Gamora Returns in the Super Bowl 2023 "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3" Trailer

Back in 2018, Gunn was fired from "GOTG 3" when some of his inappropriate tweets from a decade ago were resurfaced by conservative online personalities. Soon after his firing, nine principal names from the "Guardians of the Galaxy" franchise — Pratt, Saldana, Cooper, Diesel, Klementieff, Bautista, Gillan, Gunn, and Michael Rooker — signed a joint statement asking Disney to rehire him.

For a while, it seemed like Marvel would go ahead with another director, but just under a year after the news first broke, the studio revealed that Gunn was reinstated as director. In response to the news, Gunn tweeted a statement, writing, "I deeply appreciate Disney's decision and I am excited to continue making films that investigate the ties of love that bind us all."