Yesterday,
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn took part of a press event for the
upcoming release of the film's DVD/Blu-Ray. While at the event the director was
asked if he thought the film had influenced Marvel's Phase 3.
"...Who knows how much we've
influenced Phase Three, but I think the one thing is that the Guardians aren't
backseat to The Avengers. Captain
America, Thor, those other movies really do support The
Avengers and they do take a back seat. But The Guardians are
their own thing and the cosmic side of the universe is its own thing. Because
the movie was so successful, and more successful than Iron Man was,
that changed the way other people looked at it, but I still look at it the same
way."
Gunn then said that "the main thing with moving on is that we can't just
repeat ourselves," adding, "we can't just say, 'Okay
let's start with something sad and shift into something really happy with some
music, and let's have the Awesome Mix work in the same way, but with songs from
the '80s as opposed to songs from the '70s.' And all of those things... that
doesn't interest me. For me, the shift is about getting to know the characters
on a deeper level, knowing them more intimately, and uncovering facets of the
characters that make them more real to us. Because at the center of it, I think
what works about Guardians is that people like the
characters."
The
director then spoke about some of the things we will see in Guardians 2, specifically
delving more into who the Guardians are.
"Looking
more deeply into the characters themselves and who they are and what they think
and what their flaws are and what their strengths are, you know," he said. "They're
a much more flawed group than The Avengers. They have major, major
issues."
While
on the subject of exploring the characters back-stories, Gunn was asked about
Peter Quill's father.
"[Star-Lord's] origins are different
in the movie,"he said. "I
just thought there was a more interesting way to go for the Cinematic Universe
that was more believable. There's things in the comic book that, on film,
seemed to come out a little too Star Wars to
me. And I'm not a great fan of the name J'son. So there will be a lot of
difference. You know, this really is the Cinematic Universe and the fun of it
for me, you know I always loved the Marvel Ultimate Comics that presented a
different story on the way that we're used to, and we saw characters in a new
light and they could show up in different places, different ages, different
ways. And I think that's exactly what the Marvel Cinematic Universe is. We see
things in a different light. They established that very well at the end of the
first Iron Manwhere
Tony Stark says 'I am Iron Man.' That was like Marvel Cinematic Universe's way
of saying 'we're different from the comics.'"
Finally, the director clarified a
statement he made yesterday, in regards Guardians of the Galaxy 3. The director
says that he was thinking about a larger Marvel Cosmic Universe, but not
necessarily Guardians 3.
"There was a big rash of 'James
Gunn Was Thinking Of Ideas For Guardians of the
Galaxy 3.' I don’t think I really said that. What I said was 'I had ideas
for Guardians
of the Galaxy 2. I knew what I was going to do for that, and I had ideas
for beyond that.' That doesn’t necessarily mean Guardians of the Galaxy 3
because there are a lot of different characters in this movie that could go in
a lot of different directions. And some of the characters I’m most interested
in aren’t necessarily Guardians of the Galaxy."
What
do you think?
Source
- High-Def Digest
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