In recent weeks, the latest hit from the Marvel universe has been released, as has been Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, although today it is not time to talk about this latest installment of these very peculiar heroes, but about its prequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, for a series of statements he has made James Gunn.
The director of this series of films was also the one who was in charge of their respective scripts. At first he was very clear about what the story should be and how it should end, but in the end he opted for give it a twist to modify its ending completelydespite the fact that he was not enthusiastic about the conclusion that we ended up seeing in the film.
This was stated in an interview he gave to Uproxx, as our colleagues from Espinof point out, but we advise you not to continue reading if you are one of those who have not yet seen this second part and you don’t want to eat any spoilers:
I didn’t want that to be the end, and in fact I refused to let that be the end for a long time. It wasn’t the way the movie should end. But, despite everything, he knew that it was the path he had to take. I knew we had to take risks on these movies. We needed to lose characters. And not everyone who watches Marvel movies likes that. They don’t like losing characters. But for the characters to make a difference, for their lives to really mean something, you need to have these kinds of losses.
Michael Rooker is, despite all the crap I throw at him all the time, one of my best friends in the whole world. I can’t imagine making a movie without him.
And it is that at first James Gunn did not want Yondu, the character played by Michael Rooker, to end up dying at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. It’s more, his idea was that it was Gamora the one that died in his place, although in Marvel they threw down that option so that this tragic moment would occur later in Avengers: Infinity War.
Even so, James Gunn is clear that the whole argument of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 it is built in such a way that it leads to that tragic scene to make it even more shocking:
The entire movie leads up to that moment. It seemed like it was calling me. And that is what really fills this story. It’s a story about a father’s love for his son, his ultimate love, who loves him so much that he sacrifices himself for him, and that’s what Yondu does. He is 100% Peter Quill’s father. And Ego is not his father 100%. The fact that Ego is biologically his father does not mean that she really is.
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