James Gunn was fired from Disney’s
James Gunn was rehired by Disney on Friday to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 after being removed from the project for sharing offensive tweets.
In July 2018, a series of controversial tweets from Gunn, 52, on sensitive matters such as sexual assault, AIDS, pedophilia and the Holocaust, were unearthed.
In 2009, Gunn had tweeted about how he enjoyed „when little boys touch me in my silly place.“ Another tweet from that year mocked rape victims: „The best thing about being raped is when you’re done being raped and it’s like ‚whew this feels great, not being raped!'“
These decade-old tweets led Disney to act swiftly in response by yanking Gunn from the Guardians franchise. „The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’s 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, according to Variety.
