Disney has fired Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 director 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Gunn due to some past controver๊sial tweets from the filmmaker, which have recently resurfaced, according to .
The director is well-known for bringing 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Guardians of the Galaxy - one of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Marvel movies - and it's sequel, 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, to the big screen, but he will no longer be making t𝐆he third instalment, which was due to start filming in just a few months.
"The offensive attitudes and statements d🌱iscovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him," said Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn in a statement.
In response, Gunn tweeted out a thread (see below), but has since released a more official statement saying: “My words of nearly a decade ago were, at the time, totally failed and unfortunate efforts to be provocative. I have regretted them for many years since — not just because they were stupid, not at all funny, wildly insensitive, and certainly not provocative like I had hoped, but also because they don’t reflect the person I am today or have been for so⭕me time.
“Regardless of how 𓆏much time has passed, I understand and accept the business decisions taken today. Even these many years later, I take full responsibility for the way I conducted myself then. All I can do now, beyond offering my sincere and heartfelt regret, is to be the best human being I can be: accepting, understanding, committed to equality, and far more thoughtful about my public statements and my obligations to our public discourse. To everyone inside my industry and beyond, I again offer my deepest apologies. Love to all.”
1. Many people who have followed my career know when I started, I viewed myself as a provocateur, making movies and telling jokes that were outrageous and taboo. As I have discussed 🎃publicly many times, as I’ve developed as a person, so has my work and my humor.
Whether or not GOTG3 will continue with its set filming schedule is unknown. Gunn recently finished the script - teasing it on - but it's unclear whether Disney will be going ahead with the original script or starting over. Gunn is expected to not appear at the Sony Pictures’ Hall H panel at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:San Diego Comic Con 2018 later today as planned.
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