James Gunn fired from Guardians of the Galaxy

[Deej 76830]

Which is why I don't understand why anyone famous does social media.  They are risking their livelihood.  A drunk post, a bad joke or words typed in anger can end your career.

Because they crave the attention. It's a drug.

[atomheartbevo 89727]

3 hours ago, kevwun said:

Which is why I don't understand why anyone famous does social media.  They are risking their livelihood.  A drunk post, a bad joke or words typed in anger can end your career.

How else are Armenians gonna become billionaires?

[HtownHorn 14724]

5 hours ago, Deej said:

7 hours ago, kevwun said:

Which is why I don't understand why anyone famous does social media.  They are risking their livelihood.  A drunk post, a bad joke or words typed in anger can end your career.

Because they crave the attention. It's a drug.

Yep. That crazy doctor that sued Trump for blocking him on twitter would probably off himself if he had several thousand less twitter followers.

As far as the pedo jokes, I think with there being a very real problem with it in Hollywood and it being exposed almost weekly, I think people are tired of the sweeping it under the rug with shitty non-funny jokes.

Edited July 27, 2018 by HtownHorn

[Buzzrock 14922]

Well yeah, we only want funny well-written pedo jokes.

[BigDHornfan 6549]

13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

How else are Armenians gonna become billionaires?

By fucking Ray J.

Edited July 27, 2018 by BigDHornfan

[mdmost 43004]

 

 

 

Edited July 30, 2018 by mdmost

[ConferenceRoom 6144]

They're in on it, too. 

[wild_turkey 3166]

I've never seen the GotG movies and didn't know who James Gunn is. Just looked at his IMDB list and I haven't seen anything he's done. Don't really care for that style of humor, rape jokes, pedo jokes, etc.

All of that being said, this seems like a lot of faux outrage because Hollywood, comedians, the internet, Twitter, and this very website are well known for their dark and often inappropriate sense of humor. This site (and the former site) have a long history of making jokes out of otherwise inappropriate things. A tragedy occurs and people line up to make puns about it. The real life rape (Baylor, Cosby, Weinstein, etc) and pedo (Penn State) situations have been followed by countless jokes using those entities as punchlines. That isn't exclusive to this site by any means. I feel like that's the internet in general and we all become desensitized to it, whether that is right or wrong.

Disney can fire someone over twitter stuff if they feel like the public backlash would hurt their bottom line. I fully get that and don't blame them one bit. I don't necessarily understand where the average person draws the line for what they consider funny vs. tolerable vs. ethically wrong. Seems like everyone tolerates this stuff right up until someone crosses a political line or whatever, then that person is suddenly ostracized. It's not like these particular Twitter comments were ever hidden from view.

[henrygandorf 29192]

it's also interesting to see how the general public reacts to certain individuals when they get in trouble.

i know people have said they won't watch kevin spacey movies anymore.  i get that.  or won't watch louis ck stand-ups.  his was way more weird than evil/illegal, but sure, why not.  but then ask if they'll watch a movie produced by weinstein (arguably the biggest monster of them all), and the answers are mixed.  maybe they'll watch if they don't realize, or don't have to look at the person?  his name is on 300+ movies.  many of which he didn't have anything to do with personally.

in gunn's case, i would think by the time it came out, most people wouldn't care if his name was on it or not.  i highly doubt there would be enough people boycotting the film to affect the gross of the movie.  disney made a proactive move, and they've got bigger things to worry about.  the real question i guess is whether the movie will suffer because of a different, new director, causing the gross to be lower after shitty word of mouth.  i would think that's just as likely.

[Buzzrock 14922]

21 hours ago, wild_turkey said:

I've never seen the GotG movies and didn't know who James Gunn is. Just looked at his IMDB list and I haven't seen anything he's done. Don't really care for that style of humor, rape jokes, pedo jokes, etc.

All of that being said, this seems like a lot of faux outrage because Hollywood, comedians, the internet, Twitter, and this very website are well known for their dark and often inappropriate sense of humor. This site (and the former site) have a long history of making jokes out of otherwise inappropriate things. A tragedy occurs and people line up to make puns about it. The real life rape (Baylor, Cosby, Weinstein, etc) and pedo (Penn State) situations have been followed by countless jokes using those entities as punchlines. That isn't exclusive to this site by any means. I feel like that's the internet in general and we all become desensitized to it, whether that is right or wrong.

Disney can fire someone over twitter stuff if they feel like the public backlash would hurt their bottom line. I fully get that and don't blame them one bit. I don't necessarily understand where the average person draws the line for what they consider funny vs. tolerable vs. ethically wrong. Seems like everyone tolerates this stuff right up until someone crosses a political line or whatever, then that person is suddenly ostracized. It's not like these particular Twitter comments were ever hidden from view.

It's getting ridiculous. A friend of a friend who is 39 and dating a 23 year old was accosted at a restaurant recently by some drunk asshole calling him a pedophile. Completely ruined their ten year anniversary.

[Chewbacca 7780]

13 minutes ago, Buzzrock said:

It's getting ridiculous. A friend of a friend who is 39 and dating a 23 year old was accosted at a restaurant recently by some drunk asshole calling him a pedophile. Completely ruined their ten year anniversary.

This is how it's done, folks.  

[Surlybastard 65]

The real lesson is that edgy humor doesn't translate to social media well. If you are a stand up comic making edgy jokes people will generally come to see you expecting them and be ok with it. If you are just randomly saying edgy shit to try and get a laugh or rise out of people on your social media wall then expect to get crucified for it you are even semi famous. Honestly anyone over the age of 20 or 25 should know better.

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

It's getting ridiculous. A friend of a friend who is 39 and dating a 23 year old was accosted at a restaurant recently by some drunk asshole calling him a pedophile. Completely ruined their ten year anniversary.

Holy crap! Well played.

[freyguy 4278]

Would sure like this to turn itself around.  I do love hearing the overstated rumors of a cast backlash/boycott, but we all know actors are a dime a dozen in Hollywood and would have no power over an entity like the Mouse.  I'll keep crossing my fingers that this is all somehow a major farce to build up vol.3.

[DougO 5250]

I watched Three Billboards last night. It made me think Gunn should have made the movie from the stuff he got in trouble for tweeting, so instead of getting fired he would be getting showered with awards.

[Michael Knight 12988]

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The production of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is being put on hold for the time being as Marvel and Disney regroup on the project, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

Sources say that crewmembers, which is, at this stage, a small group that was prepping for preproduction, are being dismissed and are free to look for new work.

 

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Marvel and Disney are taking a measured approach in their search for a filmmaker — one source says that Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi recently had a meeting with Marvel, but it is unclear what project was discussed — and with good reason.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/guardians-galaxy-3-production-hold-james-gunn-firing-1137400

 

 

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James Gunn may have been fired by Walt Disney Studios from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but many in Hollywood are looking to work with the controversial filmmaker.

Gunn, who was fired July 20 after past offensive tweets came to light, has been approached by several top producers and executives at major studios dangling big film projects, sources tell The Hollywood Reporter.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/james-gunn-demand-major-studio-movies-disney-firing-1133161

[NateHitch 1282]

On 7/27/2018 at 7:39 AM, Buzzrock said:

Well yeah, we only want funny well-written pedo jokes.

Ask and you shall receive.  Sarah Silverman and Patton Oswalt are at the top of their pedo joke game

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/d5tkmb/the-sarah-silverman-program-sarah-s-good-van

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/6gv3fq/the-sarah-silverman-program-creepy-van-guy

 

[mdmost 43004]

You're a QAnon follower, aren't you?

[Ben Tobin 374]

6 minutes ago, mdmost said:

You're a QAnon follower, aren't you?

Or just a fan of really, really shitty "comedy"

[Michael Knight 12988]

 

[freyguy 4278]

This is the one small act that starts turning the world around.

[Parliament 14260]

So he isn't a pervert anymore?  Good news.

[mdmost 43004]

He never was. He just told bad jokes 8 years ago that dickheads that hated his politics used to get him fired by Disney. Thankfully, Disney finally came to their senses and stopped giving in to terrorists. 

Edited March 15, 2019 by mdmost

[Girdwood 118]

It’s all about the money, money, money. 

GOTG 3 would have sucked without him directing and Disney obviously knew that. 

[Dutchrudder 11141]

Good, GotG 1 and 2 are top 5 MCU movies. I'm hoping 3 lives up to that standard with Adam Warlock being part of the main story. Hopefully they have the time to do this movie right and complete the trilogy without any more disruptions.