James Gunn back as director of "Guardians of the Galaxy 3"

The filmmaker was fired in July 2018.

In a remarkable turn of events, Disney reinstated James Gunn as director of The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

Disney fired Gunn in July 2018, after the filmmaker's old offensive tweets were redone online by conservative online personalities. The shooting was controversial, with Guardians of the Galaxy stars, including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper and Dave Bautista, have signed an open letter asking the filmmaker to be rehired. Bautista, in particular, had clearly expressed his support for Gunn.

Marvel Studios put Guardians 3 On hold, Kevin Feige, director of Marvel, and others involved have said they want to make this film a reality. Guardians 3 never had a release date, but Gunn had previously announced its opening in 2020.

In the weeks following Gunn's dismissal, rumors ran around the city over the choice of the filmmaker's replacement, with agents lining up clients, but by mid-fall, any alleged search seemed to be going on. fainted, many thinking that the project was behind. What almost no one knew was that Marvel and Disney had never done any research, had gone back to Gunn and had walked into a market … in secret, according to insiders.

After the shot, Gunn went to Warner Bros. and DC to write and direct The suicide brigade, which has Idris Elba featured and a release date on August 6, 2021. Gunn plans to do both movies, with The suicide brigade come first, according to sources.

When Gunn was fired, he issued a statement in which he apologized for his previous tweets.

"My words from nearly ten years ago were, at the time, totally doomed to failure and unfortunate efforts to provoke," reads in his statement of July 2018. " I regret them for many years – not only because they were stupid, not at all funny, wildly insensitive, and certainly not provocative as I had hoped, but also because they do not reflect not the person that I am or has been for a while. "

Guardian films are a big success for Marvel, pushing his cinematic world into the cosmic sphere. The 2014 film has won more than $ 773 million worldwide while the 2017 film The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 earned $ 863 million. the guardians were a big part of last year Avengers: war in the infinite, on which Gunn was executive producer.