Disney cuts ties with 'Guardians of the Galaxy' filmmaker James Gunn over unearthed tweets about pedophilia

[quote]One of the now-deleted tweets said, “I like when little boys touch me in my silly place.”

One of DL's 'no-no hole' queens.

He's the poor man's J. J. Abrams!

Wow.

[quote] Mike Cernovich

Cunt

How far back did these assholes look?

He’s been tweeting a lot of truths about the treasonous shithead.

R5 2008. He was foolish to get into all of these Twitter wars and not delete his past offensive tweets. He had to know one of his enemies would go digging for dirt.

R6 is correct. The Mouse does not fuck around, they had no choice but to fire him.

He's been "kirked" by the Mouse

I thought it was an overreaction but then I remembered Disney. The second Guardians was just the first one minus the freshness and novelty so maybe it's for the best

R9, I thought so too, at first. Then I read some of the tweets. I wish I hadn't, that's how bad some of them were.

There's being edgy, and then there's joking about NAMBLA and diddling little boys. The latter never ends well for anyone's career.

Is he actually gay?

Isn't this the guy who was calling out Jared Leto for shit? Glass houses baby

I did not know this until I started watching Gilmore Girls on Netflix-- Kirk (Sean Gunn) is James Gunn's brother.

Look, its unfortunate but if I were Disney brass I would have done the same thing.

When it comes to kids, zero tolerance is acceptable.

And frankly if you want to go into this biz, clear YOUR HISTORY clean it up before you sign a contract with Disney.

[quote] clear YOUR HISTORY clean....

I did that! But there's a Wayback Machine!!!

Don't read the tweets. They're far worse than I expected.

Who wants to bet Kevin Feige is begging Taika Waititi to take over? He'd be a perfect replacement.

James Gunn's Worldwide gross for Guardians Vol 1 & 2 -- $1.6 BILLION dollars.

He looks like he's transitioning into Jane Lynch in the photo at OP's link. Ge started out at Troma and probably thought he was the next John Waters, without understanding how John Waters works. No great loss. The deacshit that 'exposed' him, though, is best known for propagating Pizzagate and has posted many disgusting rape fantasies himself.

TheVerge posted a picture of some of the tweets. Some appear to be as recent as 2012.

Jokes often contain a grain of truth. His jokes weren't even funny.

#MeToo

It's just a weird thing to joke about, it would be about 9,000th on my list of tasteless things to say. Now when is Bryan Singer being ousted?

I don't understand people who are too stupid and/or lazy to clean up their social media history.

Someone who obsessively makes pedo jokes over the course of several years is probably more than a little off. Cleaning up their social media is the least of their problems.

I'd like to know what Jenna was/is thinking.

Same, R24. I knew a dominatrix back over a decade ago who had her internet presence scrubbed, for a price of course. You can find her name but not one photo anywhere. It's important for everyone to be vigilant about that, never mind celebrities.

That’s just it, though, R24. I don’t think you really can expunge everything, even if you tried. Someone could’ve taken a screenshot, or saved it another way.

Better to either stay off social media entirely, or maintain some semblance of anonymity.

True, there's always a chance someone could dig up something.

Are there tweets suggesting he went to Bryan Singer parties?

I continue to be flabbergasted by how ‘smart’ people are their own worst enemies on social media and tweet out dumbass, lame shit that shows then to have the sense of humour of the grossest high school bully-boys.

Yet these morons fail to see that their Dear Diary type tweets are going out on a global platform - which of course could impact their professional lives.

It’s like the Musk idiocy over the Thai rescue. These people are really not that bright! They maybe good at aspects of business or making money - or making a film or whatever - but they’re clearly not well-rounded, well-adjusted thoughtful individuals.

On the upside - even if your life seems boring and mundane at times - you can see the tweets of these idiots and take comfort in not being a colossal douchebag like them. Seriously - if that’s what they’re really like - why would anyone want to be friends or have a relationship with them? Clearly it’d just be for proximity to great wealth. Urgh!

Hollywood is going to be the cause of their own undoing. They've been hiding this junk for years and now their enemies can easily connect the dots between the suspected pedos and blast out the news via social media. It's Hollywood's own fault for acting as a safe space for pedos.

I'm with everyone else. There's something not quite right about a 40-something year old man who makes joke after joke about fucking little boys. It would've been different if he was a 20-something y.o. douche, or if he only made a joke of that nature one time.

Does he have a history of drug usage?

It was Gunn's current Twitter discussion with conservative Ben Shapiro that was his downfall. Shapiro took offense at something Gunn said about him --

[quote] "personally I think even Ben Shapiro's mother should unfollow him."

[quote] "Mark Duplass (a friend of Gunn) tweeting how you should follow an asshole (Ben Shapiro) because he thinks it's the kind thing to do simply can't be the bar for moral outrage."

After those insults, Shapiro's conservative friends started to unearth the old Gunn tweets that got him fired today. Maybe it was inevitable that someone would find them, but it happened today because of the Twitter-fight with Ben Shapiro.

Didn't he also apologize for these like 5 years ago? Why fire him now?

Did he say "Grab 'em by the pussy!"?

It's terrible that it took so long for him finally to suffer some consequences for his actions. He should have been put out of work a long time ago. Nevertheless, it was only a matter of time before people would be forced to stop condoning him.

R34 because of MeToo# and Hollywood execs not wanting the Twitter mob to connect him to Bryan Singer, Gary Goddard, Dan Schneider and so on.

James, I'll pray for you.

He’s probably a pedo or aleast looks at child porn irl. Too many pedo jokes...

You could tell there's something wrong with him just by looking at him. That should have raised a flag.

[quote]He's the poor man's J. J. Abrams!

JJ Abrams has proven to be highly overrated.

You can delete your tweet, for all the good that'll do. Because the Library of Congress has been archiving tweets since 2010. Through 2017 they archived EVERY tweet. Starting in 2018 they are being more selective, for storage reasons.

And they're not the only ones. Most people don't realize that Twitter makes this available to pretty much anyone who's willing to request it - by topic, hashtag, poster, whatever. It's a really big thing in social science research. Law enforcement makes use of it, too. Which is an issue of concern for researchers, who don't want their work used to, for example, locate and identify specific posters and/or participants in mass demonstrations that the researchers were covering.

And yet Jim Jordan still sits in Congress. Conservacunts never pay for their sins, do they?

I'm pretty certain Jim Jordan also has been taken off the list of Disney directors.

but has he been driven in shame from the Congress and everywhere else, R44. With torches and pitchforks? That is all I ask.

He acknowledges he was trying to be ‘provocative’ ... but the jokes aren’t even amusing and they weren’t that long ago. It raises a red flag. There’s something off about the comments, like they’re not actually jokes. And the worst part is how old he was when he made them.

According to Twitter, he has a brother named Sean Gunn who has a similar sense of humor.

Sean Gunn‏ @seangunn · 13 Jun 2009

Who's isn't? (RT @dragonflycurls: only if your idea of love is a 16 year old boy dressed up as a 12 year old girl)

His brother, Sean is also in GoTG. It looked like he may play a bigger role in the next film. I wonder how that'll turn out.

Jesus Christ!

For some reason, I thought James Gunn was younger, but he’s 51 years old! He was in his early 40s when writing those tweets. He claims that he has changed drastically since then, and he’s not the same person anymore. Who the fuck changes that drastically from their early 40s to early 50s?!

More Sean Gunn.

Severed ties?? Lol. Bitch was FIRED.

The guy who got him fired wrote about jerking off in front of a woman but James gets fired.

Gunn is 51. So he wrote these in his 40s. Hard to claim it was a sign of his 'immaturity'.

Men are trash.

Not funny but not nearly as shocking as advertised.

Imagine if all the Dataloungers got outed?

Half of us would be looking for a new job.

[quote]Because the Library of Congress has been archiving tweets since 2010.

Is this true? Nice to think I’m published in such an august place as the Library of Congress.

R58, only people writing about their pedo fantasies and racists rants would be worried about that. I'm good.

Damn wtf is wrong with Hollywood?

It’s almost like I can enjoy movies anymore.

They need those warnings like they have for animals: “no children or women or men were victimized, exploited or raped by the makers of his film.”

This guy’s a freak. He deserves to be canceled.

You’re equating tweets, albeit disgusting and creepy ones, with victimizing and raping someone?!

I agree this guy should be persona non grata, but not for the reasons you stated.

Yup r62. Don’t like it? Fuck off. Free country

Apologizing for the jokes are not enough. He needs to clarify that he's not a pedo. Did he do that yet?

^is

R63, nobody said I didn’t like it.

Just wanted to call out how stupid it is.

R62, sounds like people you read or see who use as a defense is that they did not actually purchase or participate in the kiddie porn found on their computer. Regardless, this would be a prolonged PR nightmare for Disney to keep him that would extend to other films through 2020. Juice ain't worth the squeeze. Feige/Marvel brillantly set up a system that allows for anyone in front or behind the scenes can be replace without missing a beat. Something to be studied.

R63, yes, and in this free country, a company can fire you if you violate a morals clause in your contract. Free market and capitalism. It is just a company protecting its brand.

[quote] Straight white men are trash.

FTFY R56.

Yeah, R68, cause we know there are no straight black men that are trash. Not even the guy with 43 kids, right?

Fucking race-baiter.

Mike Cernofuck gets away with what he does because literally not one person outside of his stupid racist bubble gives a shit what he’s doing. He has to wait for his cheques to clear from the White Citizens Council to clear and they have to wait for their cheques from Putin to clear before they can eat.

Having said that James Gunn is a fucking dipshit. But also, Now that he’s unemployed, he’ll will go after Conservatives even harder.

[quote]Damn wtf is wrong with Hollywood?

I wonder whether there is some correlation (not causation) between being successful in creative endeavors and a particular mindset or point of view. No, I don't mean creative people are all rapists and pedos.

But, I wonder whether a source for some (not all) creative people is their own slightly unbalanced psychology. Whether it's stuff like fantasy wish fulfillment or exorcising personal demons, perhaps some (not all) of the creative activity is an outlet for some of these people.

Not playing amateur psychologist, but just thinking out loud - a lot of folks act out, say and do outrageous things, etc. for attention or to cast themselves as outsiders, rather than being rejected by society. Is it any wonder that these folks would both revel in the celebrity and adulation of Hollywood, as well as have a past filled with questionable behavior and judgment?

I'm not excusing anything. It's just an interesting question about the underlying thinking of some of these people. Or, it could just be observation bias - we only hear about the Hollywood folks because they are famous while there are equal numbers of other idiots out there saying and doing the same level of stupid. It's probably a combination of both.

Dave Bautista stands up for James Gunn

People who attack groups of people, regardless of what type of groups of people, always have something bad about themselves to hide. That's why they attack others.

I don't think there is ANY connection between being creative and this particular psychology.

Pedo execs favor the company of other pedos. Why wouldn't they? They need each other to create a secret, protective community that can successfully prey on children and teens. These execs give their fellow pedos jobs, promote them and proclaim them geniuses. Even though the douche Bryan Singer was a director his other important function was to throw underage parties for his pervert friends.

Some pervy types try to push the notion that their would be no great creativity without pervs but it is all self-serving BS.

^there

Gunn was an indie filmmaker working for Troma, and the Troma folks tweeted edgelord crap like this all the time. It was branding.

As someone said above, you can see he was talking to others and RTing their tasteless jokes, too. It was a whole clique.

He stopped acting like an idiot a few years before Disney hired him, and apologized for his behavior multiple times.

He changed. The people who fake change like Roseanne always slip up. He didn't. Like several of the guys I knew in the 2000s who were big Troma and offensive indie movie fans, he realized how shitty he was and moved on. (One of these guys even apologized to me for once programming some indie horror about how gays were evil creatures trying to take over the world).

So here we have a guy who was open about his past, who grew and improved just like the online purity mobs insist people do, and they still want to ruin his life.

They let alt-right scum tell them that Gunn is probably fucking babies RIGHT NOW and nothing less than COMPLETE RUIN will be acceptable.

It's ridiculous. It's obvious that people want drama and to feel they have some kind of control over others, rather than really caring about issues.

R76 you may be totally correct which is why I’m reserving judgement. I honestly don’t know much about him to form an opinion. But I did look at that post with his offensive tweets and I will say, they are highly disgusting, andcwhats most troubling is that there seem to be a NAMBLA vibe in them. That bothers me a great deal. It is repeated. But as I said, I’m going to learn more about him, and I do also believe that if he’s a strong warrior for our side, then he has a target on his back.

^NAAMMBBLLAA it removed my correctly typed acronym (understandably)

R76 it’s only been a few years since he “changed”. He may still slip back to his old ways.

Good job Disney. If any of us had these type of stuff on our twitter feeds I'm sure our jobs would be in the right to fire us as well.

By the way, those talking about Hollywood's downfall are crazy, the only thing that will replay Hollywood is the Chinese film industry. I wouldn't want to watch Asian centered action films every time I go to the theater. I'll take Hollywood any day of the week. HW only seems worse because the people are famous, but Hollywood is funded by private businessmen (and woman) so this is an international issue not Hollywood specifically.

He has given the perception that he might be a pedo. Is he married? Does he have a girlfriend? What is his deal? He's a 50 year old making comic book movies and he has a history of making pedo comments.

But it's ridiculous to ruin someone now because "he might turn into a scumbag in the future."

You can say that about anyone.

And the N*MBLA thing was a "hilarious" joke to straight broa 5-10 years ago.

I know it's hard to remember but we were relatively safe and content back then, and that lead to a lot of jokes about things that aren't really funny, because many thought these hateful groups were weak and harmless. We know better now, but joking that you're totally down with NMBLA or Westboro or the KKK was common back then.

Seriously you surely remember this. We got jokes like that on DL pretty regularly.

*bros

But r83, he made repeated jokes about it. Over and over. It sounded like a slight obsession almost. I don’t know. I just think it is a red flag to make jokes about that particular topic over and over.

It's like Louis CK. He continually talked about his perviness but hid behind the old "it's just a joke" line.

This guy has always been a douche. I remember when he won some fake award for Guardians, he gave this cringey as fuck speech about how it was a bunch of outsiders making a movie for outsiders.

Please, you had a budget of 300 mil and made your movie for Disney. Stop trying to claim outsider credibility when you’re literally just feeding grist for the mill.

And as for your “edgy” film? You used 70’s hits. Groundbreaking.

What a freak.

Oh stop it r76, there is nothing normal about kid fucking jokes, there just isn't, that is a joke NOBODY would even think about making. I don't know why people would choose this hill to die on, this guy makes fucking comic book movies, who cares? Shit directors are a dime a dozen.

Exaggeration, r85. In the tweets posted by your pal Jack Posobiec, there are five tweets over the course of years that were "pedo jokes." Plus three that others told which he RTed.

And more exaggeration from r89. No one is dying on this hill and losing a career or reputation for not buying the alt-right reasoning behind all this.

As I say every time we have a thread like this, I can't understand how DLers can clutch their pearls over these things. In the last couple of weeks I've seen multiple people here say all Muslims, women, immigrants and trans should be murdered. Almost no one says a thing about it.

Cernovich has his next two targets in sight.

The Wrap: After James Gunn Ouster, Mike Cernovich Turns Toward Comedians Patton Oswalt, Michael Ian Black

Is Mike Cernovich looking to add more scalps to his collection in the form of Patton Oswalt and Michael Ian Black?

Right-wing provocateur Cernovich, whose online amplification of offensive tweets published years ago by director James Gunn preceded Gunn’s ouster from the “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie franchise on Friday, turned his attention toward comedians Oswalt and Black later on Friday, highlighting tweets by the comedians that he took issue with.

One tweet shared by Cernovich on Friday night, posted by Black in June 2011, read, “I don’t like watching ‘iCarly’ with my daughter because there is nobody on that show I want to molest...”

Among the Oswalt tweets that Cernovich highlighted on Friday was a 2013 post reading, “Let NAMBLA members f— anyone they want. Am I so crazy for wanting my kid to grow up in a safer world?”

One of the Patton Oswalt tweets be bounced around Twitter. I never really followed his career so I'm surprised by this joke. I thought he was a G-rated comedian.

^being

They really had no other choice than to fire him. Imagine the PR nightmare when promoting #3. It just wouldn't have worked.

Oh my god, r91, Patton has some nerve talking about his daughter's safety considering his house before his wife's untimely death had tons of drugs in it.

I thought Gunn was young when he was making those “edgy” jokes on Twitter. But he was in his 40s! Hard to feel sympathy for someone who leaves that stuff out there and goes accepts mega-$$$ from the Disney machine.

Patton is such a cunt. I loathe him. But even I don’t want him taken down by the miscreant Cernovich.

Now the right-wing Twitter mob is demanding that Patton be removed from appearing at the Special Olympics.

Radio talker Glenn Beck put forth a defense of disgraced Disney movie director James Gunn, who was fired due to years of “jokes” about child rape. Beck took to Twitter to back Gunn despite his many vile posts about pedophilia.

“I will stand for you. We all make mistakes, we must come together as each of us grow and change,” Beck said to Gunn. “Forgive others in hope that they will forgive themselves and others too. Reach beyond your comfort zone and be kind. You don’t need my forgiveness J.G, but I offer friendship.”

Here I was hoping that a ‘broa’ was a joking pseudo anthropological term for a douche of frat men.

Who are these people? I've never heard of ANY of them!

True story behind some of the Patton Oswalt's tweets. It's actually hilarious.