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.
