“My words of nearly a decade ago were, at the time, totally failed and unfortunate efforts to be provocative,” his statement read. “I have regretted them for many years since – not just because they were stupid, not at all funny, wildly insensitive, and certainly not provocative like I had hoped, but also because they don’t reflect the person I am today or have been for some time.”

cool beans. he says why he did it and y'all just don't believe him and burn him at the witch fire. for a few made up satirical fucking 140 chars or something riddles ten fucking years ago i - again - don't even need to read because that's not the point. this is why society is shit. he never harmed any soul.
plus, he's right, they are obviously provocative :D

i learned something here. if you want to write a piece, DON'T use twitter. in fact, just don't use twitter period.

Whatever, turn a blind eye to pedophilia. You do know that one of those "jokes" was shared by a friend of his who was conviction of child porn, right? Pretty eerie seeing Gunn, make a pedo "joke" back to a friend who is a convicted sex offender.

I'm sure you still haven't read his Tweets either. You skim one article and then start posting shit to anyone who disagrees with the one article you read. You didn't investigate yourself. You just showed yourself to be an ignorant tool.

Yeah, like he condones everything his friend does. I better go to jail right now because some friend parked somewhere forbidden. Pillory by proxy lol. I'm glad I'm not there in the middle ages with you.
And about the shit posting - mr. cool man - your rep clearly indicates you post more shit than me.

Use that rep thing jerk...everyone knows some scammer has downrepped the shit out of me. But that somehow gives some ignorant jerk like you the right to attack me about a post concerning something you didn't even read.

I read his Tweets. They are disgusting. And there is no possibly way a family friendly film studio like Disney can stand by him after that. Tweets about raping children are not jokes. Tweets about using a 3-year old for a golden shower isn't a joke. Tweets about kid's movies having trees ejaculate on the children are not jokes. Multiple other tweets about sex with or raping young children. Not one Tweet, many on the same topic of sex with children. But write it all off as "jokes", just like all those "jokes" about Hollywood producers and how actresses can give sexual favors for jobs. You are right, it's all just jokes...never happens in real life...Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey were probably framed too...

There is no way a family oriented movie studio like Disney can do anything but fire him. Those Tweets are just that bad even if they were just 6 years ago (not 10 years as some people seem to be misreporting). At least one of those Tweets was 2012 while he was probably in the middle of filming the first movie for Disney...

Maybe you should get your facts straight before making a jerk of yourself...

Look, I did not even read what you just wrote, I'm sure it's some kind of insult.

On topic: Since the beginning, I said let the guy in peace and disney is on drugs. I don't even need to explain myself for this opinion. But if somebody cares: I myself was in this situation. I was young and dumb and wanted to prove the point that you can say anything on social media (BBS in university back then) because of free speech. I even marked it with a prefix (like in Böhmermanns Schmähgedicht he says "in media, you can't say this..."). Then people like YOU came out of the woodwork and implied I meant everything I said and I am the devil or something and the officials had to punish me. I learnt my lesson and don't engage in the more public places of social media often because.. well, just look at this thread how literally everybody takes the written word nowadays and how angry they get. And are those places less colorful and interesting because of people like my shying away from it? You betcha.
Also, insider tweets are (were I should say) not uncommon - I saw multiple tweets by Killmonday Games and such, sweetest people in the world, couldn't hurt a fly, but made cool dark oneliners - they put their profile to private later - I wonder why lol.
It would be REAL NICE if the people were hunting the real witches. It begins by discerning reality from FICTION. Kthxbye.
Until then, have fun with your nice weather talk, because that's all you hear anymore.

Right...you didn't even read it and complain about it being insulting...you don't seem to read ANYTHING!!!! You admitted coming to the thread to complain about my post without even reading the story in the first place.

While he was working on Guardians, as an employee of Disney, he wrote this one...

"Eagle Snatches Kid" is what I call it when I get lucky.

That's December of 2012, he was "so young" then. But leave it to journalists to mis-report that all these Tweets are coming from over 10 years ago...in fact, none of the ones I saw were even 10 years old, but that is the state of journalism these days. They don't even try to get their facts straight.

But Disney is somehow wrong for firing him right? This isn't all from his youth...including some while he was employed by them.

Dont' need to. Sue me :D

Priceless. LMFAO!!!

You just proved that all you are is a troll. You attacked me without even reading what James Gunn's Tweets were even about. I don't need to put up with all your uninformed insults. You proved your true nature.
Serious jerk...do you do anything but try to follow me around to insult me. Go screw yourself Richlind. I don't need to put up with your effing insults!

You are that dracula from dead and loving it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m34GUn0QqA

I love you too, bro. LOL

Neither one of you came here to contribute anything to the thread. Alienmind jumps in without even knowing what any of the Tweets were about defending James Gunn and Richland, you jump up just to attack me as usual.

What kind of person defends someone without knowing a damn thing thing about what was Tweeted? You heard it on the news, so it "must be true" they were jokes? You just assumed these were from his distant youth...

That last Tweet I mentioned, James Gunn was 46, he's 51 right now, he sure learned a lot since his "youth"....{sarcasm}

But it doesn't stop Hollywood from circling the wagons and making it seem all these Tweets were from ages ago...
I think it's pretty sick for some guy in his 40's to be making all these jokes about ejaculation, sex and rape with regards to children.

Free speech is a tricky matter where public forums are concerned. I respect Disney for canning him if it was soley for his tweets. Standing up for your values, whatever they are, even when it hurts you is good to see.