James Gunn has revealed that his intention in writing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 wasn’t to set up the events of Avengers: Infinity War.
Director of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, James Gunn, who has recently been fired from his role at Marvel due to some old and unseemly tweets, has revealed his writing process for Guardians Vol. 2 during a roundtable for the special features of Avengers: Infinity War’s home release (Via Screen Rant).
Gunn says that although his film leads nicely into Avengers: Infinity War, particularly with regards to Karen Gillan’s Nebula, his goal wasn’t to set up that movie:
“I didn’t ever have an ending for what Guardians 2 was supposed to be. I didn’t have a single story point that was ever discussed with Marvel before I wrote the story. So where that movie ends up, with Nebula going off and doing her thing, that’s what I mean by, people, we kind of do our own little thing. We write our own little story and then it goes off to [the Russos]. And I gave these guys a script very, very early on. And they were, like, ‘That’s perfect, because that works great for us with where Nebula is, what we want to do with the story.’ And it goes off.”
These comments certainly speak to the freedom that Marvel allowed directors like Gunn to make their movies, which is almost certainly reflected in the quality and uniqueness of the Guardians films.
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An unprecedented cinematic journey ten years in the making and spanning the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Studios’ “Avengers: Infinity War” brings to the screen the ultimate, deadliest showdown of all time. The Avengers and their Super Hero allies must be willing to sacrifice all in an attempt to defeat the powerful Thanos before his blitz of devastation and ruin puts an end to the universe.
Avengers: Infinity War stars Robert Downey Jr. (Iron Man), Chris Evans (Captain America), Mark Ruffalo (Hulk), Chris Hemsworth (Thor), Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow), Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther), Tom Holland (Spider-Man), Sebastian Stan (Winter Soldier), Anthony Mackie (Falcon), Paul Bettany (Vision), Elizabeth Olsen (Scarlet Witch), Don Cheadle (War Machine), Josh Brolin (Thanos), Benedict Cumberbatch (Doctor Strange), Benedict Wong (Wong), Chris Pratt (Star-Lord), Zoe Saldana (Gamora), Dave Bautista (Drax), Bradley Cooper (Rocket), Sean Gunn (Rocket), Vin Diesel (Groot), Karen Gillan (Nebula), Pom Klementieff (Mantis), Tom Hiddleston (Loki), Samuel L. Jackson (Nick Fury), Cobie Smulders (Maria Hill), Benicio Del Toro (The Collector), Danai Gurira (Okoye), Letitia Wright (Shuri), Winston Duke (M’Baku), Terry Notary (Cull Obsidian), Tom Vaughan-Lawlor (Ebony Maw), Carrie Coon (Proxima Midnight), Michael James Shaw (Corvus Glaive) and Peter Dinklage (Eitri).
Originally published August 1, 2018. Updated August 2, 2018.
