Disney wasted little time in firing James Gunn from “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” after offensive tweets from his past resurfaced. Now, just one day later, pushback to that decision can be seen in both Dave Bautista’s declaration that he’s “not ok” with Gunn’s firing and a petition calling on Disney to re-hire him.
“I’m smart enough to know this most likely won’t change anything but hopefully, this could get Disney to realize the mistake they made and not do it again in the future,” the petition begins. “I agree on the point that if people say a bunch of stupid shit while working for a studio, the studio has full right to fire him over the possible controversy. This situation is very different though as he made these jokes years before he was working for Disney and also the fact that they were jokes.
“I’m smart enough to know this most likely won’t change anything but hopefully, this could get Disney to realize the mistake they made and not do it again in the future,” the petition begins. “I agree on the point that if people say a bunch of stupid shit while working for a studio, the studio has full right to fire him over the possible controversy. This situation is very different though as he made these jokes years before he was working for Disney and also the fact that they were jokes.
- 7/21/2018
- by Michael Nordine
- Indiewire
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