Disney announced today that they had fired filmmaker James Gunn, who was to direct the Marvel film “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,” after a series of old and controversial messages on the filmmaker’s Twitter account where he joked about topics such as pedophilia and rape.
“The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him,” Walt Disney Studios Chairman Alan Horn said in a statement.
After those messages were brought to light, Gunn published several tweets in which he asked for forgiveness and assured that now he is a person that is “very different.”
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“I like it when the little guys touch me in my silly place, Shhh!” reads a tweet from the director tweeted in 2009.
“I’m doing a big Hollywood film adaptation of (a children’s book) ‘The Giving Tree’ with a happy ending: the tree grows back and gives the kid a blowjob,” he wrote in another message in 2011
Gunn had also taken rape issues lightly.
Gunn had taken over as director of “Guardians of the Galaxy” (2014) and its sequel “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”, two films belonging to the Marvel Cinematic Universe that included Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldaha.
The first raised worldwide over 773 million dollars, while the second bagged 864 million.
The filming of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” was scheduled to begin before the end of this year.
Sometimes what you do in the past echoes in eternity.
