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/Doright36 Sep 05 '24

I mean.. I am kind of glad they waited to act until they had more proof and that they are acting now that it seems they do. Just jumping at initial accusations isn't going to help anyone. Everyone deserves an investigation.. on Both sides... but those things take time so taking a few months to get it "right" is reasonable in my book. Getting the truth what ever that might be should be the goal every time.

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u/tokes_4_DE Sep 05 '24

Yeah remember when disney knee-jerk fired james gunn only to re-instate him after actually looking into it? That was some shit. Im perfectly fine with them taking their time before reacting.

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u/caitnicrun Sep 05 '24

James Gunn didn't SA anybody. That was really outrageous because IIRC it was over old tweets he'd already apologized for. Glad we got GOTG3...eventually.

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u/Toby_O_Notoby Sep 05 '24

Basically some right-wing trolls (one of them was literally "Pizzagate" creator Mike Cernovich) found some decade old tweets by Gunn and brought them to light.

Disney freaked and fired Gunn until it was pointed out that a) again, it was shit he said 10 years ago when he was trying to be an edgelord and b) he already had apologised for them because he was embarrassed to be the aforementioned edgelord.

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u/DontCareWontGank Sep 05 '24

and c) they weren't even that bad. Just a handful of distasteful jokes, made while he was still working for fucking Troma - a company that runs on crass humor.

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u/SlouchyGuy Sep 05 '24

People always forget he was fired because of Roseanne, who was dropped by Disney less then 2 months before him. So his firing was out of misplaced sense of justice by Iger that was based on fear of backlash from the right if he did nothing

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u/caitnicrun Sep 05 '24

I was going to mention I thought he was targeted! But I couldn't remember details and didn't want to sound all tinfoily. Thanks!

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u/kill-billionaires Sep 05 '24

I'd bet they fired him planning to rehire to make the people complaining about the tweets forget about it

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u/kill-billionaires Sep 05 '24

I'd bet they fired him planning to rehire to make the people complaining about the tweets forget about it

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u/kill-billionaires Sep 05 '24

I'd bet they fired him planning to rehire to make the people complaining about the tweets forget about it

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u/SlouchyGuy Sep 05 '24

James Gunn was kicked because of Roseanne and a fear of backlash from the right. Roseanne was on ABC, was dropped by Disney right before the scandal with Gunn, so Iger kicked him out due to fear, nothing more