(Newswire.net— August 1, 2018) — Disney Corporation fired the director of the third The Guardians Of The Galaxy movie James Gun after finding his 10-year-old tweets inappropriate. Now the Disney management braces for impact with toughest crew in the Galaxy.
Last month, the director collided with Disney’s top management after old jokes he tweeted back in 2008 and 2009 on topics of rape and pedophilia. The tweets resurfaced drawing a huge backlash from the community on social networks.
The tweets were dug up by right-wing firebrand Mike Cernovich looking to bring the arch-liberal Gunn down a peg. The move created too much unwanted attention so Disney management decided to walk down the path of political correctness and simply get rid of the writer and director of Guardians Of The Galaxy saga that became a huge success from the first moment it hit theatres.
Gunn apologized, his tweets were deleted but so was he from the list of Disney employees. According to Disney chairman Alan Horn, the tweets are “indefensible” although they were just an attempt of the director to make a joke that just didn’t come out right.
The Guardians Of The Galaxy crew, however, stood by the man who is not only the heart and soul of the renowned sci-fi saga but a man for whom it is worth picking a fight with the world’s most powerful film company.
Some 200,000 signatures have been raised and the cast members, which include Chris Pratt, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel and Zoe Saldana, wrote that the director’s story “isn’t over” yet and that they look forward to working with Gunn again.
The actors said that Gunn was a “good person” who was “put on trial” without a chance to defend. They blamed the “growing political divide” and launched a wakeup call arguing that the Disney management needs to “stop weaponizing mob mentality”.
Outspoken liberal writer/director James Gunn was not the only one in hot water over something said or written. On May 29th ABC, a subsidiary of Disney, fired the Trump supporter Roseanne Barr from her show Roseanne, after she tweeted racial remarks about a former Obama official.
Others learned their lesson quickly. The writer and director of Star Wars: The Last Jedi (another Disney production) Rian Johnson, deleted his entire twitter history fearing he may have violated Disney’s „moronic“ retroactive bad joke policy.