Peminat Buat Petisyen Bantah Pemecatan James Gunn Dari Disney

Sebuah petisyen online menggesa Disney untuk menarik balik tindakan memecat pengarah Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3, James Gunn. Petisyen itu kini sudah mendapat lebih 65 ribu tandatangan dan dicipta oleh seorang personaliti sosial media, Mike Cernovich.

Rentetan daripada pemecatan itu, ramai rakan-rakan pengarah tampil untuk membela James Gunn. Antara yang terawal ialah pelakon Dave Bautista yang memberikan pandangan bahwa tindakan Disney ialah tidak wajar. Selain itu, Sean Gunn, adik kepada James Gunn juga tidak bersetuju dengan tindakan itu

Dan di pihak peminat pula, ramai yang tidak bergembira dengan tindakan itu. Maka, disebabkan itu, petisyen ini dibuat di Change.org pada Ahad lepas dan cuba untuk mencapai target tandatangan sebanyak 75 ribu keseluruhannya. Di petisyen itu, terdapat kenyataan berikut:

I agree on the point that if people say a bunch of stupid s--t while working for a studio, the studio has full right to fire him over the possible controversy. This situation is very different though as he made these jokes years before he was working for Disney and also the fact that they were jokes. I agree with most, including Gunn himself that the jokes were s---ty and un-funny but they were still jokes, it wasn't an opinion or a statement, it was just a bad attempt at being funny. The other thing is if you do this to Gunn you have to do it for all the other directors who have said some crappy joke sometime in their life, which is all of them, cause I doubt there's one human on this planet who hasn't made a s---ty joke once or twice in there [sic] life.

Namun begitu, pencipta petisyen ini sebenarnya tahu bahawa pihak Disney mungkin tidak akan menurut permintaan mereka. Namun, mereka berharap bahawa ianya menunjukkan satu tanda tentang ketidakpuasan peminat tentang tindakan Disney. Melalui filem Guardians of the Galaxy, Disney mengaut keuntungan sebanyak USD1.6 billion seluruh dunia.