James Gunn Reveals Kevin Feige's Reaction to the F-Bomb in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3
James Gunn went out and made one of the best films in the MCU with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and I’m a little worried that this might be the last great Marvel movie. I hope not, but with how fast Marvel is pumping out movies these days, the quality of filmmaking has noticeably gone down. Gunn will also go down as the director that introduced the F-bomb to the MCU!
During a recent interview with JOE.ie, Gunn talked about this and he was legitimately concerned that he would be forced to remove the word by Kevin Feige, but that obviously never happened.
The scene with the F-bomb occurs when members of the Guardians team are rushing to get into a car and Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord screams at Nebula (Karen Gillan) to open the door. According to Gunn, the scene wasn’t planned, but in that moment of directing the scene, the director prompted Pratt to say it.
Gunn said: “We put it in the cut and it was just so damn funny. And I was like ‘Oh man, Disney is going to make me take this out, aren’t they?.’ They’ve never made me do anything. And I’m like, ‘This is the first time they’re gonna make me do something, and I’m going to be bummed out.'”
As for how Kevin Feige responded to the scene, Gunn said that he thought it was funny! He explained: “I said ‘What about that f-bomb?’ And [Kevin Feige] is like, ‘Well, you know, the Russo brothers had one in [Avengers: Endgame] at one point, and, you know, it got a big applause, but at the end of the day, the Russo brothers were like… They didn’t want that to be their legacy. And Kevin said ‘if you want that to be your legacy, then sure.’ And I said, ‘Kevin if you think you’re scaring me away instead of just enticing me even more to put this in the movie you’re crazy.’ And so that’s how it happened. And then he laughed his ass off.”
So, Gunn’s Marvel legacy will be the director that put the F-bomb in a Marvel movie. Not really, though, because they guy seriously made an awesome MCU trilogy!