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Dirk Libbey

Chris Pratt Calls Out The Studio For Firing James Gunn, Then Attempting To Still Use His Guardians Script

Chris Pratt as Star-Lord in Guardians 3

The saga of Marvel Studios and James Gunn is about to come to a resounding conclusion with the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Before being able to make the movie Gunn had actually been fired from the job, leading to significant questions regarding whether we’d ever see the movie at all. As it turns out, even if Gunn had not returned as director he would have been involved as the movie was still going to use his script, something that Chris Pratt couldn’t believe.

It’s been almost five years since a series of offensive James Gunn tweets, that the director had already apologized for, were brought back into the spotlight by people angry with Gnn’s criticism of then President Trump. At the time, a script for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 had already been completed, and a new in-depth story in THR confirms that even after Gunn was fired plans were in place to still use the script, something that Chris Pratt found to be more than a little hypocritical. He explained…

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