I’m very pleased. Been following this since the original arrest and his defense was engaging in some shockingly vile behavior trying to discredit the victim.
The man is trash and, after what I’m sure will be an entertaining downfall, I’m looking forward to forgetting he existed. I know there is some fear that he will overcome this, but I would be shocked if he ever had a single major role again— he was dropped by multiple parties pre conviction and others he worked with called him cruel and abusive (imagine how awful you’d have to be for a director, who you know professionally, to say that). I’ll try to remember this comment if he ever rebounds and return to admit I was wrong and lament the state of Hollywood, but I would bet against it.
Until then, may he and his team have a miserable time filled with regret.
It will be interesting to see if Disney will stand by him or if they will replace him. They may not be willing to wait for a year to film any scenes they want Kang to be in and they replaced Terrence Howard.
According to news reports, he’s already been fired/released.
Johnny Depp got pulled from the Pirates series didn’t he? That seemed to be murkier but also higher profile. They also fired James Gunn. I think it depends heavily on behind the scenes conversions. Maybe mandated counseling or something. A lot of people have gotten second chances. Gina Carano got canned but they tried pretty hard not to until it became clear she wouldn’t shut up. I think JM has been laying relatively low.
I could see it going either way, but I’ve heard they’ve changed course on some of the plotting to reduce the importance of Kang.
James Gunn and Gina Carano are very interesting opposite scenarios.
James Gunn was basically a hit piece before getting canned by one person superseding everyone else and eventually reinstated when everyone settled down.
Gina just made a target out of herself and got to keep her job because of one person vouching for her and eventually she was fired when she made it clear she wasn’t going to stop.
Truth is each instance is different and the people deciding are different each time.
James Gunn being an edgelord dipshit when he was younger was already known. He owned up to it when he was attacked and he had already previously owned up to it and put the effort in to “do better” as it were for years by that point. This is why the cast and crew as well as people all throughout hollywood came to his defense.
Gunn’s firing is basically the ultimate counter to “Do one bad thing and people will ruin your life for it”. he did a lot of bad shit but he had demonstrated he was not the same person saying that stupid shit and people defended him for it. It is the same reason that Robert Downey Jr has had such a massive career resurgence after his troubled years.
Johnny Depp got pulled from the Pirates series didn’t he
Didn’t they stop making them before everything started coming out about him? And getting rid of people like James Gunn and John Lassiter work more for Disney because they work behind the scenes. They are more replaceable. But like I said, they didn’t seem to mind replacing Terrence Howard. And Don Cheadle is a better actor anyway, so it worked out pretty well.
Terrance Howard also priced himself out. That was as much his decision as Disney’s. I don’t know. I guess we’ll find out soon. I like JM as an actor but these allegations can blow back on companies seen as taking the wrong side, and here he was found guilty. There are some really hard conversations going on behind the scenes, for sure.
Allegedly Disney never made it clear that they reduced his role. So he was negotiating based on old info. No idea how accurate that is though.
Terrence Howard wasn’t the focus of an entire phase the way Majors is/was supposed to be. A sidekick is a lot easier to replace than a big-bad who’s already been in several franchise pieces.
My understanding is their fallback plan is to bring in Dr Doom as the big bad rather than recasting Kang.
Disney has fired him and removed him for all Marvel related projects.
Lets see what Nate has to say. I never trust media sources because there is always some spin on it.
