Suicide Squad movie news.

[CapeCodRPGer]

James Gunn may write and direct new movie.

Rumor is that its not a sequel but a new take on it.

[Captain Deadpool]

Geez, they're getting just as bad as the X-Men. How many time lines do you need.

[DM_aka_Dudemeister]

Marvel fumbled the ball so hard on the James Gunn thing they've made Suicide Squad a viable movie property.

[captain yesterday]

What did Gunn even say exactly, all the newspapers or news say is "he joked about child abuse and pedophilia when he was younger" I mean, how much younger, and how was he "joking" about it.

Honestly, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that's f*@%ed up no matter what era it was.

[Hama]

About 12 years ago on twitter.
He was a provocateur. He apologized profusely over the years for those tweets because he PROGRESSED AS A PERSON.

The notion that someone can't improve and is always the person they were a decade or more ago is abhorrent.

[Irontruth]

Seriously, we're going to describe someone who has a net worth of over $40 million, and who is continuing to get paid work that will net him millions more as some how being oppressed?

He didn't go to prison, he just had to work slightly harder to get his next job. And he has enough money that I'm pretty sure he could live far better than anyone in this thread and never work another day in his life.

I get what you're trying to say, but at the same time... do we really need to cry over James Gunn's very successful career? You could probably pick a better martyr.

James Gunn will likely be paid $7-10 million for NOT directing GotG3.

Wow... he got so screwed. Disney fired him AND is going to pay him several million dollars for a movie he won't be directing. He's also being actively courted to do more movies. Yeah, this whole debacle really ruined his whole career.

I wish I got punished with payouts of millions of dollars.

[Hama]

One's net worth does not determine whether we should feel sorry for him or regret him losing his job.

That is a horrible way to look at things.

[Irontruth]

He's getting paid $7 million to not work (but he's free to find more work... and still gets the $7 million).

And you think we should feel sorry for him.

If you went into work tomorrow, and your boss said "You're fired, here's $7 million."

Would you feel bad?

[Rysky]

Irontruth wrote:

If you went into work tomorrow, and your boss said "You're fired, here's $7 million."

Would you feel bad?

I haven't directed 2 well loved multimillion making blockbusters over the years with a group of people I adore and cherish, so no, I would not.

[Zhangar]

Gunn getting fired over decade year old horrible jokes was simply odd, since Disney had to have known about them when it hired him (Gunn's entire shtick before Disney hired him was being a tasteless provocateur), and Gunn put out a statement apologizing for his garbage back when Disney first hired him.

Disney literally fired him in a knee-jerk reaction to being reminded of information they already knew and had already addressed, making Disney look like idiots. (It also means Disney potentially wrecked GotG 3 based on a report from one of the morons responsible for PizzaGate.)

Though if I understand correctly, the firing came from the corporate leadership - a decision handed out from above the movie division. Perhaps Gunn never would have been hired in the first place if info about his past Twitter stupidity had made it high enough up the Disney corporate ladder?

[thejeff]

Zhangar wrote:

Gunn getting fired over decade year old horrible jokes was simply odd, since Disney had to have known about them when it hired him (Gunn's entire shtick before Disney hired him was being a tasteless provocateur), and Gunn put out a statement apologizing for his garbage back when Disney first hired him.

Disney literally fired him in a knee-jerk reaction to being reminded of information they already knew and had already addressed, making Disney look like idiots. (It also means Disney potentially wrecked GotG 3 based on a report from one of the morons responsible for PizzaGate.)

Though if I understand correctly, the firing came from the corporate leadership - a decision handed out from above the movie division. Perhaps Gunn never would have been hired in the first place if info about his past Twitter stupidity had made it high enough up the Disney corporate ladder?

Not so much because of the comments directly, but in fear of possible controversy. Not that the higher ups didn't know about the comments, or even that they'd bothered to read them now, but that they didn't want to deal with them now that there was a campaign about them, so they cut him loose.

(Also, decade old is a bit misleading. They were apparently from what he was doing from 2008-2012, so pretty recent when he started working on GotG. The earliest would be 10 years ago now.)

I dunno. It sucks for him, though I can't really feel much pity for someone getting canned with such a nice severance package and apparently little effect on his long term career. His life is hardly ruined.
OTOH, I hate to give the Gater morons the satisfaction.

Anyway, I hear there's something about a new Suicide Squad movie? Could be cool.

[Lord Snow]

To me this is less about Gunn himself and more about how the whole thing reflects back on the current political climate as a whole.

[Irontruth]

I'd agree that there's an element of moral panic to this story... AND that nothing bad actually happened to him.

If you want to find a poster child for negative consequences though... you're going to have to find a better one. Also notice, that no one brought it up until a defender tried to convince us we should feel sorry for him... in a thread about how he has a new job in the same career.