook is all the time the identical. Household pleasant on the surface, however secretly making an attempt to plant unlawful unconscionable gadgets in contracts that silence the reality and cease the worker/buyer from asserting fundamental constitutional rights,” Freedman instructed Deadline.
Freedman went on to say that the pair will clarify “via detailed examples” that Disney was within the fallacious. Freedman didn’t deal with any particular allegations however did take umbrage with Disney’s practices.
“As we’ll clarify via detailed examples which we’ll roll out intimately one after the other, Disney’s mannequin may be very clear and a repetitive unlawful sample,” stated Freedman. “As soon as it will get challenged or uncovered, the gaslighting and redirection of the blame towards anybody prepared to inform the reality begins via a global effectively oiled publicity machine.”
What occurred between Beau DeMayo and Disney?
DeMayo surprisingly exited his position as head author of X-Males ’97 in March, just some days earlier than the present’s premiere. On the time, DeMayo was stated to have completed writing each Season 1 and Season 2 of the collection, and explanations for his departure from the collection had been scarce.
Issues got here to a head this week, nonetheless, when DeMayo took to social media and alleged that his writing credit score for X-Males ’97 had been stripped after he posted X-Males fan artwork on Instagram for Homosexual Pleasure. DeMayo wrote, “I’ll have extra to say quickly however should take a step again from social media to discover a safer area for me to be out, proud, and nerdy. Keep tuned.”
In response, Marvel instructed The Hollywood Reporter that DeMayo had been terminated following an inner investigation that exposed “egregious” findings. Subsequent reviews from Jeff Sneider famous that DeMayo allegedly despatched images of himself to a number of younger male workers members. The images noticed DeMayo in “varied states of undress” whereas “carrying superhero costumes and placing sexually suggestive ‘hero’ poses that may very well be used as ‘inspiration’ for the present.”
