Zoe Saldana and Selma Blair Support GOTG Director James Gunn | English movie news

The star of & # 39; Guardians of the Galaxy & # 39; Zoe Saldana and actor Selma Blair volunteered to support James Gunn, who was fired from the movie Marvel following a series of offensive tweets from the director on social networks.

Saldana, who plays Gamora in the MCU, took to Twitter and without mentioning Gunn simply stated that he loves "ALL members of the GOTG family".

"It's been a tough weekend, I'm not going to lie, I'm stopping to take everything before I speak, I just want everyone to know that I like all the my family GOTG. "she wrote.

Blair, who is the friend the filmmaker's fox, shared the link to the online petition asking Walt Disney Co to rehire him.

"Because if people are punished despite the changes, then that is not the case. does this teach people to have mistakes and evolve? This man is one of the good ones, "she wrote.

Chris Pratt, star actor Lord / Peter Quill, who avoided questions related to Gunn during a Q & A session for "Lego Movie 2: The Second Part" in San Diego Comic-Con initially , shared an encrypted message on Twitter with a Bible verse, prayer hands and heart emojis.

"Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters, let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger." JAMES 1:19, "Pratt tweeted.

Gunn's brother, Sean, who plays Kraglin in the Guardians franchise, came to his defense, urging fans to still "enjoy" the movies despite the fact that his brother director was once "a kind of jacka **".

"So I think my hope is that fans will continue to watch and enjoy Guardian films, not in spite of the fact that the filmmaker was a kind of jacka **, but because of that." on these movies made my brother a better person, and they made me one too, I'm proud of it … Peace, "Gunn writes in a long article on social media.

Dave Bautista, who was the first member of the Guardian team to stand up for the director's defense, said the discovery of Gunn's old tweets was a "cyberattack".

"What happened here is so much bigger than G3, @JamesGunn, myself, @Disney etc … It was a #cybernazi attack that succeeded.If we start to we unite against this shit, that people are offended do not be! .. It will be much worse and it can happen to anybody, "wrote Bautista.

In the old tweets, whose screenshots are available online, the 51-year-old director has made crude jokes about pedophilia and rape. Screenshots of Gunn's tweets, which run from 2009 to 2012, were shared by a conservative website.

After being fired, the filmmaker also released a statement in which he "regretted" the tweets and stressed that "they do not reflect the person I am today". Gunn was writing the script for the third movie, which was to start shooting in Atlanta in the fall for a release date in 2020.

The petition, titled "RE-HIRE JAMES GUNN" was initiated by a Chandler Edwards, collected more than 140,000 signatures in support of Gunn.