Disney recently fired James Gunn from directing Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and severed their relationship with him following disturbing tweets that resurfaced from ten years ago joking about rape and pedophilia.

Now it's learned following Gunn's dismissal that Star Wars: The Last Jedi director Rian Johnson apparently proceeded to delete over 20,000 tweets.

According to Twitter users and a YouTube video below, Rian Johnson had 22.3K tweets, but then deleted them down to around 1,100.

It's presently unknown what the tweets stated, some of which can be found on the internet archive site that takes screenshots: web.archive.org.

Following Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Rian Johnson was announced on a new untitled Star Wars trilogy for Disney.

Disney hired James Gunn back in 2012 for Guardians of the Galaxy; Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn released the following statement about firing James Gunn from the company: “The offensive attitudes and statements discovered on James’ Twitter feed are indefensible and inconsistent with our studio’s values, and we have severed our business relationship with him."

James Gunn has since apologized (and has apologized many times in the past):