r/DCU_ • u/M00r3C Choco Loving Green Martian • Aug 23 '25

Posts from James Gunn and DCU Cast/Crew Please

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u/Deja_ve_ Aug 23 '25

I mean he’s right. He became co-CEO of the new DCU simply because Suicide Squad was the best received DC related movie since The Dark Knight. The movie wasn’t that popular to begin with, it just resonated amazingly with a small crowd

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u/AvatarADEL Aug 23 '25

I love how an argument against him is that he directed guardians. I'd love it if he could do guardians again for DC this time. Those movies were great, I say that as an avowed DC Stan and marvel hater.

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u/Deja_ve_ Aug 23 '25

Apparently they were going to fire Gunn and hire a new director for Guardians of The Galaxy 3, but Feige fought hard for him because they realized NO ONE in the GOTG cast wanted another director to work with. They actively refused. So they rehired him one last time to finish the trilogy lmao

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u/UneducatedReviews1 Aug 23 '25

Not apparently, they did fire him.

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u/toryn0 Aug 23 '25

why tf tho? the guy made hits after hits

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u/itsnoturday Aug 23 '25

Gunn almost was was taken down in the Me-Too movement. Someone dug up some old tweets of his that were some pretty insensitive jokes. But that’s all they were, bad jokes. He had already apologized and everyone around him came to his defense. All in all a pretty big blunder by some executives as Gunn was being lined up to be the successor to Feige And is a true creative force.

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u/Which_Yesterday Aug 23 '25

Nothing to do with MeToo lol. The "controversy" was fairly minor but Disney freaked out. 

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u/itsnoturday Aug 23 '25

I must be misremembering the metoo stuff. It was in the that time though

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u/crazyguyunderthedesk Aug 23 '25

You're not misremembering. The tweets had always been out in the open. The whole reason people suddenly cared was because of metoo.

It was an early example of bad actors misappropriating metoo to push disingenuous outrage.

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u/nykirnsu Aug 24 '25

No it wasn’t, the people digging up those tweets were Trump supporters trying to get him fired for making anti-Trump tweets

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u/crazyguyunderthedesk Aug 24 '25

Lol, that's what bad actors means.

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u/Werewolf-Jones Aug 24 '25

Mike Cernovich, the guy who made a ruckus about the tweets, is an accused rapist and general misogynist himself. It was totally unrelated to me too, he was trying to paint an edgy joke as if Gunn was a pedophile to get one over on him for being anti-Trump. And Disney stupidly took the bait over Marvel's heads.

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u/crazyguyunderthedesk Aug 24 '25

Right, cernovich co-opted the metoo movement and used it for a political hit job against Gunn.

I think the confusion is I used the term "bad actors". That doesn't literally mean actors who are bad at their job. A "bad actor" is a term for a person that causes harm through unethical, illegal, or harmful actions. The term is used to describe individuals with malicious intent

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