Guardians Of The Galaxy 3's James Gunn Fired By Disney After Old Tweets Surface

Disney is pretty low to do this. What about all the racist cartoons with their name on it? How’s that any better? This is why having monopoly companies is bad, cause then they extend their fake family friendly garbage on everyone and everything.

Oh my god! He could have possibly offended someone at some point a decade ago!

No one cares and if they do they are worse than him. Stop being pu**ies Disney.

First of all...Twitter was around 10 years ago?! D*mn, time flies.

Second of all...outrage culture will be the end of us.

Am guessing disney got tired of him and paid someone to dig dirt on him now they can fire him and get total creative control of the guardians franchise, they where pretty harmless tweets, 10 years ago people could say that and depending on the context it woulda been funny.

Watched a Terry Crews interview the other day and he recalled that when he shot Next friday and his character assaulted the pimp in the bathroom, nowadays that scene alone would have been enough for the movie go straight to video.

So much freedom in the land of the liberty, as long you don't speak anything different to what i think.

These are obviously such stupidly immature tweets, but they don't compare to the hateful and dangerous rhetoric that comes from the daily caller.

I've said some pretty stupid stuff as a kid, most of which I regret and I'm glad I don't have any records of those online for the whole world to see since I don't use social media anymore. I've also seen some young adults these days get ragged on for stuff they said when they were in middle and high school but this guy was a fully grown adult so he can't use that excuse. I get he was being silly and all but nowadays, you can't say anything online without someone getting offended.

Screw freaking conservatives ruining everything. You have to be one of the most miserable people in the world to dig that deep just to get at someone.

Because one tweet is going to shut down the good almighty flawless and overpriced Disney F*cking World.

Disney ain’t nothing but a bunch of self righteous pussies, always have been. That’s why I grew up on Nickelodeon. It was silly but at least it was real.

Disney dig that deep? Heh they probably just felt the guy was asking for a wage bump and asked bit too much.

People should be looking at the source of the complaints. It's the same asshole who pushed pizzagate. He literally stated that Gunn's tweets were proof he had uncovered a Hollywood pedo ring. He's just a troll, just like with the ArenaNet incident. It's pretty amazing how easily companies give in to this crap.

There seem to be two fundamental truths in life these days:

1. There's nothing republicans can't ruin.

2. There's nothing republicans can't manipulate democrats into ruining.

Social media is a cancer that carries too much sway over real life. Someone posts some click-bait story about a public figure and if enough lifeless tools get their fake outrage going the life of the person in question is essentially ruined, whether the story is true or not.

The last Jedi was a crime...yet...Nobody got fired.

I feel like they should have maybe done a background check before he made the first two movies.

Fuc? you Disney! More than a decade ago for past mistakes and he get's fired over it. Don't get me wrong Bad thing should have consequence but to get fired over a tweet that has nothing to do with job related and by the way it was more than a decade ago is just not right. The moral of the story here is that he's being a good person Director and how he has acted upon it after it is what matters. Heard nothing but good things and really nothing wrong about the dude since then.

the far right is now employing leftist tactics, I'm sure no one saw that coming...sigh.

I mean, every act should have a consequence. And I don't think anyone should be able to get away with their crimes and mistakes.

But it's not as simple as that. There's also a thing called justice. The punishment should be reasonable given the crime.

And how do you justify a tweet costing a person's job, not to mention that it was 10 years ago and not job related? We're acting all self-righteous now?

So he did something that does not coincide with your values? That's BS to be honest. You cannot change past mistakes, but how you act upon it in the future is what matters. And Disney, you just earned millions from him after that tweet. You don't want to associate yourselves with him, better give back all those money earned if you are indeed the clean institution that you so imply.

Because the internet mistakes are forever.

There's going to be a precedent set, sooner or later, when someone SUES the living $hit out of a company for firing them based on comments made 10 years ago and on THEIR social media sites and WINS. Especially when what they wrote was 10 YEARS AGO. Still, it pays to remember that there is ALWAYS someone keeping tabs on your bs social media sites. ALWAYS.

People still don't learn that you have private social medias when in the face of the public and "professional" ones for career stuff? You'd think people apart of Hollywood of all places, especially during the current era would be aware of this. Most should just delete their social medias while they're ahead and start over.

Normally I would be against someone getting fired for telling jokes, but James Gunn didn't just tell off-color jokes. Apparently, he embedded a suspicious link on his website (his website that he very quickly deleted after the dark jokes from his twitter were being shared), originally by someone who was later arrested for having underage pornography. Apparently, the link was titled "100 Pubescent Girls Touch Themselves".

Executive A: "Holy cow! This guy gets a MASSIVE bonus if he directs a third movie."

Exec B: "So? Hire someone else."

Exec A: "We can't! He signed a contract for all three movies."

Exec B: "What? Why'd you do that?"

Exec A: "We didn't think the movies would be THAT successful. Some funny little space romp, sure, but not this huge thing."

Exec B: "Okay, we can fix this...let's look into our 'Dirt on Employees file for when Needed' because, you know, due diligence is a mandatory part of all hiring practices, especially on leadership figures like directors, in this day and age...hey! Look! He once made some mean tweets that we TOTALLY knew about but didn't really care about back then because he was SO cheap to hire. BUSTED!!"

Video games.

So if you ever had a goal of growing up, maturing, just changing your nature... give up that dream right now. Because if you left any evidence that you were inappropriate at any time, it will be used to judge you for all eternity.

Insane. :-(