
Director James Gunn has been reinstated as the director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
On Friday, Deadline confirmed that Gunn — who was fired from the film in July 2018 after right-wing news personalities surfaced old tweets of his that joked, in poor taste, about rape and pedophilia — has been rehired by Disney to write and direct the franchise’s third installment. Gunn previously directed the first two Guardians of the Galaxy films.
The move comes several months after the initial controversy over his firing, which came in response to an engineered, Gamergate-like campaign to have him …