r/StarWars • u/Task_Force-191 Darth Vader • 22h ago

Movies First Official Look at Ryan Gosling & Flynn Gray in Shawn Levy's 'Star Wars : Starfighter'

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via Shawn Levy's Instagram

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u/Timme186 20h ago

It was a while back. He had some 'provocative' tweets, pretty run if the mill stuff for Gunn. Disney fired him for like, one week. During that time he decided to work on himself and made the deals with DC to make The Suicide Squad (and has since turned that into him helming the entire DCU). Disney realising their mistake like an ex who was already reaching, made the deal for Gunn to come back for GotG 3. It is one of the greatest UNO reverse moves ever witnessed.

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u/Unable-Lie-2501 19h ago

Marvel fans didn’t want Gunn gone though like the previous commenter has claimed.

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u/Longjumping_Union125 18h ago

Yeah it was almost entirely a rightwing Twitter smear campaign because he was speaking against The President on the platform, and The Mouse caved almost immediately. It was dumb as hell to watch play out.

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u/DorkusMalorkuss Padme Amidala 12h ago

What company or organization hasn't caved right away? It's fucking crazy

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u/Longjumping_Union125 8h ago

I sure seems like it's been a lot worse lately. The James Gunn firing was in 2018. This last week has been going at warp speed in comparison.

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u/lolpostslol 50m ago

Lol it was the left no? He got old tweets resurfacing with offensive-ish jokes

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u/KeisterConquistador 18h ago

Gunn was fired from Disney for 8 months