Bautista "threatened" to ask that he be released from his contract, not to drop out. There's a distinction. He can keep his "threat" and still stay attached to GotG3.
Disney fires James Gunn from "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3"
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That is the most insane rumor I've heard in a while.
Why on earth would they rehire him and then not use him on gotg3?
Yeah, that is odd.
The article says WB is one of them, I wonder if they'd be brave enough to send a second former MCU director to the Worlds of DC. Suicide Squad seemed to have been influenced by GOTG, so I would find it hilarious if wrote and directed one himself.
Actually the article has been updated to say they are using his script.
Is that your takeaway from this Gunn matter? How good or bad some movie will be?
... and once again...contracts. Even Bautista knows better than to pull some childish stunt like that.
Yay! I see this as a fine compromise and a way to still see a version of what Gunn's vision for the finale would have been. He had an arc in mind for all of his characters, and for someone else to completely re-imagine what had been laid out...? Well X3: The Last Stand comes to mind. Not that I think someone else's version of Gv3 would be as bad as X3, but I imagine the deviations could be... glaring and/or jarring.
I love the first Ant-Man movie and think that Peyton Reed (who is now in line to be the first to direct an entire MCU trilogy) did a better than expected job with the material, but who among us would have objected to seeing Edgar Wright's script being used,with only minor alteration to make it more MCU friendly/compatable (IIRC, that was one of the main issues)?
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No, you just need to get over yourself. Those comments were years ago, they were just words, he apologized and made up for it all. Nothing is wrong with others who had a good working relationship standing up for him. There comes a point where bad shouldn't blot out the good, and Gunn made up for his past comments.
I don't buy it but if they did do it I guess they could simply go with the idea that once the heat goes down because people have moved onto the next outrage with this one forgotten or Trump isn't re-elected meaning these alt-right types will loose any power they currently are allowed to have will be gone and you can simply hire him again.
Jason
That is one takeaway. People usually have more than one takeaway on things. It's kind of how the human brain works. See something or hear something that creates who knows how many thoughts and emotions in your head about what you have just seen or heard. We aren't the Borg just yet.
Jason
Pretty much. One broke the law and two didn't.
Suicide Squad was blatantly going for Guardians-type money--especially considering they let the company that did the "oh we so wacky" Bohemian Rhapsody trailer literally have a pass at editing the entire movie--and considering Suicide Squad 2 is seemingly on hold while Birds of Prey is being fast-tracked ... fuck it, let Gunn come up with something for SS2.
Oh, get the fuck out of here with this shit. My downstairs neighbors are black, and my next-door neighbors are Hispanic. If I went out on my balcony and screamed racial slurs at them for an hour, would it be illegal? Not as far as I know. But it would make me a pretty terrible person.
Do you think it's some sort of horrific moral failing to jaywalk, too?
Guardians 3 will be just fine. Let's be honest, 2 was good, but nowhere near as good as the first one, and Marvel can produce films like that without breaking sweat.
Chances are, the characters mostly go their own ways in the next one. I doubt we'll see many of them again with the exception of Rocket and Groot, and let's face it, they'd be the easiest to recast...
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Maybe Gunn could do a modern update on "The Specials" which I think was his first comic book movie back in the 90's or early 2000's. Stared a bunch of superhero's who aren't the big names on one of their days off. In fact some of the names are big enough you could use orginial actors like Thomas Hayden Church,Rob Lowe,Judy Greer etc.
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Actually I liked the second one just as much as the first. You also had a better bad guy in Kurt Russell.
Jason
No shit that drugs ruin lives. People who refuse to do anything about their drug problems have serious issues and are a genuine societal problem (though they deserve treatment, not scorn).
Why you're somehow equating a sober man who makes tens of millions of dollars a year, giving most of it to charity, and who has literally paid his debt to society by serving hard time behind bars, to people who have made horrific jokes about terrible things ... again, get the fuck out of here with that shit.
Which is why people should go to rehab instead of prison because prison doesn't really do much help either. With him though he seems to have gone sober or drug-free or if he has had any relapses he has been able to come back from them without doing anything harmful so I think he is actually a good inspirational story. Especially if you think his movie "Two GIrls and Guy" was him basically playing himself. He seems to come far away from that.
Jason
Eh, disagree. I thought the second was even better than the first, and that it was really ambitious thematically and narratively. I was very excited to see what Gunn would come up with for the third.
It's too bad well probably never find out, though I get from a PR standpoint why Disney fired him. It's a shit situation all around.
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Gunn is done; another director will fill the slot near seamlessly. Bautista will honor his contract and not sink his career. The rest of the cast will perform admirably. The franchise will not suffer, unless doofy fannish outrage causes a mass boycott--which will not happen.
Just my personal predictions, subject to failure as always.
Gunn is done; another director will fill the slot near seamlessly. Bautista will honor his contract and not sink his career. The rest of the cast will perform admirably. The franchise will not suffer, unless doofy fannish outrage causes a mass boycott--which will not happen.
Just my personal predictions, subject to failure as always.
Lots of things ruin lives. Racism can ruin lives. What’s your point?
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