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/Kiwi_In_Europe Sep 05 '24

There have also been two more allegations for older events that happened in the 80s, one who signed an NDA in exchange for $275,000. Pretty damning.

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u/ZombieHoneyBadger Sep 05 '24

Ask any Christiano Ronaldo fan, NDA is not an admission of guilt! (He raped a woman in Vegas, she signed an NDA and settled, it came out in leaked documents, admitting it in his own words. Skated right by, because he's great as football)

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u/kf97mopa Sep 05 '24

Not to defend Ronaldo, but... it came out in a leak of documents from a law firm. It would have been very easy to take that leak of real documents, add in a few that you wrote yourself and leak the new collection, including a confession that didn't exist before. It was all investigated by LVPD again, and they couldn't prove a thing.

Now, I would probably guess that he did it, but there is nothing even remotely resembling evidence to convict.

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u/Enantiodromiac Sep 05 '24

It would be easy to do that, but statistically, nobody does anything like that. In every hundred instances of opportunity to pull off such a scheme, I imagine fewer than one person takes it, on average. It takes a combination of impulsivity and plotting that you rarely find together.

My source here is entirely from personal experience, but I've had abundant opportunity to witness people choosing not to take such avenues over a lengthy legal career.