{"id":44342,"date":"2018-08-16T07:28:48","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T11:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=44342"},"modified":"2018-08-20T18:41:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T22:41:55","slug":"disney-stands-firm-on-james-gunns-guardians-3-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2018\/08\/16\/disney-stands-firm-on-james-gunns-guardians-3-firing\/","title":{"rendered":"Disney Stands Firm On James Gunn\u2019s GUARDIANS 3 Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Director James Gunn will remain fired from the upcoming Guardians Of The Galaxy, Vol 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

So is the end result of a meeting between the director and Disney studio chief Alan Horne held earlier this week, according to Variety<\/a>. Although the trade reports that the meeting was \u201ccivil and professional,\u201d it did not yield the result that fans of the Marvel Studios franchise were hoping for \u2013 the reinstatement of Gunn as director.<\/p>\n

Gunn was fired from his directorial position last month after a far-right \u201cjournalist\u201d resurrected some offensive tweets Gunn made a decade ago, which he had previously apologized for, disavowed and deleted from the social media platform. But that didn\u2019t stop Horne from making a snap decision to fire Gunn summarily. Online reaction among both fans and genre journalists was critical of Horne\u2019s actions, pointing out that Gunn is a different, better person and that one of the themes of the previous two Guardians Of The Galaxy<\/strong> films has been that anyone has the capacity to grow, mature and become a better person. In addition to the vocal support Gunn received from numerous colleagues and friends, the Guardians<\/strong> ensemble cast released an open letter of support for the director.<\/p>\n

The possibility that Disney could reverse their decision first gained credibility late last week when a report stated that Marvel was engaging in some back channel conversations with Horne. But even then, the report called those talks a \u201clong shot\u201d for getting Gunn back in the director\u2019s chair for Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Marvel is now in the position where it will have to find itself a director for the third movie. Gunn had been in preproduction on Guardians 3<\/strong> at the time of his firing with shooting scheduled for later this fall. Since they are keeping Gunn\u2019s screenplay for the film, Marvel will need to hire someone and bring them up to speed rather quickly if they still want to hit that start date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Disney honcho Alan Horne stands firm on dismissing the GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY franchise director.<\/div>\n

[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[8961,5571],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-44342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-3","8":"tag-james-gunn"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44342"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=44342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}