Director James Gunn under fire for offensive tweets [Update: Fired]

[JungleSkip]

On the bright side, Taika Waititi will probably direct Guardians 3

That is not a bright side. Not the right person at all for the film.

 

[Magic-Man]

That is not a bright side. Not the right person at all for the film.

He's the closest thing Marvel has to Gunn, and it could pave the way for Thor, Valkyrie, and Korg being included in the movie. Plus, I loved Ragnarok.

 

[foodstampsFTW]

Guardians 3 should be cancelled, I don’t see any point continuing without Gunn.

This whole situation is BS

 

[Lucky Planet]

I mean, I don't blame him? Especially when he apologized, explained why he wouldn't delete them, and Disney stood by him *six years ago*.



I mean, they stood by him last time these tweets surfaced, so they are being hypocrites.

look up the drama behind the movie POWDER and director Victor Salva. that was pretty bad.

Disney hired him even though he was in jail for abusing a boy. that one was even worse. because they guy actually committed a crime.

 

[Brian G.]

The problem is the goal posts keep moving back and forth, depending on the person. They have had several instances lately where prominent people have been accused of some wrong-doing and they're still around. John Lasseter wasn't even fired and his actions were a lot more egregious.

 

[Scott W.]

I mean, I don't blame him? Especially when he apologized, explained why he wouldn't delete them, and Disney stood by him *six years ago*.



I mean, they stood by him last time these tweets surfaced, so they are being hypocrites.

I get why he never deleted them but with hindsight I'm saying he wished he did. You never know when some mentalist is going to bring it all back up and you might not be so lucky next time.

 

[ush.hacker]

Wasn't Gunn supposed to be in charge of all future cosmic marvel stuff too? Yikes.

 

[JungleSkip]

He's the closest thing Marvel has to Gunn, and it could pave the way for Thor, Valkyrie, and Korg being included in the movie. Plus, I loved Ragnarok.

He's nothing close to Gunn. They're both great directors with wildly different approaches.

I also don't think he'd take the movie. I'd be surprised if anyone of the existing Marvel directors took over for a guy they all seemed to like and work with.

It's all moot, of course, because I won't see the film now.

 

[Scott W.]

It's going to be interesting to see how the cast respond to all this.

 

[Lucky Planet]

It's going to be interesting to see how the cast respond to all this.

Specially Chris Pratt, hes kinda conservative and a family man. he's got kids. i wonder what his reaction will be out of everyone

 

[Skipper Justin]

Specially Chris Pratt, hes kinda conservative and a family man. he's got kids. i wonder what his reaction will be out of everyone

There’s no way he didn’t know of those tweets from the last time they were featured.

 

[Scott W.]

Specially Chris Pratt, hes kinda conservative and a family man. he's got kids. i wonder what his reaction will be out of everyone

I don’t think he’ll say anything that his PR team havent went over.

 

[belloq87]

Also, it's possible that Nicole Perlman will come back (she wrote a lot of Guardians 1, but wasn't involved in Guardians 2).

In fairness, I think everyone was pretty up front about her initial drafts being mostly discarded, except for some of the narrative and plot mechanics. The specific characterizations and humor were all James Gunn.

Guardians 3 should be cancelled, I don’t see any point continuing without Gunn.

I get that impulse. Finding a replacement who can retain Gunn's idiosyncrasies and peculiarities will be tough.

Again, assuming his script won't be used. Gunn as a director is replaceable; Gunn as a writer will be considerably more difficult.

 

[Magic-Man]

I don't know if this is true, but a video I'm watching says Gunn was linked to someone who was investigated/convicted for child pornography. This might be about more than just the tweets.

 

[Lucky Planet]

I don't know if this is true, but a video I'm watching says Gunn was linked to someone who was investigated/convicted for child pornography. This might be about more than just the tweets.

I mentioned the guy in an earlier post
director huston huddleston, they were friends. they would retweet each other. make those kind of jokes that Gunn did.
Hutson would send him videos on twitter or retweet Gunn's jokes.

 

[CyborgDinosaur]

Just because some other director he was on good terms with retweeted some tweets doesn't make him part of some pedophile ring. Sounds like the sort of flimsy connections that were made by the same people for that whole dumb Pizzagate thing. These tweets were clearly just bad, tasteless shock humor.

 

[Lucky Planet]

Just because some other director he was on good terms with retweeted some tweets doesn't make him part of some pedophile ring. Sounds like the sort of flimsy connections that were made by the same people for that whole dumb Pizzagate thing. These tweets were clearly just bad, tasteless shock humor.

it doesnt, but it is a weird coincidence. Gunn was making those stupid edgelord jokes and an actual pedophile was actually rejoicing in those jokes, super creepy to think about.

besides, why did Gunn keep making those jokes over and over and over and over and over?
a couple of jokes might be one thing, but several? so many jokes of that nature? thats really weird and creepy too. most normal people dont make jokes like that

 

[CyborgDinosaur]

it doesnt, but it is a weird coincidence. Gunn was making those stupid edgelord jokes and an actual pedophile was actually rejoicing in those jokes, super creepy to think about.

besides, why did Gunn keep making those jokes over and over and over and over and over?
a couple of jokes might be one thing, but several? so many jokes of that nature? thats really weird and creepy too. most normal people dont make jokes like that

I never said these tweets were normal. I'm just cautioning to not allow this to snowball into dumb conspiracy theories based on flimsy evidence and coincidences and turn into the next Pizzagate.

 

[Jones14]

I’ll say this:

I totally get the idea of second chances, particularly when it’s a one time thing (they said something bad in an interview, a lone tweet taken out of context), but there are dozens of tweets and comments that are not only crass, but utterly sickening.

Pedophilia and rape just shouldn’t be joked about, and this guy posted vile and horrific things for years relating to those two topics. It takes a special kind of sickness to normalize these things enough to joke about them in public.

With that said, Disney shouldn’t have hired him in the first place, but they did, so they shouldn’t be firing him now.

 

[HereWeGo]

Kevin Feige must be LIVID right now...

Edit: Just to add on to this. I don't feel like this should impact the Guardians ride at Epcot at all. The Guardians franchise isn't synonymous with Gunn, at least not to the general public. Honestly, most people probably don't know who he is.