Marvel Studios has fired Beau DeMayo, the creator of the upcoming animated Disney Plus collection X-Males ’97, based on The Hollywood Reporter. De Mayo beforehand produced and wrote for one more Marvel present, Moon Knight, and has additionally labored on The Witcher, The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf, and Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds. The firing reportedly occurred early final week, and neither Marvel nor DeMayo’s representatives commented on the choice to the outlet. Marvel has additionally not responded to The Verge’s request for remark.
The timing of DeMayo’s departure is uncommon, on condition that X-Males ’97 is ready to premiere on Disney Plus roughly every week from now, on March twentieth. DeMayo is credited because the creator and government producer of the present’s total first season. He had even completed writing duties on an upcoming second season of X-Males ’97 and was in talks together with his group a couple of third, THR reported.
X-Males ’97 continues the storyline of X-Males: The Animated Sequence, which aired from 1992 to 1997. A number of of the unique voice actors returned for the brand new collection, together with Lenore Zann (who performs Rogue), George Buza (Beast), Cal Dodd (Wolverine), Adrian Hough (Nightcrawler), Chris Britton (Mr. Sinister), and Chris Potter (Gambit).
DeMayo seems to have deleted his Instagram account, which featured common updates about his work with Marvel. Additionally now not energetic is his free, non-explicit OnlyFans account, which DeMayo created earlier than his involvement with X-Males ’97.