Controversy has rocked the Marvel Cinematic Universe today with the public firing of James Gunn. The writer director of both Guardians of the Galaxy movies will no longer be working on the third instalment.
A series of unsavoury tweets dating back as far as 2010 were spread overnight by right-wing bloggers in the US. Those tweets covered topics such as rape and paedophilia. Though posted in what Gunn says were younger and hot headed days the tweets have caused controversy.
Overnight high profile bloggers and twitter users damned the director for poor behaviour.
Despite apologies from the director earlier in the day his appearance at the Sony Pictures panel at todays comic con was cancelled. Then came the news that Disney had ‘severed all ties’ with the director.
In a statement the studio said:
“The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him.”
More on this story as it develops…
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