You're right, they weren't. But he has since acknowledged those decade old tweets weren't funny and that he acted like an ass by making them.
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300K + sign petition for Disney to rehire James Gunn for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
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Time to put out a surprise Captain Marvel trailer to distract everyone!
Avengers infinity wars Blu-ray releases and drop the A4 title.
I need a copy and paste image showing he has long apologized for the jokes and has become a better person since. I don't know why people ignore that.
I honestly wouldn't blame the entire Guardians cast for refusing to work on the project under a different director. Put Disney's PR face to the proverbial fire. It's not like they need the money.
They don't have to accept his apology tho. Even if you're changed people will get on your case about not deserving success afterwards.
It's like Dave Chappelle said, you want everybody to be a perfect ally and that's just not possible. It's a ridiculous standard and it sucks that we all aren't afforded mistakes in life anymore.
People who were supportive of Disney firing him are looking like a special kind of dumb now.
Yeah, they were most likely expecting a pat on the back, this backfired badly for them from a PR point.
And risk getting blacklisted by Disney? With the Fox deal they produce a ridiculous amount of Hollywood movies.
Has Feige even said anything about this at all? Seems like it would be his place to comment, since he hired Gunn, not Disney.
Even if they are under contract, it will look even worse for Disney to actually take legal action against any crew members standing up for Gunn. Good on Bautista for not hesitating to take a stand, the rest of the cast doing the same (or hell, even just Saldana and Pratt) would do more to force Disney's hand than anything else.
I hope these petitions succeed because the firing was one of the most hypocritical actions I have ever seen. They are upset over supposed pedophilic posts sent by Gunn years ago as jokes, yet 80% of their animated films feature teens being pursued by adult men. And let's not forget how they sexualized their teen stars like Miley Cyrus and tried to present them as what was basically jailbait. Disney simply has no moral ground here at all to stand on.
Three things might happen:
1. Nothing happens and Disney keeps their mouths shut. And I find this to be a bad move from them since they WILL need to answer, at least from Feige or Iger.
2. Disney goes "fuck ya'll Gunn is back" and pisses off the Alt-Right.
3. Walt Disney Pictures Chairman resigns. It's a PR disaster that started with him. Iger would ask for his head.
1. Nothing happens and Disney keeps their mouths shut. And I find this to be a bad move from them since they WILL need to answer, at least from Feige or Iger.
2. Disney goes "fuck ya'll Gunn is back" and pisses off the Alt-Right.
3. Walt Disney Pictures Chairman resigns. It's a PR disaster that started with him. Iger would ask for his head.
They've got to clue in eventually, right? I mean, this is a multi-prong war being waged on multiple social media fronts with the subtlety of a sledgehammer.
If this is dragged out over the next week or more with more celebrities speaking out, both 2 and 3 could happen. It really depends entirely on how long the story stays in the news.
3 isn't happening. This is bad PR but it's still just thousands of people upset with this. It would have to be millions for the CEO to resign.
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Man it would be crazy if Disney doubled down and released a statement saying the are proceeding with finding a new director.
It's been happening for a while now, I hope this finally wakes some of these fucking people up but it's still hard for a lot I see online to fathom what's actually happening and what the bigger picture is.
4. They cancel GotG3. If they want to stand firm on their decision and the actors are now going to start raising a stink on social media they can just cancel the whole project. Pretty much shuts down all bad PR if there is no more movie.
The petition now has more signatures than the number of people who were even fucking aware of Weird Mike's bullshit in the first place.
Well this will die down, till production starts on GotG3, then people will remember all over again and complain about Gunn. If they shut things down now, in a few months/year no one will have reason to bring this up again as there is no movie in production, no advertising, etc.
So yeah I guess throw gasoline on the fire now to let it burn itself out and not worry about it later.
If Bryan Singer and Victor Salva can survive being actual pedophiles, I think Gunn and his disowned jokes are going to be fine.
The only possibility of 3 happening is if GotG3 is cancelled and all the Guardian characters are erased from the MCU.
I mean... I'd like James Gunn to return... but it's not like I'm no longer gonna see GotG3 without him... and I think most are that way... and I think Disney knows that...
If the cast refuses to work without Gunn (which they probably can't do unless there's breach of contract), then maybe.
If the cast refuses to work without Gunn (which they probably can't do unless there's breach of contract), then maybe.
I'm guessing Bautista is contracted to do GotG3 anyway?
Maybe he can threaten to phone it in.
Maybe he can threaten to phone it in.
Alan Horn is 75 years old. His contract as Disney Pictures chairman expires at the end of this year after an extension in 2014. I don't think he even wants to continue because he originally retired when he stepped down from Warner Brothers and Iger personally asked him to come out of retirement to helm Disney. There's no resigning or firing here, he's not sticking around I think.
I don't think 3 has a remote possibility of happening
1 is the most likely imo but 2 could definitely happen
Targeted attacks from the alt-right, most of which involve some degree of misrepresenting liberals who are prominent anti-trump voices.
Sounds like that would make him an easy fall guy if Disney wanted to save face?
So basically JLaw's performance in X-Men: Apocalypse.
That's absolutely fucking ridiculous there's so many reasons why that would be counterproductive
For one the direction GOTG3 goes is completely dependent on what happens in Avengers 4 a movie that's already finished filming and depending on how the story goes needing to rewrite and reshoot will cost alot of money and may end up effecting the quality of the movie and continuity and considering the MCU is built on both of those things and how it's going to impact the conclusion for a story 10 YEARS IN THE MAKING than you can see why Marvel would be hesitant to do that.
Plus if Disney were to cancel an entire movie one that is highly anticipated and has alot riding on it entirely because of the Alt Right than it's going to seriously damage the Marvel brand. All you would do is further empower them because all it says is if you just yell hard enough and slander people with no regard you can not only fire someone in the industry for going against your political beliefs but you can topple one of the biggest movie dynasties in one fell swoop. For Disney one of the biggest movie companies to let that happen they would never live it down it would be one of the most shameful moves they've done in their entire legacy.
It's been explained hundreds of times by now. Long and short: He already apologized for the tweets 6 years ago, and the tweets have been misrepresented to appear worse than they are.
Because it was 8-10 years ago, he apologized, and he's a better person today.
I am aware of that. But the poster I quoted was saying something about transparency and the current moment and about liberals.
