Lost male feminist Joss Whedon is finally replaced as King of Nerds
Chris Snellgrove | publishing
Lately, I’ve been watching everything James Gunn creates Slider To a newer episode Peaceful. When I re-watch Supermanthis is a great premiere film from DCU, and what I think of is that I watched better than Iron Man beat Lex Luthor. I also watched Gunn casually right former Marvel and DC director Joss Whedon as the beloved king of nerds.
Back in 2012, directed by Joss Whedon the Avengersa key business fan, bringing the MCU a complete ensemble storytelling. Really feel that Wheaton’s life has been achieving this goal because he became his reputation Buffy Vampire Slayer A new career as a high-power superhero director. He continues to coach Avengers: Age of Ultron and Justice Leaguebut the controversy over that DC movie and Wheaton’s personal life effectively ended a career that seemed to be nowhere to go.
Accusations against Jos Wheaton
As for the Avengers Director’s personal life, his ex-wife Kai Cole wrote a blog post in 2017, saying Wheaton and from Buffy and other works he works; she doesn’t have a name, but her post (and Whedon’s crazy misogynistic posts Wonder Woman TV pilot scripts) hurt Whedon’s reputation, a loud, proud, male feminist. back Justice League Stars Ray Fisher and Gal Gadot claim Whedon abused them on the scene Buffy and Angel Star Charisma Carpenter claimed Whedon was cruel to her, called her fat, and questioned whether she would keep the baby after she became pregnant.
Carpenter has been supported by former Costa Rica such as Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz and the late Michelle Trachtenberg, who went on to claim there was a live rule that Whedon would not allow her to be with her (she was only 14 years old when she was only 14 years old). Buffy). Overall, all of these sunken Wheaton’s careers doomed his reputation, making the proclaimed feminist look like misogynists. At the same time, however, Wheaton was slowly replaced by James Gunn.
The Rise of James Gunn
when Buffy At the time, Gunn was a rising star in Hollywood, for these two dawn Remake and live-action song “Scooby Movie”. In 2006, he and Slidera hit horror movie starring Whedon’s Golden Boy, Nathan Fillion. Gunn did some other work, including directing the funny dark superhero satire Extremely goodbut it can be said that he was the creator of mainstream superstars until his MCU premiere was successful Guardians of the Galaxy.
back Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 It turns out Gunn was firmly established as one of the coolest characters in geek history. He has become like Joss Whedon, because his name is now synonymous with stylish and cool works while still undoubtedly nerdy.
But then he faced the same challenge that Wheaton faced: about a year later Buffy The creator’s wife wrote her devastating blog post, Gunn was fired by Disney and some of his very self-paid old tweets resurfaced.
How James Gunn recovers from cancellation
Today, even Gunn is the first to admit that he believes the controversy will completely destroy his Hollywood career. But then something happened guardian The master of Wheaton never really happened: his former actor, along with a bunch of celebrities, fans and media, began to support him publicly and criticized Disney for his decision to let the director go.
Gunn Back to Direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3but not before the instructions Warner Bros. Suicide Squad. This sets the stage for Gunn to eventually become co-chair of DC Studios and his DCU premiere film Superman, It turned out to be a huge blow. This success means his former Marvel boss now has to worry about the popular rival Cinema Universe, even if the MCU is getting high profile from such Thunder and lightning and Fantastic Four: Step One.
James Gunn never claims to be the champion of anything except good storytelling
When comparing their careers, I can’t help but notice that there seems to be one thing James Gunn doesn’t: Joss Whedon doesn’t seem to: collective support from almost everyone who worked with him before. Gunn repeatedly acknowledged the immaturity of his provocative old social media posts and apologized for them, but everyone usually knows that these are just words (although childish and offensive words).
Wheaton wrote his own narrative to make himself look like a champion for women. Meanwhile, his allegedly openly acceptable role (according to his ex-wife and multiple former actors) hides a dark history, disgust, cruelty and on-site abuse.
This brings us to today: Gunn’s career survived, trying to cancel, and Wheaton’s entire career quietly disappeared. And now, as a DCU architect, Gunn is shooting for the superhero movie (Superhero), and even Whedon can’t do it at the height of his power and influence. Joss moves over: You are regarded as the king of nerds.
One thing is still clear from how interesting Gunn seems. It’s great to be a king!
