Dave Bautista threatens to quit ‘Guardians of the Galaxy 3’

Guardians
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• Dave Bautista told Short List that he would ask to be
  released from his contract if James Gunn’s “Guardians of the
  Galaxy 3” script wasn’t used. 
• “I’d be doing James a disservice if I didn’t,” he
  said.
• Gunn had finished the script and was going to start
  filming later this year before being fired.
• The movie is scheduled for release in 2020.

Dave Bautista is taking his displeasure with James Gunn’s firing
to a new level. 

The “Guardians of the Galaxy” actor told Short List that he would ask
Marvel to release him from his contract on the third movie if it
didn’t use Gunn’s script. Disney fired Gunn last month from
“Guardians 3” over offensive tweets from years ago that
conservative personalities resurfaced.

“Where I’m at right now is that if [Marvel] don’t use that
script, then I’m going to ask them to release me from my
contract, cut me out or recast me,” Bautista said. “I’d be doing
James a disservice if I didn’t.”

He added that he spoke to costar Chris Pratt after Gunn was
fired, but Pratt “wanted time to pray and figure it out.”

“But I was more like: f— this,” Bautista said. “This is
bulls—. James is one of the kindest, most decent people I’ve
met.”

Gunn had recently finished the script for the movie and was
set to begin filming later this year before being fired.

Bautista has been the most outspoken out of the entire
“Guardians” cast about Gunn’s firing, and tweeted over the
weekend that it was “nauseating” to work for
Disney now.

Bautista, Pratt, and the rest of the “Guardians” cast
released a letter last week in
support of Gunn, but, according to Variety, Disney does not have
any plans to re-hire him.

“Guardians of the Galaxy 3” is scheduled to come to
theaters in 2020.