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The Internet Reacts To James Gunn Being Fired From Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3

I'm still in shock. Who on earth would have believed that Disney would fire Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 director James Gunn - a man who took a bunch of D-list unknown comic-book characters and turned them into a billion dollar franchise and was on the cusp of shooting the hugely anticipated third instalment? His removal was reportedly the result of Gunn calling out Pizza-Gate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec on Twitter. In revenge, Posobiec and white supremacist Mike Cernovich scoured Gunn's twitter history, found some dirt and began a campaign to send it on to Disney to punish Gunn for disrespecting President Trump.
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I’m still in shock. Who on earth would have believed that Disney would fire Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 director James Gunn? After all, the man took a bunch of D-list comic book characters and turned them into a billion dollar franchise and was on the cusp of shooting the hugely anticipated third installment.

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His removal was reportedly the result of the filmmaker calling out Pizza-Gate conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec on Twitter. In revenge, Posobiec and white supremacist Mike Cernovich scoured Gunn’s Twitter history, found some dirt and began a campaign aimed at Disney designed to punish Gunn for disrespecting them and President Trump.

Needless to say, the studio bending over backwards to please fascist chuds hasn’t gone down particularly well on Twitter, with the internet reacting as so:

https://twitter.com/FreddyInSpace/status/1020398915018022912

https://twitter.com/thelindsayellis/status/1020398829399523328

Perhaps the only optimistic outlook on this is that Cernovich has pulled the same stunt before – and the firing was quickly reversed. I’m talking about when progressive comedian, actor and talk show host Sam Seder was fired by MSNBC following an aggressive campaign revolving around his Twitter history. Realizing they’d been had – and being seriously unsettled by their actions being cheered on by the far right – MSNBC quickly offered him his job back. After all was said and done, Seder commented: “If you decide to let this guy [Cernovich] be the arbiter of what is and is not appropriate, understand who he is.”

These are words Disney should take to heart. Gunn’s Tweets and comments were widely discussed before Guardians of the Galaxy was released, so it’s bizarre that the studio has suddenly decided to act on them now, throw one of the best creative minds under the bus and let production on one of their biggest future releases collapse into chaos.

Nobody’s going to come out of this situation looking good and I’d imagine that there’s going to be an enormously angry fan campaign battling to reinstate Gunn – and if I know MCU fans, it’ll eclipse whatever anger the far right can muster.


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I'm a writer/editor who's been at the site since 2015. Love writing about video games and will crawl over broken glass to write about anything related to Hideo Kojima. But am happy to write about anything and everything, so long as it's interesting!