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James Gunn is exiting Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

The move comes after conservative personalities resurfaced old tweets in which the filmmaker joked about controversial topics such as pedophelia and rape. Gunn, who has been an outspoken critic of President Donald Trump, has since deleted his Twitter account.

"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," said Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn in a statement.

Before deleting his account, Gunn tweeted, "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."

The tweets came to light after conservative website The Daily Caller dug up the tweets, which were mostly posted in 2008 and 2009. Soon after, conservative personalities were tweeting to followers to confront Gunn at Comic-Con. Gunn had been expected to be at Sony's presentation Friday. It is still unclear if Gunn plans on appearing.

Gunn has been writing the script for Guardians 3, and the movie was expected to begin shooting in Atlanta in the fall for an expected 2020 release date, though Marvel Studios had never officially announced the date. The Guardians movies have been a massive success for Disney and Marvel. The first movie made more than $773 million worldwide while the second made $863 million. The films stood out from other Marvel movies as they were infused with Gunn's off-kilter filmmaking sensibilities that owed more to indie genre movies than slicker cookie cutter studio fare. Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige had previously indicated that Gunn would continue to work with Marvel after Guardians 3 helping shepherd the cosmic side of the studio's universe.

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favrefan said:"Chris Coghlan isn't gonna pay your rent, Jimmy."

Literally 2 of the worst groups at this point in our history are the liberal and conservative head hunters that exhaust themselves uncovering shit from 10 fucking years ago to publicly attack someone.

I'd love to see what some of these fucks had to say at a different time in their lives.

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Yep.

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Amen.

MANY terrible people on BOTH SIDES

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They take your blue collar relief pitching All-Star, you take their precious comic book movie director. That's the Internet Way.

That’s all it is anymore, a competition for who can snitch the best.

Really sucks for the franchise. Gunn was really in his element.

And fuck Disney and their disingenuous bullshit. Like they don’t have executives who are getting away with tons of shady shit.

Which is quite sad and pathetic...we live in the times of the snitch, I guess.

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The Stars and Stripes of the American flag will eventually be replaced by the text "I'm Telling!" above the logos of Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook.

I guess he didn't really believe in Gunn-control?

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

Fuck off, troll.

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There are literally dozens of pages about the shady shit that goes on behind the scenes at Disney ,Inc.

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Walt Disney himself didn't treat the majority of his workers well at all.

He was constantly at odds with major creative talented cartoonists and animators back in the day.

I'm not talking about the #MeToo stuff. I don't know anything about that whatsoever. Disney kept top talent under his thumb, paid them terribly and any whiff of union or strike talk was dealt with harshly.

He was easily threatened by anybody on his staff who exhibited more talent and drive than he... often terminating them on the spot. If I remember correctly, some of those cartoonists eventually banded together and created Looney Tunes.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Yup, it's not good. The only difference with some guy like QCP, though, is that I think his tweets belied someone who was biased in the performance of their government function. Gunn's offensive jokes from years ago aren't showing up in his movies today.

Casualty who forgot to delete the offensive tweets. For immoral people some liberals are rather self-righteous.

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

Exactly. Just like whatshis name the pitches stuff from like 9 years ago doesn't affect anything he does on the mound now...it's not like he's headhunting minorities or something.

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Immoral liberals like Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, Larry Craig, Donald Trum....oh, wait...you said liberals.

Shut up you weirdo hypocrite.

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Left-wing people believe in the end justifying the means. So they feel they can hate other people if they deem their opposition's views as hateful. Only when someone on their side really crosses the line do they cut bait.

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

Ah yes, because right wing loons are just absolute stand up individuals.

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Surprisingly to some most of the #metoo guys were liberals.

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

I can't for the life of me figure out why some of these people and the companies they work for now don't just ignore the People on Twitter and ignore the fake outrage.

Pitcher for the Brewers said some uncouth things as a 17 year old? James Gunn posted some sketchy statements? They did all that before they worked with us and they've been nothing but exemplary partners. So get fucked, people on Twitter.

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You are dangerously close to making Dignified Rube look sane.

#Treadlightly

Sincerely,
Management

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You must act as a man, not a boy.

Well it's time for a pre-emptive Twitter deletion.

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God is the uncaused cause of the universe. He had no beginning and has no end. He is not bound by the laws of the universe he created.

Somehow I just literally discovered Bill Burr ( yesterday lol,) and he had a great rant on basically exactly that .

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Proud member of the white guy grievance committee

It aint the six minutes. Its what happens in those six minutes.

He's got some pretty funny stand ups on Netflix.

He was also a snitch during the red scare.

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Burr is incredible. Actually when I read your posts I hear then in his voice.
You listen to Tom Segura or Chad Daniels?

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"

Very true. I know some people who deem themselves so loving and caring as long as they get what they want to out of everyone else. But turn into the most bat shit crazy mean assholes imaginable when they don't get what they want. These people are called Liberals.

And for too fucking long people have tolerated these asshats and stepped aside and allowed this shit to happen. I say NO. Stand up to these people an do not cow tow to bitches like Maxine Waters and company. For too long we have allowed these firebrands to run roughshod over our ever so "politeness". Lets play in their swamp!!!!

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

Shut up, Nas.

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Disney was pretty strange. So was his brother. I knew a couple who met as workers at Disneyland and both said that Disney hired a lot of gay people who were let us say very OPEN with their gayness and were hit on multiple times and it was condoned by management.

I will also say that my wife and I went with a couple who live in Florida to Disneyworld and I never saw so many white people in my life. I would say that there were maybe 1 or 2% minorities in those parks. Not many minorities in the work force either. Don't know what to make of it but I was really blown away by it.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip

And if the owner of the New York Football Giants has his way, no one will stand for the National Anthem and he will pay any fines levied at his fucked up players.

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An Ode to the Texas man who shot an Antifa terrorist:

Oh, he might have went on livin'
But he made one fatal slip
When he tried to match the Ranger
With the big iron on his hip