James Gunn and Disney have finally reconciled their differences, and the controversial director is back for a third Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
Deadline reported Friday that Disney has reinstated James Gunn as writer-director of Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3, a film that had been stalled indefinitely after Gunn was fired by Disney as the result of an alt-right smear campaign in July. Reportedly, the decision to rehire Gunn was “actually made months ago.” Inverse has also confirmed that Gunn is back in the director role.
Gunn was hiredin October by Warner Bros. to write and direct a Suicide Squad sequel for DC. Suicide Squad will reportedly be produced and released beforeGuardians of the Galaxy vol. 3.
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James Gunn shared behind-the-scenes facts and hidden Easter eggs during a Quarantine Watch Party for the 'Guardians' sequel. The Best James Gunn Tweets From 'GOTG Vol. 2' Quarantine Watch Party Music. The latest tweets from @jamesgunn. San Diego (AFP) - 'Guardians of the Galaxy' franchise director James Gunn has been axed from the third movie over a series of offensive messages posted on Twitter several years ago. Disney, which owns the franchise as the parent company of Marvel Studios, sent AFP a statement confirming the studio was parting ways with one of its biggest stars. 'The offensive attitudes and statements.
But why was Gunn fired in the first place? Why did it take so long for things to get smoothed over? The story might’ve begun more than a year ago. It’s long. It’s exhausting. This news broke on a Friday. Here are eight tweets to get you caught up.
James Gunn has been an outspoken liberal on Twitter for years, openly mocking and criticizing President Donald Trump. He famously offered the President $100,000 to step on a scale to make his actual body weight a matter of public record.
This and other similarly charged comments incensed the alt-right. In the ensuing months, members of the “alt-right” found a number of awful jokes Gunn made about pedophilia and rape on Twitter circa 2009 to 2011.
It was, quite frankly, a vengeful smear campaign.
To be clear: These horrible jokes were very much so in poor taste. They’re outright terrible, but they genuinely seem like dark humor and nothing more sinister than that. Nobody would make jokes this awful in 2018, but a decade ago when Twitter was a different place, people felt like this was okay.
Almost immediately after Gunn’s tweets became the focus of public scrutiny, he was hit with accusations of outright pedophilia.
As the scandal grew, Gunn apologized.
It wasn’t quite enough, however, and in a public statement, Disney condemned Gunn’s comments, saying, “we have severed our business relationship with him.”
Just like that, he was fired.
Within two weeks of Gunn’s firing, the entire Guardians of the Galaxy cast, led by Dave Bautista, penned a this etter calling for the decision to be reversed. Bautista was easily the most vocal campaigner for Gunn to be rehired.
Recent reports indicate that it didn’t take long for Disney to approach James Gunn to secretively broker a deal to rehire him.
Gunn’s rehiring wasn’t announced until March 15, the day after the second full Avengers: Endgame trailer was released. The timing feels pretty deliberate.
First Captain Marvel’s wild box office success, then the excellent Endgame trailer, and now this news that pleases Marvel fans everywhere? What a month it’s been.
Since his rehiring, James Gunn has shared a thank-you letter on Twitter.
To many fans out there, this feels like “sweet justice.”
Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 has no confirmed release date, but the industry-only resource Production Weekly revealed that it might be scheduled for February 2021.
James Gunn, director of Disney’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” appeared to support attacks on conservative actress Gina Carano after she was fired by Disney late last night following things that she wrote on social media.
“The post that generated the most controversy was a screenshot of another person’s post that she then posted onto her own Instagram account,” The Daily Wire reported. “The post compared the current politically divisive culture in the U.S. to Nazi Germany.”
“Gina Carano is not currently employed by Lucasfilm and there are no plans for her to be in the future,” Lucasfilm, a production company owned by Disney, said in a statement. “Nevertheless, her social media posts denigrating people based on their cultural and religious identities are abhorrent and unacceptable.”
Critics immediately slammed Disney over the announcement and brought up how the company fired “Guardians of the Galaxy” director James Gunn in 2018 after his social media posts from years prior went viral. The tweets, which Gunn claimed were jokes, were about topics including rape and pedophilia.
Fox News reported that Gunn “appears to approve of the online bashing” that Carano faced on social media following her dismissal from Disney:
Amid the online battle, a tweet that defended Gunn and knocked Carano caught the attention of the filmmaker.
“Oh f*ck don’t drag @JamesGunn into this unfortunate trending topic,” entrepreneur Olga Kay wrote before celebrating Carano’s firing.
Gunn “liked” that tweet.
Gunn appeared to “unlike” the tweet following Fox News’s report. The network noted that representatives for Gunn did not respond to requests for comment for their report.
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Following his dismissal from Disney in July 2018, Disney rehired Gunn in May 2019 to once again direct “Guardians of the Galaxy.”
“Why the change of heart? After the firing, Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn met with Gunn on multiple occasions to discuss the situation,” Deadline reported. “Persuaded by Gunn’s public apology and his handling of the situation after, Horn decided to reverse course and reinstate Gunn.”
Disney faced other backlash after firing Carano as “#CancelDisneyPlus” shot up the top of Twitter’s trending list.
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Other backlash that Disney is still facing stems from “the fact that Pedro Pascal, Carano’s co-star in Disney’s ‘The Mandalorian,’ who openly cheers on Democrats on social media, made similar posts online to the ones that reportedly cost Carano her job, and yet he still remains employed with the company,” The Daily Wire reported. “One post from Pascal compared an image of Jews in a concentration camp in Nazi Germany in 1944 and then compared it to what it claimed was an image of children in cages in the U.S. in 2018.”
Donald Trump Jr. called out Disney, writing: “Same Movie as @ginacarano , same analogy, though the pic has the wrong date… I’m told it was 2010 under Obama/Biden. So does @Disney discriminate against women for doing what their male actors do or is is only discrimination against conservatives?”
Same Movie as @ginacarano, same analogy, though the pic has the wrong date… I'm told it was 2010 under Obama/Biden.
So does @Disney discriminate against women for doing what their male actors do or is is only discrimination against conservatives? https://t.co/D2q9Vo9GQX
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— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) February 11, 2021
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