Guardians of the Galaxy James gunn fired!!!

[eddy]

I came in time for the political scuffle.

There goes someone else who made a joke about rape years ago actually around the same time that Gunn did.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

There goes someone else who made a joke about rape years ago actually around the same time that Gunn did.

Who'd the cybernazis get this time?

 

[eddy]

so is horn going to fire sarah silverman? she's been in 2 disney movies (3 w/cameo) and wreck it ralph 2 comes out in a few months

https://***********/sarahksilverman/status/2509815140

I just read through that tweet string. I'm gonna need the alt right *****ebags to leave Sarah alone. What a bunch of losers.

 

[eddy]

Who'd the cybernazis get this time?

I was referring to the hillarity of using a Jason Mamoa gif when he has been criticized for years for joking during a Game of Thrones panel at comic con that he enjoyed his character getting to rape people. It was just a dumb joke that didn't harm anyone just like that Sarah Silverman one above but it would not surprise me if it got dug up considering the times we are living in.

 

[eddy]

Way I see it, this is two fold. Gunn has been a Holier than Thou *****ebag on Social Media for ages now. Openly adding fuel to the fire to countless online lynch mobs and if this was someone else, yes he would have a pitchfork in his hand. His tweets regarding Roseanne Barr confirms that.

However... seriously? These are ten year old tweets. Long before Twitter was the toxic wasteland it is today of Orwellian think-police twerps running it. I have certainly said stupid things in the past (...and no doubt will again). So have you. We are all human. Nobody is perfect. This think-mob on Social Media will not stop until someone who gets ganged up on winds up killing themselves - over some trivial thing they said off the cuff. Just you watch.

Yes these were truly skin-crawling things to say on Gunn's part. And while it might make you question the man behind closed doors, they were just stupid jokes for Christ's sake. And Disney isn't exactly an angel given their past associations and those they continue to hand $25M paychecks to on a regular basis. Hello, Johnny Depp.

I sincerely hope this blows back in Disney's face.

This happened last year to a adult actress RIP AA

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

I was referring to the hillarity of using a Jason Mamoa gif when he has been criticized for years for joking during a Game of Thrones panel at comic con that he enjoyed his character getting to rape people. It was just a dumb joke that didn't harm anyone just like that Sarah Silverman one above but it would not surprise me if it got dug up considering the times we are living in.

Ohhh... right right right. I remember that.

 

[eddy]

Different people. Different situations. Different companies. Different standards.

Not for long!

all under one

Seth Macfarlene better start looking for another job.

 

[eddy]

Anyone remember Morty and King Jellybean? That was played for laughs right?

Yeah and I laughed. I guess that makes me a monster.

I also laughed at hand banana, the dog on Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

"Tonight, you!"

 

[Flash525]

All blown out of proportion by people that can't take a friggin' joke (and an old joke at that). Social Media is crazy.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

A television show is not someone's personal twitter. The amount of straw manning and ignoring of context is so extreme.

 

[eddy]

He probably should have, but I maintain that if they were intended as jokes and he has since apologized and given interviews about how he's changed as a person, then he may have felt he had nothing to hide or was in the clear from something written a decade ago. It does make him seem a tad hypocritical though by inciting others to look into people's past. Everyone can change.

Seriously, if he were going to be fired for anything you could make a much more legitimate argument for his behavior on twitter the last handful of months then those stupid jokes. Who knows, perhaps that was the reason and the jokes served as convenient cover.

If this was true then Agents of SHIELD would be canceled much to the delight of ABC execs considering the things Joss Whedon has tweeted in the last year and a half.

 

[pr0xyt0xin]

A television show is not someone's personal twitter. The amount of straw manning and ignoring of context is so extreme.

This sentence... I can't even...

You mean Twitter, where you have to have access to the internet, type in the URL/install the app, create an account, search for the person you want to follow, and then delve 10 years back to the tweet in question just to be offended by it?

Like, seriously? Worse than the hundreds of people that worked on and okayed the aforementioned pedophila/rape jokes on basic cable?

 

[eddy]

Those are technically considered part of his artform and his label were fine with them since the publicity and controversy they caused helped sell albums. That type of publicity doesn't help sell movie tickets to a typically family-friendly audience so Disney distanced themselves from Gunn.

Yeah you're right. It just sucks because I've been a fan of Gunn since Slither and people have been calling him a creep since even back then so this sudden faux outrage from Disney out of the blew caught me by surprise on Friday and I'm just now getting a chance to read everyone's reactions so sorry guys for all the posts!

Like my earliest memories of James Gunn and the internet were all about how he was disgusting and hated women which is so woefully untrue.

http://whedonesque.com/comments/17860

 

[eddy]

As the Russos complete their 4 film.

4 people can get alot more work done than one. As the Russos do not write those films.

5 if you count Gunn writing the guardians dialogue in Infinity War.

Wow, it took 5 people to replace Joss Whedon.t:

 

[eddy]

Someone quoted an interview where he discusses the kind of stuff he used to post on Twitter and how he has changed since then.

He doesn't say what stuff, only that it was nasty, but if he is discussing nasty tweets he surely remembers what is in them. And it would indeed be sad if he was the type of person who can try make "jokes" about rape and then forget it.

Setting aside the fact that the comments in question were horrible, I'm baffled by the fact that he had the ability to remove them but didn't and has apparently spent years in online conflict with others encouraging people to dig up dirt on others.

It was pretty dumb of him to not delete those. Can't believe Disney wouldn't ask him to delete it. Probably why he tried to delete them at the last minute. Ordered by Feige but it was too late.

And yeah I didn't see that interview quote til after I posted. I can't see him working on a big film ever again. No major studio is going to touch him with a 10 foot pole. Who wants to be the studio head that hired the guy who joked about child molestation? Stupid Gunn. I hope he saved his money.

 

[eddy]

I think Feige would have known about the tweets in 2012 when the blog controversy happened however he probably was more forgiving about it. They probably discussed the matter and it was probably agreed that he should not be making those comments anymore as he is working under the Disney brand.

I would assume Alan Horn wouldn't have known much about it as to him Feige was dealing with it. Not sure what Gunn posted on his blog...was it as disgusting as the tweet? Or was the blog stuff less provocative than the tweets?

He made a list about top 100 female super heroes you want to #### and made some sexist and homophobic remarks in it. Can't post it here as it is too vulgar.

 

[jaqua99]

Good. The guy is a narcissist as Ive said

 

[Prettyricky]

Honestly if he was just doing schtick on twitter and trying to get a few laughs maybe he should have run it by a few friends or his wife before posting.

 

[Zarex]

This sentence... I can't even...

You mean Twitter, where you have to have access to the internet, type in the URL/install the app, create an account, search for the person you want to follow, and then delve 10 years back to the tweet in question just to be offended by it?

Like, seriously? Worse than the hundreds of people that worked on and okayed the aforementioned pedophila/rape jokes on basic cable?

Won't someone please think of the children that followed the Twitter account of an obscure indie director years ago and are now permanently damaged?

 

[Spider-Fan]

As the Russos complete their 4 film.

That's not a fair comparison. Joss wrote both Avengers films and he was the only director. All the Russos films have been written by Markus and McFeely, and the Russos are a team and can lean on one another so the burden can be spread. Joss had a lot more responsibility on each film, so the toll was much greater.

 

[dark_b]

I also question people said he apologized for the offensive tweets. Before this most recent incident, when did he do that? The only thing I could find he apologized for was that list blog he wrote that The Mary Sue called him out for.

i also was checking for hours and i couldnt find where he did. it looks like some are just repeating a lie.

 

[Kuwolski]

If this was true then Agents of SHIELD would be canceled much to the delight of ABC execs considering the things Joss Whedon has tweeted in the last year and a half.

AoS is insignificant compared to the cinematic MCU and Gunn was going to help shape the cosmic side for the foreseeable future.

 

[Dark Raven]

Joss Whedon helped set up AoS, but is pretty hands off on it. He's barely involved. It's his brother, and many other creative minds.

 

[Zarex]

Who wants to be the studio head that hired the guy who joked about child molestation? Stupid Gunn. I hope he saved his money.

If Disney is being consistent they need to recast Sarah Silverman in Ralph Breaks the Internet, remove Hannibal Burris from Spider-Man sequels, fire Whoopie Goldberg from The View, and immediately cancel Family Guy after the Fox acquisition is completed.

 

[NHawk19]

What prompted the tweet mining?

Are we ignoring any growth he's made in the 10 years since those tweets?