It went down late Friday afternoon, after Disney summarily fired James Gunn from the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise (he was working on the script for Vol. 3) after old tweets containing insensitive and offensive jokes were resurfaced and circulated online.
But if Gunn really is gone for good, Marvel needs to find a new director to helm the Guardians series, and quickly.
The entire Marvel Cinematic Universe is still reeling from the news.
The biggest comic-book story of the weekend didn’t happen at Comic-Con.