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Disney Fires James Gunn From 'Guardians of the Galaxy' Over Offensive Tweets
Social media controversy erupted when some old and very offensive tweets of James Gunn's resurfaced - and now Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy visionary has been dropped from the franchise that made him a worldwide icon.
NSFW warning for some of the content in the article; namely the above referenced tweets.


http://comicbook.com/marvel/2018/07/20/ ... e-tweets/?

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NAMBLA? Yikes.

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Always thought he was a weird hire for Disney considering his "edgy" earlier work.

That said, are they going to fire Robert Downey Jr for the stuff he was doing earlier in his career? Doubt it.

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thrill wrote:Always thought he was a weird hire for Disney considering his "edgy" earlier work.

That said, are they going to fire Robert Downey Jr for the stuff he was doing earlier in his career? Doubt it.
If he posted anything bad on Twitter, they might....

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They haven't fired Johnny Depp from the Pirates movies for physically abusing his wife.

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I’m fine with him getting canned but he apologized for the same tweets 6 years ago and Disney hired him knowing about them. Those are pretty typical of “edgy” jokes at the time and like Gunn said they’re also pretty lame.

However, this was all being pushed by Mike Cernovich who is an alt-right guy, an actual rapist who claims date rape doesn’t exist. He got a guy temporarily fired from MSNBC before they realized they’d been bad and hired him back.
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MrCrowesGarden wrote:They haven't fired Johnny Depp from the Pirates movies for physically abusing his wife.
Odd isn't it.

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pioneer98 wrote:
Put it in the "sounds false but true" thread?

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