Disney Struggles To Find New Director for "Guardians of the Galaxy 3" - Pushes out release date to 2021 / #metoo fallout

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It looks like Disney/Marvel Studios is in no hurry to replace James Gunn and get Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 project in production. The studio seems to have decided to put the threequel project on the backburner and concentrate on other MCU films.


A new listings report coming off from Production Weekly reveals that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 production status is set for February 2021. As expected, the director role remains unfilled but James Gunn’s name is listed under the writer credit. Though delayed the project already has a working title and it is “Hot Christmas”.


Earlier in September, Sean Gunn who plays as the on-set stand-in for Rocket assured that Disney still intends to make the movie and that James Gunn’s script will be used.


It is most likely that the studio found it hard to find a quick replacement and get the cameras rolling with a slight delay from their last set filming start date. That may be why the project has been pushed back further, to assure that the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise gets the good ending it deserves.


Actor Bradley Cooper who does the voice over for Rocket was also approached with the idea of replacing Gunn. But he was quick to shoot it down pointing to a valid reason.


“I could never direct anything that I didn’t write,” Cooper said. “No, I could never direct anything that I didn’t write.”


Even the Ghostbuster director had a similar opinion and said that he would never “take anything away from another filmmaker.”


Many directors would feel the same. So it seems to be the right strategy to push the project back and put it on hold indefinitely till they find a suitable candidate to helm Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.


Dave Bautista is still listed in the cast thought he has hinted on several occasion that he might not return to play the role of Drax. The actor has made his intention clear that he isn’t happy about being part of the film without Gunn.


Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 does not have a release date assigned yet.

I may be reading a bit between the lines here, but it seems like Hollywood is low-key telling Disney to go fuck itself for what the mega-conglomerate did to GotG #1 & 2 Director James Gunn over some edgy pedo humor tweets from the late 2000's when the Twitterverse got offended over them.

Disney seems desperate enough to have approached Bradley Cooper, the voice of Rocket Raccoon in the movies, to direct the continuation of the 300 million dollar franchise. Cooper told them politely to go pound sand.

Not surprising, seeing as how Disney has invested millions in creating GotG themed rides for both Disney land and Disney world, that are still in the process of being built.

They stepped over a Dollar of a franchise to pick up a Dime of making the perpetually offended twitter-verse happy.

 

[Jewelsmakerguy]

Well maybe if Disney didn't bend down to suck SJW dick, they'd still have a director.

Everyone in Hollywood is a massive asshole, so why single Gunn out for making some edgy tweets that are over a decade old?

 

[Chaos Theorist]

>being this much of a apologist for a pedo in 2018

Disney should of never fired Roseanne and James Gunn and should of just made them apologise for being edgelords

 

[Done]

Well maybe if Disney didn't bend down to suck SJW dick, they'd still have a director.

Everyone in Hollywood is a massive asshole, so why single Gunn out for making some edgy tweets that are over a decade old?

They bent over for Thernovich and co, who aren't lefties at all.

 

[XYZpdq]

Sounds like they're just trying to not shit it up like Star Wars has. Didn't Ant Man have similar delays after they shitcanned the director?

 

[SiccDicc]

I don't think Clint Eastwood has ever been #MeToo'd, but I'm afraid he'll turn Guardians of the Galaxy into a Western.
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Which might be a fun direction to take it in. They're already pretty much a ragtag group of vigilantes.

 

[whatever I feel like]

Sounds like they're just trying to not shit it up like Star Wars has. Didn't Ant Man have similar delays after they shitcanned the director?

Yes, but that was because he was going off the rails with it. So then it needed to be re-written, etc.

 

[The Shadow]

I'll take the job. I've always wanted to make bank taking directives from higher ups and putting in a bitchin' classic rock score. It would definitely be the first Disney's Marvel's Lucasfilm's Marvel Cinematic Universe movie to have Hawkwind in it.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

I don't think Clint Eastwood has ever been #MeToo'd, but I'm afraid he'll turn Guardians of the Galaxy into a Western.
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Which might be a fun direction to take it in. They're already pretty much a ragtag group of vigilantes.

#BringBackTheSpaceWestern

 

[Zaragoza]

Just rehire the guy, is it that hard?

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Just rehire the guy, is it that hard?

We can't let Moviebob win.

 

[Zaragoza]

We can't let Moviebob win.

*Movieblob

 

[sasazuka]

I don't think Clint Eastwood has ever been #MeToo'd, but I'm afraid he'll turn Guardians of the Galaxy into a Western.

Has Clint Eastwood been mentioned by anyone in the industry as a possibility? I suppose I'd be okay with it, but, on the other hand, he's 88 now and he'll likely be in his nineties by the time the film's in production so I'd be a little skeptical that he'd still be capable of helming a production of that scale.

 

[SiccDicc]

Has Clint Eastwood been mentioned by anyone in the industry as a possibility? I suppose I'd be okay with it, but, on the other hand, he's 88 now and he'll likely be in his nineties by the time the film's in production so I'd be a little skeptical that he'd still be capable of helming a production of that scale.

Nah, no one's mentioned him. I just can't think of many directors who probably didn't diddle someone against their will or make dumb jokes.

The worst I can think of that Clint did was talk to an empty chair and call this generation a bunch of pussies.

 

[Trilby]

#BringBackTheSpaceWestern

I'd be all for it! That's what space always felt like to me if you know how to write it effectively.

 

[Someone in a Tree]

Has Clint Eastwood been mentioned by anyone in the industry as a possibility? I suppose I'd be okay with it, but, on the other hand, he's 88 now and he'll likely be in his nineties by the time the film's in production so I'd be a little skeptical that he'd still be capable of helming a production of that scale.

He's never been known for having much of a visual flair. He just does a couple takes and moves on. I can't imagine he'd have much patience with all the post production. "What do you mean the raccoon and tree won't be on the set?"

 

[the autist of dojima]

Has Clint Eastwood been mentioned by anyone in the industry as a possibility? I suppose I'd be okay with it, but, on the other hand, he's 88 now and he'll likely be in his nineties by the time the film's in production so I'd be a little skeptical that he'd still be capable of helming a production of that scale.

Theres still mel gibson, but that would require kikewood to swallow their pride

 

[Lensherr]

Whatever, these movies are massively overrated anyway.

 

[RG 448]

The whole situation is stupid. I hope Gunn doesn’t return even if Disney begs him. He’s already got other work so he’ll keep creating. Disney made their dumbass pandering bed, they deserve to lie in it. I hope the leads all walk too. They can afford to be picky about who they work for. If the suits don’t suffer financially for doing stupid shit they’ll keep doing stupid shit.

 

[Truthboi]

Honestly the most likely outcome is hiring some random indie director, give him Gunn's script, and it will just be a safe guaranteed success even if it's a bad movie.