We cannot really confirm what was on the list of tasks of James Gunn when he presented “Guardians of the Galaxy”, but what he easily struck with the battery understood to make “footloose” references, to transform Chris Pratt into megastar, and to bring down the romantic world of a raccoon that looked like Bradley Cooper. What the co-chief of DC Studios did with this group of intergalactic A holes was remarkable, and even more considering that he managed to give the Guardians a trilogy which led to some of the best entries in the Marvel cinematographic universe.
By thinking about the team of misfits, he helped to mold in the MCU, Gunn explained to GQ that there was a main objective that he had to give life to the Guardians, and it was to create his version of a story that a long time ago, in a galaxy far, far:
“I loved” Star Wars “as much as a child, and I started to see where it could be a film that did not look like” Star Wars “, but which had the effect on the children that” Star Wars “had on me when I was a child, when I entered, you know, the grocery store for the first time, and I saw C-3PO on the magazine of people. raccoon and a tree.
The trip to get to this point turned out to be tumultuous, however, because initially Gunn was not even sure that he was the right choice for the concert. It was only thanks to a traffic jam and the stew of the idea of ​​one of the most breathtaking characters of the Guardians that he finally warmed up at the idea, and made the hero in question the beating heart of the franchise from that moment.
Rocket Raccoon transformed James Gunn to direct the guards of the galaxy
If it seems impossible to imagine someone else at the head of one of the films “Guardians of the Galaxy” in addition to James Gunn, there was a time when the director was simply not convinced of the idea. “”[T]Hey showed me what they thought about these characters and what they were going to do, and I said to myself: “Hey, it looks a bit like Bugs Bunny in the middle of the Avengers,” I was not sure “, recalls questions. I really got out of there, not only not thinking that I would never have the concert, but also not really convinced that I wanted to do it anyway. “”
And yet something started to eat away. What he considered as the most difficult challenge in the history of the Guardians could prove to be his greatest strength. “”[I]It just came to me that if it was real, that this raccoon would be the saddest creature of the whole universe, and that it would feel completely and completely alone, and would have a very difficult period in life. For me, it was the start of the “guards”.
From there, the story that Gunn intended to be his version of “Star Wars” has become something different but just as significant in its own right. Not bad to do for a raccoon and a tree that could only say three words.
