James Gunn Re-hired for GOTG Vol 3
 

James Gunn is exiting Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

The move comes after conservative personalities resurfaced old tweets in which the filmmaker joked about controversial topics such as pedophelia and rape. Gunn, who has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, has since deleted his Twitter account.

"The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," said Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn in a statement.

Before deleting his account, Gunn tweeted, "Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo. As I have discussed publicly many times, as I’ve developed as a person, so has my work and my humor."

Gunn has been writing the script for Guardians 3, and the movie was expected to begin shooting in Atlanta in the fall for an expected 2020 release date. The Guardians movies have been a massive success for Disney and Marvel. The first movie made more than $773 million worldwide while the second made $863 million. The films stood out from other Marvel movies as they were infused with Gunn's off-kilter filmmaking sensibilities that owed more to indie genre movies than slicker cookie cutter studio fare.

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Well this sucks. :(

Huh.
Well that's a damn shame on many fronts.
I've been making my way through his interview on the podcast "Inside You" with Michael Rosenbaum, and he's certainly honest about his early life and early opinions and how he's grown.

Jesus, no one in Hollywood should have a Twitter anymore.

That's a huge bummer

I wonder how come Disney executives are able to randomly fire directors out from under Feige, particularly proven ones. I thought Feige and Marvel Studios had basic autonomy.

This here is good proof of what happens when someone assumes they're in a safe space, and they're not.

Mr Weasley warned us:
"“Ginny!" said Mr. Weasley, flabbergasted. "Haven't I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain?”

This is going to affect Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. He's been writing it. and the film is supposed to be released in 2020. Now Marvel has to find a new director. And possibly a new writer if they decide not to go with his script.

Didn't these decade old tweets come out prior to the first GOTG? I could've sworn there was already a big discussion about this.

Crazy that Disney makes this move now. He's been extremely outspoken about Trump recently. I hope that didn't play a factor in his removal.

This is going to affect the MCU as a whole. He was in charge of spearheading the cosmic side of the MCU in Phase 4.

Ah,man. This really going to derail thevquirky awesomness of the franchise. I hope Disney knows what it is doing!

I looked at the tweets. A... different kind of a sense of humor, to be sure, but he's very obviously joking in each and every one of them.

F*** Disney.

Bottom line, if you want to say something ****ed up online, do it anonymously.

**** Disney is right.

I'm positive this was brought up before the first movie. Disney knew then. Just like Disney knew what they were getting when they brought Roseanne back. This BS self righteousness after the fact is disgusting.

Ah, but back then Gunn wasn't pointing his ire at a sitting administration.
The world was a different place then.

It's extremely shameful that Gunn behaved that way. As a result of his actions the man who made the Guardians of Galaxy staples in the Marvel Cinematic Universe won't be coming back to do the third one.

I will say that if Disney gets Joss Whedon to replace him, then would be extremely disappointing and would make no sense whatsoever. That man tweeted that he wished Paul Ryan would be raped to death by a rhinoceros. He also poked fun at cancer survivors who visited Ryan. Plus, his fan website was shut down after all of the awful things that were revealed about him in an essay that his ex-wife had written.

'Guardians of the Galaxy' Director James Gunn Apologizes for Controversial Jokes: 'I'm Sorry and Regret Making Them at All'

Dang it, looks like those conservative personalities were scooped!

Joss Whedon is totally gone, mentally. He's like a big putrid ball of hate and bile now.

So it was Trump supporters that led the charge in this - they did the digging and rallied together on Twitter to bring it to the attention of Disney.

Terrible precedent set here.

Not just Trump supporters, but the freaking pizzagate folks apparently. It's laughable that Disney gave those people any time.

I'd imagine it's more than possible that this was the final straw. The proverbial feather to land on the already heaping pile of wank that they've maybe put up with from him, and it was just easier to use this as an excuse to let him go.

Because...again, none of this was unknown.
And it's not like Disney doesn't already employ a bunch of morally questionable people in high profile franchises.

*cough*Johnny Depp*cough*

more proof Trump Supporters are womenless snowflake manbabies :x. There is a hastag rehire james gunn on twitter going

Goodbye, sweet prince.

Well looks like I will be skipping GotG3.

I'm gonna see GOTG Vol 3 regardless if James Gunn is involved or not.

Now we get a sh***y GotG3 by probably a studio filter director... but at least social justice was served.

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And that's the real victory...

They'll probably do a page one rewrite too just to scrub Gunn's name completely from this.

I honestly don't see the humor in his tweets... I mean, what? Like, where's the joke? While I'm still baffled at what he wrote, I think it's clear it was done to be edgy and weird, and honestly, I don't see why he should be fired for that. Especially 10 years later. I get Disney is trying to protect themselves and distance themselves from his mess right now, but that's just really sh*tty for Gunn.

The Same disney that fired gun still hires Johnny " I beat my wife" Deep. so go figure

Wait... are Trump supporters social justice warriors too now? :lol:

Allegedly beat his wife.

OK, he probably did it. But that's an important distinction.

They can be, sure. Though regardless of who "Called Dad" on this, it was the Disney suits who kowtowed to it. They didn't have to.

Gunn made a pedophilia joke over a decade ago. They were aware of it prior to working with him 6 years ago but fired him over it now.

Meanwhile the same Disney hired a convicted pedophile to write and direct Powder two decades ago.

This was years ago though. It was even before Vol. 1 went into production. Why not call him in then? I was embarrassed about Jason Biggs attachment to TMNT even if he did not insult Romney and Ryan in front of children on Twitter. This guy is not like that as a person evolved and put out quality films since then. Forgive and forget. Who is Disney going to Gunn for next?:trazz:

This is what the narrative demands!

I wonder if this will affect Sean Gunn's involvement. He plays Kraglin and also is the stand in for Rocket.

Highly doubtful. Whoever the poor bastard is that they make be the director will probably be doing everything in the world to assure people, "Nope, see? Nothing's different here... it's the same everything as before! Just... no James!"

If anything, they'd probably give Sean Gunn a bigger part.

I love the spin of "With Over 10,000 Tweets, James Gunn promoted Rape and Pedophilia"

No. a hand full of his 10,000 tweets were incredibly tasteless jokes he has since apologized for.

I hate this modern age where Twitter mobs can be released to destroy people you don't like or disagree with.

People just need to stop using Twitter to post your opinions on things. Cause they always open a can of worms.

People just need to realize that no 2 people are going to see eye to eye on everything and stop taking difference of opinions as grounds to decimate each other.

Stuff like this just sets horrible precedent, as well. Now the next time someone unearths from colorful tweet from any actor 10 or more years ago, the SJWs will rattle away with, "Well you guys fired James Gunn back in 2018... now you guys HAVE to fire this new person, too, and if you don't... WTF??!??"