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Beau DeMayo won’t let this go. He was head writer on X-Men ’97 when it became a critical smash and really resonated with fans, and then he wasn’t. After working on Blade and being a supervising producer on Moon Knight, and while flying high with the animated X-Men relaunch, he was suddenly terminated.
A March 2024 internal investigation led to the trades reporting alleged misconduct and the studio issuing a statement saying:
“Given the egregious nature of the findings, we severed ties with him immediately and he has no further affiliation with Marvel.”
It was fast. It was brutal. Now, according to social media posts, DeMayo has said he has no faith in the upcoming X reboot from the MCU and claims that Feige and the team “resented” their success with X-Men ’97 as it showed Marvel why and how they were failing, and what they had to do to fix it.
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He didn’t hold back in his posting:
“Under my leadership and vision, my team and I created a project that resonated with the MCU’s core audience in a way that Kevin and his Parliament have so far failed to do in over a decade. Instead of looking at what my team and I did and learning to replicate our focus on canon and deep character work, they smeared me, tactically threatened the crew not to speak out while continuing to still abuse them, and have done everything to act like #xmen97 wasn’t a hit.
Remember, I was told by a TOP exec at Marvel last year that Kevin resented my work and the show because FANS like you were using it as a referendum on how Kevin’s MCU is failing. I was told by several artists on the show that they had wanted to post or include blurbs commending me for my leadership and vision and all I poured into the show, only for Marvel to censor or reprimand them.’
X-Men ’97 gave Marvel Studios a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score and gained DeMayo an Emmy nomination, so it looks like he was doing something right.
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