Beau DeMayo takes purpose at Marvel! The former X-Men ’97 showrunner lately trashed the studio’s animated choices with What If…? season 3.
If somebody weren’t following all Marvel information like a hawk, it’d be comprehensible in the event that they didn’t understand that What If…? debuted its sequence finale. Unlike prior outings for the MCU’s landmark animated title, season 3 of the challenge appeared to return and go with out even a touch of fanfare by basic audiences.
However, it appears one individual has come to make their ideas loud and clear. Beau DeMayo, who beforehand served because the showrunner for X-Men ’97 earlier than being let go earlier this yr for undisclosed causes, has taken to social media to present his ideas on season 3 of the present. Sadly, they aren’t good, with him evaluating the dialogue of What If…? to fanfiction and saying he’d quite watch water boil than end the present.
I’d watch extra to present notes on the way it may’ve simply been carried out higher however I’ve some water to look at boil
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) December 27, 2024
To has no substance and appears like fanfic. The dialogue is flat and so apparent, and a number of the premises are simply bizarre.
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) December 27, 2024
Beau DeMayo Fires Back At New X-Men ’97 Showrunner
For those that don’t know, the pinnacle author for What If…? season 3 Matthew Chauncey is ready to take over X-Men ’97 in season 3, with Beau DeMayo’s scripts for season 2 getting used as a baseline for the upcoming season. This is clearly not one thing DeMayo is glad about, laying the shortage of high quality in What If…? on the toes of Chauncey, and accusing him of mendacity for not figuring out concerning the rights surrounding the X-Men within the MCU.
This can be the season the place AC Bradley utterly stepped again for Chauncey to take over
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) December 27, 2024
They had been very nicely conscious that the rights. We had convos. Absolutely bullshit. Again, simply liars. They got here and requested my #xmen97 group and I what character they might use in #WhatIf Season 3 and we pointed them to What If #12 (1990)
This is just like the mendacity BS with T’Chaka https://t.co/pbfX3kqpYD
— Beau DeMayo (@BeauDemayo) December 28, 2024
This sequence of posts, together with the underwhelming reception to What If…? season 3, have led many to name for Beau DeMayo to be reinstated as showrunner for X-Men ’97. However, it’s unlikely he’ll be returning to the MCU anytime quickly given the studio has nonetheless not launched any clear assertion about why DeMayo was fired, suggesting a seriousness not in a position to just by glazed over in a year-long sabbatical.
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