Guardians Of The Galaxy 3 Is "On Hold Indefinitely," Says Dave Bautista

@akikisaragi: I'm sorry but if you think Disney will lose ANY money on keeping Gunn you'd be wildly mistaken. Think they sniffed out how America is easily offended with everything recently and decided to preemptively make an unnecessary change

@akikisaragi: firing a guy who made creepy and disturbing statements over a decade before he was hired is not the same as firing someone who was actively employed by you at the time she opened her big fat racist dumb mouth.

Should Gunn have kept his job? Debatable. But let's stop pressing this false equivalent. Its detracting attention from the actual situation.

@Yomigaeru: They have to remain firm on this for (and I hate to bring this up) blatant racism, and the insertion of sexual jokes into children's movies. They cannot afford another snafu about this stuff after working to shed this image.

@ValedictorianXD: Or it could mean less work in the future. Consider that this really isn't Bautista's fight. Bautista isn't the one who got fired, James Gunn is the one who got fired. Ultimately this is between Disney and James Gunn, and i don't see James Gunn being anything but professional about the whole thing. Meanwhile Bautista is out there stirring up s*** against his employer, bad-mouthing them in public, and threatening to quit. All over a termination that (whether you like it or not) is 100% justified. It is entirely possible that future employers will see that behavior and get the idea that he's a liability. If he's going to do this when working for Disney, then what reason is there to believe that he won't do the same thing if he's got a beef with a different movie company?

Again, James Gunn's termination is justified. People are free to not like it, but this was not a wrongful termination. Those tweets are absolutely sufficient to justify terminating an employee. And if there is some dispute, then it should be handled in private between the concerned parties. Instead, Bautista is deliberately pushing this story's presence into the public's eye, trying to leverage public pressure into forcing Disney's hand. That's actually unprofessional as hell, and it's entirely likely that other potential employers will see that as Dave Bautista biting the hand that feeds him, all because he has some beef that should be handled internally. The obvious question would then be, "if we were to hire him, then why wouldn't he do the same thing if he's ever got a disagreement with us?"

@masonshoemocker: Relax, I like Bautista. Just saying it would be easy to recast that role.

@darthbluntsaber:

I doubt the people on Parks and Rec really had an issue with it. They all laughed and so did we. We're being forced to be offended for others now these days. No thanks. Pratt knows the boundaries and he's doing what's best for him.