James gunn fired!!! - Part 1

I'll see it... but not until streaming. Barring getting free tickets, I plan not to see in theaters and give Disney money for this.

 

I don't know about that really. Ultimately, its gonna have to be mediocre or bad enough for the GA to only see it once for Disney to really be taught a lesson. Ultimately, its the GA that Disney focuses on the most because they assume, rightly or wrongly, they're gonna get the money of fanboys one way or another.

If the film ends up with a high RT score, and general audiences end up loving it with repeat business , its unlikely to teach Disney a lesson not to do what they've done again.

I do think however, the whole hub bub over Gunn's firing has taught them a lesson PR wise in how to handle these type of situations better. That in a sense may correct or change their behavior and how they go about handling disputes with the talent.

 

The logic is indeed ass, but logic isn’t the point in all this. Disney is trying to split the proverbial baby. They’re afraid to bring Gunn all the way back lest the alt right trolls return in force, but at the same time backlash has forced them to partially reverse course. In just a few weeks, Horn has gone from declaring that Disney had “severed its business relationship” with Gunn to agreeing to keep his script and taking a cordial meeting with him. Feige not bothering with the meeting but being reported as OK with everything now strongly suggests to me that an understanding has been reached behind the scenes. Exactly what that entails, I don’t know, but I’d bet it involves a potential return a couple years down the road.

 

This was my feeling as well, they wouldn't change their minds in this case.

 

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Here's what I don't get. If the situation is so bad that Disney "needs" to fire him...then why even use his script at all? If you don't want to be associated with him at all, why even let him get a credit attached to your huge movie?

 

Only America seems to make such an issue out of entertainers and their lives. The GA, even the US I think, really doesn't care. This whole Gunn business won't affect overseas numbers at all IMO. Even if anyone from the GA has even heard of this, the movie is almost 2 years away from release. They will have forgotten about Gunn by then.

 

Which is why I called them hypocrites in my next post. No man or women is perfect, which apparently they agree with in some cases, so I'm not having this selective morality from these bums.

 

Just saying, the use of the script is a BIG deal, and this wasn't my own speculation. This is actually the scuttlebutt from those who specialize in these kinds of international approval processes.

 

Yeah. I think what alot of fans need to realize is that Disney is not Warner Brothers.

They aren't stumbling around , trying to please hardcore fans, changing things left and right in order to please people, trying to hold onto Ben Affleck, scrambling to respond to fan backlash and outrage to please them.

That is not Disney.

On today's Screen junkies news, they compared them to the Mafia, and that's a pretty good approximation.

Don't let the mouse ears fool you. They didn't get as powerful as they've become by playing nice. They aren't gonna be easily intimidated by angry fans and actors to do something if they don't want to do it.

 

And to be honest, they really didn't have to.

 

being a director also means going around too different events to promote the video, a script writer RARELY does.

All it takes is a couple people going to these events and creating a scene to really tarnish a marketting plan. (Whether you agree with it or not.)

It's like if they give a rehabbed criminal a job as a sound guy. I really wouldn't know nor would I care, at the end of the day I'm looking at the director, and the actors too blame if everything goes awry, as well as heap the praise if everything is perfect. I acknowledge it takes all sorts of people to make a movie, from costume design to camera men, but all those decisions are still all passed by the director.(for the most part...sometimes the producers get involved.)

 

Well sorry Disney but you can't do Guardians of the Galaxy without all of the Guardians, so you might as well give up. James Gunn as director was as much a Guardian as the cast.

 

Maybe he's just a fan of the TV Show?

 

Yeah, Pretty much , and that was before the Fox merger. Lol.

 

People are just going to have to learn and accept this. Especially after that merger, the movie theaters is the stroll, these actors are the hoes, and the Walt Disney Company is the pimp.

For the GOTG cast to write that letter, they shot themselves in the foot. I truly think Disney will make an example out of them. Who needs them when X-Men is coming back anyway.

 

Never the less, that's the connection you failed to see.

 

Because of Bautista's Drax? Pft, anyone can get painted on and spend an entire movie doing nothing but laugh. Doesn't take much acting for that.

 

Gunn @#$ed up. People might not agree with Disney's decision but they made a choice and are sticking to their guns. If they were wrong to do so then Gunn would file for an unfair dismissal but he hasn't and can't because Disney are in their right too for whatever reason.

 

Disney and MARVEL stand by the decision. Feige couldn't be bothered to come back from vacation to talk about it (aka getting out of dodge to avoid the blame). Reports he backed the decision. I'm not saying, I'm just saying.

People forget that Feige probably realizes how good he has it now. Especially after working with Fox and Sony in the past. Disney is a great employer who write massive checks. They give studio head's plenty of latitude.

 

Stop this nonsense already.

It's like saying Joss Whedon is the Avengers.

 

And then Joss "left" and the Russos made two much better Avengers movies in Civil War and Infinity War.

 

I mean, way more than any MCU director... he kind of was.

Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiDAfjibWY8&frags=pl,wn

 

I think Darth and I have the same feeling on Feige. Dude got out of town to avoid any blame or responsibility for this. He's keeping a layer of separation here.

 

Bob Iger actually removed Perlmutter to let him be the head of Marvel Studios, and he's about to receive both X-Men and FF for MCU. I have a feeling that as much as he loves the Avengers, he wants the X-Men ever since his outline for the X-Men universe was rejected by Fox years ago; I don't think he wanted to leave, but at the same time by staying away he's also not looking like he's endorsing this decision either.