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James Gunn nearly blew up his career. Now he’s back with The Suicide Squad

James Gunn, the filmmaker behind Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy science-fiction series, had tweeted many deliberately crude jokes about the Holocaust, the 9/11 attacks, AIDS, pedophilia and rape.

Now they had been resurfaced, steering waves of criticism his way. Gunn was fired from a planned third Guardians movie and he believed his career was over. “It seemed like everything was gone,” he said recently.