Director James Gunn has been fired from 'Guardians of the Galaxy 3' after offensive tweets resurface

[oberliner]

"Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise writer-director James Gunn has been fired by Disney from the third movie following old offensive tweets of his resurfacing this week.

"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," Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn said in a statement given to Business Insider.

Gunn was writing the script to the third "Guardians" movie, which was to begin shooting in the fall with a 2020 release date.

Gunn's offensive tweets, which he wrote in 2010 and 2011, were brought back to light by conservative personalities who were opposed to Gunn's tweets against President Trump and the Republican Party.

http://www.businessinsider.com/james-gunn-fired-from-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-for-offensive-tweets-2018-7

[MrScorpio]

1. Wingnuts are some of the whiniest victims on the face of this Earth

Fuck 'em all.

[oberliner]

2. Who are you saying is the "wingnut" in this scenario?

[blogslut]

4. Read the article you linked to

[oberliner]

9. The article seems to suggest several potential answers to my question

Which is why I asked it.

[fescuerescue]

23. Without reading the article

My guess is that everyone appears to be a wingnut, is a wingnut.

[oberliner]

24. I guess there are wingnuts and just regular nuts

[MrScorpio]

5. The Trump cultists who are out to put Gunn's head on a pike for his tweets...

Who did you think I was talking about?

[oberliner]

10. Everyone involved in this story seems a little nuts

His old tweets are crazy and the reaction to them is crazy.

[Blue_Adept]

3. Not surprising considering the current atmosphere

Combined with what a lot of writers/directors do early in their career in the modern day to catch attention to their works.

It's gonna be a slow change and a hard change in a lot of ways. This happens with a bunch of athletes as well but they generally get kicked for a few games, pay a penalty, do some sensitivity training, and move on.

Disney, to their credit, didn't do anything different than they did with Roseanne. So even though I like Gunn and he talked last night about how he grew and changed over the past several years, it's an easy let-go moment.

Does make me curious what Marvel will do now since they had said that he was going to be instrumental in the next big phase after Avengers 4 with the direction of the whole shebang.

[blogslut]

6. Taika Waititi should direct all the Marvel movies, IMHO

[Blue_Adept]

7. Ehhhhh

Not all characters need the same tone. That's what helped when Gunn came on as it was different than what came before with Thor, Cap, Avengers, Iron Man and all that.

Waititi's great and I'd love to see him do another Thor or explore a character not yet introduced.

[0rganism]

14. i'm still hoping for a Korg + Rocket team-up

it would be ... glorious.

[Blue_Adept]

32. oh man that is so totally the dream!

[exboyfil]

8. Seriously the Barr situation was different

It happened now, and she continued with the offensive tweets even as the controversy went on around her. I cannot believe that a Jewish teenager under the iron heel of the German Nazis in WW II was called a Nazi.

I don't know what Gunn's old tweets said, but the two situations are not equivalent.

[oberliner]

11. You don't know what the tweets said?

One of them is quoted in the article.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

40. Years old and apologized for

And no worse than anything Family Guy does each week and is celebrated for

[Blue_Adept]

12. If you don't know what the past tweets were (or a very homophobic article written years ago

about banging superheroes), then how you can see it's different?

You're lacking half the context.

[Blue_Adept]

13. Also worth remembering; it was Cernovich who advanced all of this

Gunn deleted a ton of this years ago and apologized for it and talked about the growth that came from it as he engaged with a wider community.

Good people grow from experiences.

Shitheels double down on it.

[octoberlib]

15. Rape coach Cernovich , the Pizzagate guy, also got Sam Seder fired from MSNBC because of

a joke on Twitter. MSNBC hired him back.

[Initech]

19. If you were to look up the word "tool" in the dictionary, you'd see Cernovich's picture.

Also if Disney fired Gunn because of this douche, I will boycott GOTG 3, and I have seen every MCU flick from day one. Fuck the Pizzagate morons.

[Docreed2003]

29. I'm not sure what kind of direction GotG would take without Gunn

These movies and their content were his babies...

[Initech]

30. Yeah I really wonder.

I'm raging over this one. Cernovich (serial rapist) and his goons have turned pedophilia into a weapon and they used today. Fuck these fucking assholes.

[Docreed2003]

27. It's incredible to me that this would become an issue for him now

Tweets from 2010 and 2011 that he had been VERY honest about previously! Marvel/Disney has to have known about it because Gunn has been very open about them. There's no way they didn't know about this when he first began work writing and directing the first GotG....no way.

[uponit7771]

41. +1

[Docreed2003]

28. Oh and fuck that pos Cernovich

[madinmaryland]

16. Who is this guy. I've never heard of him...

That being said, what he posted was offensive, but I don't know what his popularity is compared to Roseanne Barr. It just goes to say, that you have to be careful what you post.

[oberliner]

17. Wrote and directed some movies and was married to the actress who played Pam on The Office

American version.

[0rganism]

18. sad

the guy had a lot of talent and made some really awesome movies

[oberliner]

20. Which of the movies he made were really awesome?

[0rganism]

21. i really like the Guardians of the Galaxy movies

of course, i'm kind of a MCU fanboy but hey everyone gets to have opinions
there's more pure fun and joy in the first 15 minutes of GotG2 than most other movies can pack into the full runtime

[oberliner]

22. Gotcha

He hasn't really done much outside of that series though.

[samir.g]

33. "Slither"

Great comic horror movie.

[RhodeIslandOne]

35. Slither is an underrated horror film n/m

[Docreed2003]

26. Agreed

[cynatnite]

25. The first two movies made $1.6 billion...

This move wasn't made lightly.

[wonkwest]

31. Sadly appropriate

I really liked his spin on the MCU, but those tweets are indefensible no matter when they were made. Disney has an image to maintain, and no way were they keeping him after half the Internet saw him make hundreds of comments about rape and pedophilia.

I don't really care that it was right-wingers who brought him down. This is how the outrage mob of social media works nowadays. Sometimes we get one of theirs, sometimes they get one of ours.

Anyone who isn't squeaky clean in their social media history needs to delete that stuff before getting into political slap fights. It just won't end well. There are people online who have nothing but time on their hands and will doxx and go looking. I'm wondering if a disgruntled Star Wars critic didn't go looking and then tipped the Daily Caller off (Gunn very recently got into it with one of the most rabid fan bases on earth).

I'm surprised someone on Gunn's team, like an assistant or PR type, weren't all over that as soon as he started getting famous.

It really didn't help that one of the friends he was "joking" with about child rape actually was convicted of pedophilia last year. You just know people are going to start wondering if there's something there we're not seeing. No way in hell Disney was going to invite that one.

Sad day, but it's honestly his own damn fault.

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

39. Gunn apologized for this stuff years ago

Disney was aware of it when they hired him.

South Park and Family Guy do much worse every week to this day, and Cernovich is a fucking rapist.

[samir.g]

34. right-wingnuts sticking up for him is puzzling

I wonder what their angle is.

[RhodeIslandOne]

36. ???? They aren't.

That wife beating Trump sucker Mike Cernovich led this thing.

[samir.g]

38. Ben Shapiro is

and he's as far to the right as it gets.

[RhodeIslandOne]

42. Oh ok

I saw his input this morning but that was the only one so far.

I don’t consider him to the right of Cernobitch.

[GReedDiamond]

37. Perfect timing for comicon sd 2018...nt