Amazon goes on the attack against Criminal harassment accuser

This is per Deadline, which reports that Amazon MGM filed the legally obligatory response to Noohu’s complaint this week, with an extra side of “Calling their accuser a moneygrubbing liar” thrown in. Writing about Noohu, whose original complaint included the accusation that Brubaker verbally and physically harassed him, and at one point pointed a working (but presumably unloaded) firearm at him and pulled the trigger, the filing states that “The evidence in this case will ultimately and overwhelmingly demonstrate that he is an opportunist, not a victim, and that his claims are meritless.” The complaint addressed the gun incident specifically, calling it “pure invention,” adding that “Had that happened, every person in the room, Noohu included, had a duty to report it and in a post-Rust industry on high alert to firearms, someone would have. No one did.”

Brubaker is a well-known comics industry figure who’s spent the last few years moving into screenwriting, including co-executive-producing Amazon miniseries Too Old To Die Young with Nicolas Winding Refn back in 2019. Criminal has been in the works for years at this point, although, as noted by Deadline, Amazon picked this very weird opportunity as an oblique way to suggest the series probably isn’t all that far off: “Noohu sat on these supposed claims for twenty months,” the lawyers wrote, “And filed suit on the eve of the press circuit for Criminal. That is the conduct of an opportunist timing his leverage, not a victim seeking redress.” So, uh, yeah: Criminal! Coming soon, we guess!