AHHHHHHHH I AM SO FUCKING HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!!!
Maybe the world isn't such a fucked up place after all.
Maybe the world isn't such a fucked up place after all.
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Disney brings back James Gunn for Guardians of the Galaxy 3
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It sounded (Not sure if it was from this article) that other directors were never even in contact to replace. So... I guess they were waiting for the ful scenario to play out but hedging their bets as well?
Not that they were in contact, they opposed disney (Taika watiti, edgar wright, etc.)
This made me so happy today. Doesn't make up for the overall horribleness of today, like, at all. But I'll take it.
I saw tons of left-wing voices cheering his removal when it happened which was upsetting. Hope they can come around on this.
I saw tons of left-wing voices cheering his removal when it happened which was upsetting. Hope they can come around on this.
This is great news! I feel like it takes a lot for a company like Disney to admit when they're wrong, and this was something they really screwed up. Gunn was responsible for helping create some of the best movies in the MCU.
Solid. Is Taika working on another film? He's easily one of my favorite directors and Thor: Rag was top three for me in Marvel Films.
This was my takeaway, as well. Gunn handled this really well by sincerely apologizing and never badmouthing Disney publicly. Looks like that approach and ongoing meetings with Alan Horn eventually got him his job back.
There are a lot of other public figures that could learn a lot from this.
I'm glad they brought him back. His comments were gross, no doubt about that, but they were comments that he made years ago when he was a completely different person. Comments that he had long apologized for, and had already shown to have become a far better person since that time.
I see no reason to allow him to come back. He's shown himself to be sincere in his regret, which is far more than can be said for some individuals when awful shit they've said or done has come to light.
I see no reason to allow him to come back. He's shown himself to be sincere in his regret, which is far more than can be said for some individuals when awful shit they've said or done has come to light.
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Right now he's working on Jojo Rabbit which is in post-production, but he haven't been given another Marvel project yet. He definitely want to work with them again though.
That'd be quite an accomplishment seeing as how GotG 2 is a top 3 Marvel film!
Not for me fam.
Infinity War
Civil War
Black Panther
I actually put GotG2 pretty low. Somewhere in between the Ironman sequels and antman & the wasp
The comments are gold.
DC AND MARVEL GIG
Thanks Trolls, sincerely Gunn
This tweet is what made the whole ordeal so maddening. It's clearly an incredibly important project to him. I'm so glad he gets to make it.
I would bet money that Taika has something lined up at Marvel, likely Thor 4. But we won't find out the slate until after Endgame.
He made jokes about pedophilia around a decade ago. He apologized for it years ago and as recently as 2017 talked about how he feels like a much happier person now that he doesn't feel the need to make those edgy jokes. But he's also very vocal about his hatred of Trump. So people on the far-right dug through his tweets and found those old ones and Disney bowed to that and fired him.
I'm not looking but let me guessLooking at the Alt-Right meltdown on twitter
Alt-right shit: "Disney supports pedos everyone!!"
The same alt-right shit: "Excuse me, my anime girl is really 1000 years old"
This is *probably* the right decision.
Alt-right hit job or not, the remarks he made were pretty abhorrent. I'd bet Fox News would be all over it had their parent company just not sold most everything to Disney. I hope no one has anything more lying in wait for this moment.
However, reading the Deadline report, his contrition was also very on point and very human. I sincerely hope this is the beginning of the end of outright cancel culture, and we'll lay the pitchforks down for a moment and understand most people who do stupid things in the past typically don't have the same level of stupidity in them in the present.
Alt-right hit job or not, the remarks he made were pretty abhorrent. I'd bet Fox News would be all over it had their parent company just not sold most everything to Disney. I hope no one has anything more lying in wait for this moment.
However, reading the Deadline report, his contrition was also very on point and very human. I sincerely hope this is the beginning of the end of outright cancel culture, and we'll lay the pitchforks down for a moment and understand most people who do stupid things in the past typically don't have the same level of stupidity in them in the present.
He is the chosen one who will direct the Amalgam movie.
