James Gunn, the writer-director of Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise, apologized late Thursday after a series of old (now deleted) tweets resurfaced in which the filmmaker made what he admitted were “offensive” jokes about taboo topics like rape and pedophilia.
“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,” Gunn wrote in a series of tweets. “As I have discussed publicly many times, as I’ve developed as a person, so has my work and my humor.”
James Gunn apologizes for “offensive” old tweets joking about rape, pedophilia
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So we should all take this as a “no comment” from Sean Gerber, who is clearly too busy to either condemn or make excuses for this.
However, he is not too busy to shill merchandise and show us how cool SDCC is either here or on other social media outlets.
Rhetorical question: Why is it every time there is negative MCU news it is either ignored or “covered” by an outside source?
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I’m guessing James Gunn is a liberal. The media’s double standard. Whenever they make horrible jokes, no one cares or makes a fuss. Only Roseanne’s racist joke makes people lose jobs.
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RUMOR IS HES FIRED.
You simply can not tell hundreds of jokes like this in your 40s and then say sorry.
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Confirmed: https://superheronews.com/j…
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Ya, i mean, watching someone lose their job wow. But honestly both sides playing the political angles is so wrong. End of the day we are talking about some fucked up shit from a professional educated adult.
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