The dishonored male feminist Joss Whedon has finally been replaced, as king of the nerds

By Chris Snellgrove | Published 11 seconds ago

Lately, I have been seeing all the things created by James Gunn, from older things like Sliver to the newest episodes of Pacifier. While I saw again SupermanThe excellent debut film for the DCU, it occurred to me that I was watching more than the steel man defeated Lex Luthor. He was also seeing Gunn casually destroying the former director of Marvel and DC, Joss Whedon, as the beloved king of the Nerds.

In 2012, Joss Whedon directed the AvengersA critical and commercial success that brought narration of full tales to the MCU. It really felt that Whedon’s life had been leading to this, since he turned his fame as creator of Buffy The Vampire Slayer in a new career as director of High Power Superheroes. He went to direct The Avengers: Age of Ultron and Justice LeagueBut controversies with that DC movie and Whedon’s personal life ended up effectively in a race that seemed to have nowhere to go.

The accusations against Joss Whedon

As for the Avengers The director’s personal life, his ex -wife Kai Cole wrote a blog post in 2017 claiming that Whedon had bedded with actresses from Buffy and other productions in which he worked; She did not appoint names, but her publication (along with things like the incredibly Misogina de Whedon Wonderful woman Television pilot script) Werew Whedon’s reputation as a strong, proud and male male feminist. After Justice League The stars Ray Fisher and Gal Gadot alleged that Whedon mistreated them in the set, their old Buffy and Angel The Carisma Carpenter star claimed that Whedon was cruel to her on the set, calling her fat and asking if she would keep the baby after she became pregnant.

Carpenter was supported by former co -star such as Sarah Michelle Gellar, David Boreanaz, and the deceased Michelle Trachtenberg, who said there was a rule on the set that Whedon was not allowed to be alone with her (he was only 14 years old when he joined when he joined Buffy). Collectively, the entire career of this Whedon sank even when he condemned his reputation, causing the declared feminist to seem a misogynist. At the same time, this was happening, however, Whedon was slowly replaced by James Gunn.

James Gunn’s emergence

When Buffy I was finishing, Gunn was a rising star in Hollywood, writing the scripts for both Dawn of the dead Remake and Scooby-Doo’s films of live action. He made his debut as director in 2006 with SliverA successful horror film starring Whedon’s golden child, Nathan Fillion. Gunn did some other work, including the direction of the satire of hilarious superheroes SuperBut it is fair to say that it did not become a creator of conventional superstar until the success of his MCU debut film Galaxy Guardians.

After Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 It turned out to be another important success, Gunn was firmly established as one of the best figures in Geek’s history. He had become quite a lot like Joss Whedon, since his name was now synonymous with work that was elegant and great, while still not apologies.

But then he faced the same challenge that Whedon had faced: approximately one year after Buffy The creator’s wife wrote her devastating blog post, Disney shot Gunn after some of her old tweets from her pocket resurfaced.

How James Gunn recovered from cancellation

These days, even Gunn is the first to admit that he thought that this controversy was going to completely destroy his career in Hollywood. But then something went through him Guardians Guru that never happened to Whedon: his former actors, along with a legion of celebrities, fans and media, began to support him publicly and criticize Disney for his decision to let go to the director.

Gunn renamed Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3But not before directing The suicide squad for Warner Bros. This laid the foundations for Gunn to eventually become the co -president of DC Studios, and his DCU debut film, Superman, He proved to be a great success. And that success means that their former Marvel bosses now have to worry about a popular rival film universe, even when the MCU is recovering from high profile failures as The rays and The Fantastic Four: First Steps.

James Gunn has never claimed to be a champion of anything, except a good storytelling

When comparing their careers, I cannot avoid noticing that James Gunn had something that Joss Whedon apparently did not do: the collective support of almost everyone who previously worked with him. Gunn repeatedly recognized the immaturity of his former provocative social media publications and apologized for them, but all generally understood that these were only words (although children’s and offensive words).

Whedon wrote his own narrative and made it look like a women’s champion. Meanwhile, his publicly acceptable personality supposedly hid (according to his ex -wife and multiple former actors) a history of OSY Misoginia, cruelty and abuse in the set.

That leads us to the present: Gunn’s career survived an attempt to cancel, while Whedon’s career vanished silently. And now, as the architect of the DCU, Gunn is doing for superhero movies what even Whedon could not do in the height of his power and influence. Move, Joss: You have been dethroned as the king of the nerds.

And judging how fun Gunn seems to be, one thing is still clear. It’s good to be the king!