SQUADRO PHENIA
CHANCES ARE YOU ALREADY know the story of how James Gunn landed the gig as director of The Suicide Squad, but for those who missed what was briefly the Twitter “scandal” of 2018, here’s the TL; DR. Gunn’s left-wing politics aggravated a bunch of online trolls who dug up a clutch of offensive tweets with some (admittedly pretty rotten) jokes that he had already apologised for, but had left undeleted.
The resultant storm in a teacup ended with the director fired by Marvel from the in-development . A campaign led by the cast of that film – and a general sense that things had been deliberately blown wildly out of proportion by some of the worst people on Earth – meant that, by March the following year, he had been rehired. In that time, however, the company’s Distinguished Competition had stepped in and made Gunn an offer. Effectively: here’s the DC universe.
