I still can’t believe just how quickly Horn caved and gave Gunn the boot. I honestly can’t think of a single PR disaster in recent memory where someone was let go so suddenly. I think the last one I can think of is when Justine Sacco was fired while on her flight after her AIDs joke. 

My thoughts to your fingers. I would be surprised if we even saw someone like a Ron Howard take over the project at this point. The thought that Disney may end up just throwing someone desperate for work on 3, or someone like a Brett Ratner on it is worrying to say the least.

He goes ballistic.  Here's the rest.

For anyone interested, Screenrant has a pretty long read that covers most of Disney’s ongoing issues with Guardians of the Galaxy and James Gunn. This particular section sums up why I also feel companies like Disney will need to change how they go about handling PR problems with the proliferation of social media as a…

Good stuff. Some of the CG in the movie I had no idea it was CG. For example Tony Star and Pepper in the park. The city background.

Had a longer than expected meeting today, so my usual morning post is pretty late.

Just so we’re clear. You are asserting that this line from GOTG...is a “rape joke”:

Rocket and Groot were hired by Yondu to track down, abduct and bring Peter Quill back to him for a sizeable reward. A reward they had not yet claimed at that point. PrimarilyALurker already provided the definition of “booty” in the context that it was used in the dialogue. Peter Quill was their plunder, they were the…

“While Gunn is important to the Guardians franchise, it can survive without him.”

Yeah, fuck nuance.

If you don’t want to take risks in comedy then, yeah, stick to the low-hanging fruit. That is very safe advice... particularly if you plan on submitting your resume to Disney or... Samantha Bee. We could all stand to be exposed to less low-end edgy comedy.

I hate it when right-wingers win, and damned if they haven’t been winning a lot lately. 

It sounds just like the outrage for when the “grab by the pussy” tape come out. That was years ago, and he was jokingly telling a story

Gunn’s “jokes” — if that’s what they were

I can see why you live in the grays.

But where in that situation is rape/sexual assault treated like a funny topic? Because I don’t see where the movie wants us to laugh at Peter being raped. 

This is bad for Marvel, bad for the fans, and bad for Disney. Literally nobody supports this except for Alan Horn and MAGA-bros who’re cheering the fact that the guy who came up with Pizzagate got Disney to fire someone for something they’d already personally apologized for five years ago. Alan Horn needs to go.

In order for this analogy to actually work, you have to point out to me a single one of those Gunn tweets where he play-acted or role-played the part of a pedophile and dressed for the part.

Will GotG 3 be the most expensive movie ever directed by Alan Smithee?

Weak-ass trolling, already done.