{"id":135909,"date":"2019-03-15T14:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T19:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/james-gunn-returning-to-direct-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-after-firing"},"modified":"2019-03-15T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2019-03-15T19:42:39","slug":"james-gunn-returning-to-direct-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-after-firing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/james-gunn-returning-to-direct-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-after-firing","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Returning to Direct &#039;Guardians of the Galaxy A&#039; After Firing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-76949\">\n<header class=\"entry-header\">    \t\t<!-- .entry-meta --><br \/>\n    \t<\/header>\n<p><!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n\t\t<!-- adman_adcode_beginning --><\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2019_03_15_james-gunn-returning-direct-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3\">\n<h2>\n<\/h2>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf1\">James Gunn<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf2-case\">Bringing Me Back \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>   <span class=\"hf3\">Tapped To Direct \u2018Guardians 3\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"article-posted-date\">\n<\/h5>\n<p>   3\/15\/2019 11:34 AM PDT<\/p>\n<div class=\"all-post-body group article-content\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"chairman\" alt=\"chairman\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/James-Gunn-Returning-to-Direct-039Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-3039-After-Firing.jpg\" \/><strong>James Gunn<\/strong> is back in the good graces of Disney and Marvel, because he\u2019s being reinstated as the writer and director of \u2018Guardians of the Galaxy 3\u2019 \u2026 TMZ has confirmed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s sweet redemption for James, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/07\/20\/james-gunn-fired-guardians-of-the-galaxy-disney\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>fired by Disney<\/strong><\/a> last summer over a bunch of old, terribly offensive tweets \u2014 including musings on AIDS, the Holocaust, rape and 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Our sources say Disney and Marvel honchos decided to rehire James a few months ago, following deliberations and meetings between Gunn and Walt Disney Studios chairman\u00a0<strong>Alan Horn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re told Alan reversed course and brought James back into the fold because of Gunn\u2019s public apology and general handling of the controversy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tmz.vo.llnwd.net\/o28\/newsdesk\/tmz_documents\/christ-pratt-james-gun-insta-letter-01.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"chris pratt\" alt=\"chris pratt\" src=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Sean-Gunn-Won039t-Speculate-on-Disney-Rehiring-James-After-039Guardians039-Open-Letter.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As we reported \u2026 the \u2018GotG\u2019 cast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/07\/30\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-cast-james-gunn-support-open-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>threw their full support<\/strong><\/a> behind James after he was canned, and it had to help his plight to get the backing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/chris-pratt\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Chris Pratt<\/strong><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/vin-diesel\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Vin Diesel<\/strong><\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/person\/zoe-saldana\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> Zoe Saldana<\/strong><\/a>. The stars vouched for James\u2019 character, accepted his apology and hinted Disney only fired him out of fear of public outcry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>James is adding to an already busy schedule \u2026 he\u2019s gotta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2018\/10\/09\/james-gunn-writer-suicide-squad-sequel-fired-guardians-of-the-galaxy-disney\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>finish up<\/strong><\/a> \u201cSuicide Squad 2\u201d before completing the \u2018Guardians\u2019 trilogy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2019\/03\/15\/james-gunn-returning-direct-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- adman_adcode_after --><\/p>\n<p class=\"dpsp-share-text\">Sharing is caring!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gasd_author\"><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/about-me\" rel=\"author\" title=\"Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson\">Profile for Dalelorenzo Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<footer class=\"entry-footer\"><span class=\"cat-links\">Posted in <a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/category\/categorized\/news\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a><\/span>\t<\/footer>\n<p><!-- .entry-footer --><\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/etrafficlane.com\/newline\/james-gunn-returning-to-direct-guardians-of-the-galaxy-3-after-firing\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Gunn Bringing Me Back \u2026 Tapped To Direct \u2018Guardians 3\u2019 3\/15\/2019 11:34 AM PDT James Gunn is back in the good graces of Disney [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.etrafficlane.com\/60dollarmiracle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}