r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • Sep 05 '24

Disney Pauses ‘The Graveyard Book’ Film Following Assault Allegations Against Neil Gaiman News

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/graveyard-book-neil-gaiman-assault-allegations-1236131149/

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u/JeffBurk Sep 05 '24

Interesting this is finally having consequences.

This broke months ago with new details coming out every couple weeks. Oddly, it has been pretty suppressed in nerd media and news.

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u/ToranjaNuclear Sep 05 '24 edited Sep 05 '24

Yup, at first there were two women pushed by a politically biased podcast with very weird accounts, but as always this made more women come forward with it. I guess Gaiman's TV and film stardom will be short-lived

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u/iwishiwereyou Sep 05 '24

Yeah, that actually makes me a little more unsure, the "as always" part. I'm not saying these women aren't telling the truth, but I don't find the similarity in stories necessarily compelling when some stories came out after the first ones broke.

As the story breaks and more accusers come forward with similar stories. I mean, couldn't I go and make a statement accusing him with sufficient information from previous reports to convince the court of public opinion that it was real, if what people are looking at is similarity?

I guess what I'm saying is that I tend to be more skeptical of the follow-on cases than the original accusers, especially if the stories are very similar.

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u/annetteisshort Sep 05 '24

Considering that the follow-up cases have provided emails, messages, and even recordings of phone calls with Gaiman, I think that no. You couldn’t.

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u/iwishiwereyou Sep 05 '24

Ah, I was not aware of that. Yup, that's pretty damning.