Disney rehires James Gunn to direct 'Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3'; he had been fired last year over offensive tweets from nearly a decade ago.
US director James Gunn at the European Gala screening of "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" in London, April 24, 2017.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Gunn, who was
last year after a conservative publication published offensive tweets from a nearly decade ago, has been reinstated as writer-director of"Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3," the next installment in the blockbuster Marvel franchise."I am tremendously grateful to every person out there who has supported me over the past few months," Gunn said in a message on Twitter.
published tweets, posted from 2008 to 2011 and since deleted, in which he made crude jokes about the Holocaust, pedophilia, AIDS and Mexican people. "The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James' Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studios' values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn said in a statement at the time.when he was just starting out but has since became a"very, very different" person.."I don't anymore.
Gunn's dismissal from the project did not sit well with its stars."Guardians" actors Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel and Dave BautistaThe move also drew criticism from commentators who believed Disney was capitulating to bad-faith attacks. Gunn's old tweets were initially resurfaced by the far-right figures Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, who pored over the director's social media history after he criticized President Donald Trump.
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