A reason why I wait on stories of alleged harassment or controversy is because my gut tells me it is far from over. The James Gunn thing is something that is going to continue on for a good while. Disney fired him over some tweets he made years ago and I believe they were rape jokes. Now, he was set on doing a third Guardians of the Galaxy and I believe they were close to starting to shoot the film.
Like a number of stories, both sides of criticism and defense have come. A number of Guardians cast members have been in huge support. Most notably was Dave Bautista. These guys believe that Disney overreacted to this and should have looked into it and heard his side. It's to that point where articles recently have Bautista speaking about quitting his role in the new Guardians and potentially a new script could be in place, scrapping Gunn's script.
Obviously, rape jokes are not really funny, but that was a long time ago. People can change. Anyway, the offensive stuff was not going to fly with Disney. We're seeing baseball players in the news the last few weeks for the wrong reasons with offensive tweets. It's people trying to cause trouble, especially in an age of this MeToo garbage where the movement is often abusing the phrase for purposes and gain. I see this as a big blow to this Cinematic Universe and I kind of see this combined with the performance of Ant-Man 2 as the start of the decline of the modern Marvel film
This is far from over, but I don't think anyone is going to win over Disney. They are a tyrant with too much power and can do whatever they want.
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