AND HE'S BACK
Posted: 040119

So last year James Gunn was fired off of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 because of some jokes he made on social media years ago that he said he was sorry for before production on Guardians of the Galaxy even started shooting. It ticked off fans. Really ticked off Dave Bautista and left Marvel with this big hole on its schedule. So the search for a new director began and the most obvious choice was Thor: Ragnarok’s Taika Waititi but he said he said he wasn’t interested because to him those were Gunn’s films. He and Marvel are talking about another movie but Guardians wasn’t going to be it. Then there were rumors that Kubo and the Two Strings and Bumblebee’s Travis Knight was Marvel top choice to step in but he said he’s going back to animation. And then Gunn was hired to write The Suicide Squad for Warner's. And then they announced he was going to direct it as well. Gunn was offered a number of DC properties including Superman, which he wasn’t interested in and he picked Squad. The new film will ignore the first one and have Idris Elba replace Will Smith as Deadshot. But we kept hearing that Guardians 3 was going to use Gunn’s script. And out of the blue Marvel announced that Gunn would return to direct the third film. Deadline reported that the deal was actually made in January or earlier but Disney wasn’t ready to announce it. So Gunn will do Suicide Squad and then do Guardians. And I called him coming back the day he was fired, so there.