James Gunn on Getting Fired and Rehired by Disney

James Gunn has opened up about Disney firing and then rehiring him to live Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

Disney fired Gunn in July 2018 after old tweets of his prompted outrage in some circles online. In an interview with Deadline, Gunn took full responsibility for this issue and said he would not go to Disney or Marvel, and said he had accepted that his time with the Guardians franchise was over when Disney co-chairman and CCO Alan Horn broached rehiring him. Gunn was officially rehired this March

In the time between getting fired and rehired for Guardians Vol. 3, Gunn had also been hired to write and direct The Suicide Squad for Marvel's rival DC and Warner Bros.

"I was about to sit down and talk about The Suicide Squad with DC and I was excited about that. I really think he's a good man and I think he's going back to me because he thought that was the right thing to do, "Gunn said. "I'm always attracted to finding goodness in my face, I've gotten a little bit of teary-eyed in his office." And then I had to go tell [Marvel Studios president] Kevin Feige I have just decided to do the Suicide Squad, so that made me very nervous. "

In the end, Gunn is doing both movies, with The Suicide Squad going ahead first and then Gunn will segue to Guardians Vol. 3. For his part, Gunn has accepted that he was responsible for the initial firing:

"I do not blame anyone. I do not know what I'm saying here, I'm just doing it. , and that's still my responsibility, that I should not be in the mood for something else. I would like to say that they did not have anything to do with me. "

Gunn said he had a lot of anger at himself and did a lot of soul-searching the wake of his firing, but that he did not let go of that rage in order to heal and move on. 19659002]

Gunn is excited to be able to finish the Guardians' – and especially Rocket Raccoon's, a character he says he is especially attached to – story arc that he started with the first movie, Marvel had said they would still use his script for Vol.3. (Marvel and Disney, for their part, had not met with any other directors for the film.)

"Groot is like my dog.I love Groot in a completely different way.I Relate to Rocket and I feel compbadion for Rocket , but I like it, "Gunn said. "He has an arc that started in the first movie, and is still going through the world." finish that story-though I was comforted by the fact that they were still planning to use my script. "

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Will be filmed in 2020. For more on the film, check out what Kevin Feige, the stars of the MCU, and fans all had to say about Gunn's rehiring.