I would respect Disney more if they were just like "Dude said some dumbass shyt, but we ain't fukking up this paper" than to go through with firing dude and pretending like they care. I think that's more offensive than anything.Deadline says marvel never even reached out to anyone else to direct. So yeah this was always the plan. Like someone said, the move was probably to make sure the merger went through then bring him back in the fold.
On one hand, man it pays to not have melanin in this world. On the other hand, dude got his hustle on. Took a job across town, gets to do that job first, and then do this one second.
Him, Brock, and sable need to teach a class on finessing old white men