Mafro wrote:Nah, don't really have any sympathy for him since he should have known fine well what the reaction to those tweets would have been and Disney were well within their rights to get rid of him if he in any way damaged their image of being a family company. Of course, you could bring in to question their due diligence when hiring a known edge lord like him.
Not to defend him particularly but they did, as he discussed and apologised for his tweeting history in 2012 when he was hired, and then again during the press tour for GotG2 last year.
Weirdly he seems to see Rocket Raccoon as the closest analogy to him in terms of being a semi-rehabilitated misanthrope.
It’s also worth mentioning that he’s not the only director in the Marvel/Disney stable with a potentially wonky history on the platform - Rian Johnson did a mass dump of old posts when this came to light again.