Rian Johnson Tweets Deleted After James Gunn Firing: 'Why Not?'

Rian Johnson deleted 20,000 tweets from the last nine years just days after fellow film director James Gunn was fired over controversial tweets he wrote years earlier.

Johnson said in another tweet that he hadn’t deleted his tweets from before January 25 to try to hide anything he wrote in the past or as a directive from Disney, but that he thought it was a “no brainer,” People reported.

“I don’t think I’ve ever tweeted anything that bad. But it’s nine years of stuff written largely off the cuff as ephemera,” Johnson explained. “If trolls scrutinizing it for ammunition is the new normal, this seems like a ‘why not?’ move.”

No official directive at all, and I don’t think I’ve ever tweeted anything that bad. But it’s nine years of stuff written largely off the cuff as ephemera, if trolls scrutinizing it for ammunition is the new normal, this seems like a “why not?” move.

— Rian Johnson (@rianjohnson) July 25, 2018

Johnson also said there were apps that could delete all those tweets fast and easily in case anyone else wanted to be sure no one would find anything bad or offensive about them, People reported.

Johnson directed “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” and has been tapped to direct a new trilogy after J.J. Abrams takes over to finish out the current trilogy.

Gunn, who directed the first two “Guardians of the Galaxy” movies and had already written the script for the third, was fired July 20 after years-old tweets were brought to light in which he made insensitive jokes about pedophilia.

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