Since the twitter storm and controversies have died down, we can discuss the aftermath of this whole ordeal. Gunn was later, after a few months, hired back at Disney and is now in charge of The Guardians of the Galaxy vol.3, as well as Suicide Squad. So, although his career was close to ending, Gunn is now at the helm of two comic book properties in two different cinematic universes. As comic book fan, Gunn is very happy for about this outcome. Work aside, Gunn was able to find a serious girlfriend in the midst of all controversy and she was able to help him through everything. Gunn also worked on bettering himself as a person.

“That amount of love that I felt from my friends, my family, and the people in the community was absolutely overwhelming. In order for me to have fully felt that love for the first time, the thing that needed to happen was the apparatus by which I was feeling falsely loved had to be completely taken away.”

James Gunn

Let us take a minute to appreciate Dave Bautista. Bautista took to Twitter to in order to fight on behalf of Gunn. Bautista told Disney that he would quit from one of their most profitable properties, Guardians of the Galaxy, and he would get this fellow actors to follow if Gunn was not rehired. He spoke on behalf of Gunn and told the world, although Gunn made mistakes, he was a victim. It is thanks to Bautista that this scandal was able to turn around for Gunn.

The Tweets Resurfaced

Eight to Nine years later, the tweets were resurfaced. The jokes Gunn thought back then were in good fun, are no longer funny, or even tolerated, in today’s Politically-Correct climate. Once the tweets resurfaced, Gunn was fired by Disney by CEO Alan Horn. This is what Horn had to say in response:

“The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’s Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him,”

Alan Horn

Hundreds of people took to Twitter to fight either with or against Gunn. But the damage had already been done. But soon on of his best friends, Dave Bautista would jump in the fight to help out Gunn.

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The tweets from Bautista have substantially helped the public perception of Gunn, and helped Gunn get a new job. Over at DC, Gunn was hired to create Suicide Squad, another comic book property. But now, Disney wanted to rehire Gunn, since fan outcry and the threat of loss in money was on their shoulders. Disney saw that losing the Guardians property and a large some of fans would ultimately destroy them, and all business executives care about is money so a decision was made: Gunn would be rehired.

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Back in 2009 and 2010, our client, James Gunn, posted, in his previous words, “funny” tweets onto Twitter, joking about pedophilia and rape, as well other things(shown above). While some did not take notice of these jokes, others just laughed and liked, realizing that this was Gunn’s unique sense of humor. While those tweets escaped the public radar over time, Gunn was able to direct some of the biggest movies of his career, Guardians of the Galaxy vol.1 and 2. Gunn seemed to have Hollywood big-shots respect him even more and fans gawking at his feet, but the tweets of his past would soon return, causing his immediate removal from Disney from CEO Alan Horn. What followed was massive controversy, the (almost)end of a franchise, and the career of Gunn holding on by a thread.

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Our client, James Gunn, is a famous Hollywood script-writer and director. He worked on great films such as Guardians of the Galaxy, Tromeo and Juliet, and the most anticipated film of the century, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed. Gunn made a name for himself in Hollywood, but in a new Twitter Scandal, his whole Reputation was put on the line.