Gene Maddaus Senior Media WriterDirector Neil Marshall has issued a statement denying a report that he tried to extort NBCUniversal vice chairman Ron Meyer, saying the media should focus on the “real villains” and on Hollywood’s “terrible casting couch culture.”Marshall was responding to a report on Wednesday in The Wrap, which identified him and another director as seeking hush payments to stay silent about Meyer’s brief affair with actress Charlotte Kirk eight years ago.Meyer resigned on Tuesday after informing NBCUniversal of the situation, and of a settlement he had paid to the actress.In a statement to Deadline, Marshall blasted the allegations against him as “nothing but lies based upon falsehoods,” and “a load of old bollocks.”.
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