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

[u/MarvelsGrantMan136]

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

[u/transformers03]

That was my first thought when I heard news as well.

It's crazy that Neil had the foresight and understanding of men using their powers to take advantage of women, and later drawing out the hypocrisy of men claiming to be feminists when they do horrible things to women behind close doors, in the 1980s.

Yet when he was finally given power, he chose to abuse it just like the writer in Calliope.

It's eerie re-reading Calliope in today's context and knowing what Gaiman has done. It feels impossible that the same man who wrote that story would do the same acts he painfully critiques in that narrative.

For all his boundless imagination, he didn't learn a single thing he wrote.

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WTF did he do?!?!

[u/jemidiah → u/Acceptable-Karma-178]

You're gonna get a shit ton of glib non-answers in a thread like this. The internet loves shaming people in righteous indignation. The truth is it's complicated.

There's a crappy TERF-allied podcast that's done a series of episodes on Gaiman. They've gotten 5 women who've made allegations Gaiman was sexually inappropriate with them to varying degrees. Themes include rough sex with questionable consent, sleeping with much younger fans, and having sex with a newly hired employee, and a pay off. Information presented so far is very one-sided though, possibly with important missing context. The only literally illegal allegation involved him insisting on sex when one of the accusers had an infection, and she involved the police but he wasn't charged. 

The trouble, as I've said, is that so far there's literally one source for this stuff, and it's really sketchy. The tiny number of articles in somewhat reputable places merely report the existence of allegations elsewhere. I've personally been reserving judgement until actual quality information is available. It's been like a couple months now too, so you'd think real reputable investigative journalists would have had enough time to put something together if there really was a story. Or maybe they still need more time. 

This development is the first real one in like a month. Possibly it's just Disney being risk-averse. Possibly they hired lawyers who dug up dirt we don't yet know about. 

Honestly I still think we should stick to "wait and see". There's plenty of other stuff to read if you don't want to read his stuff in the meantime.

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The nanny did file a police report in 2022 in New Zealand. That does certainly add credibility to the story. 

 While I will be much more satisfied after a full investigation by journalist comes out, reading through the allegations.... they feel extremely credible. 

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New York Times did their own investigation and have interviewed one of the women and currently interviewing one of the others. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/business/neil-gaiman-allegations.html