James Gunn Shares Lots of Cool Insight and Details For GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
During a recent livestream commentary for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, director James Gunn shared a lot of new and cool details regarding the film. So, while you may have seen the movie a ton of times already, you can now watch it with some interesting new insight that fans will appreciate.
I love learning new things about the films I love and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a favorite of mine. What better way to learn new things about a film than from the guy who directed it! You can check out all of the most interesting things he shared below.
The Guardians were originally only supposed to be a cameo in Avengers: Infinity War:
Dairy Queen was used for nostalgic purposes:
Kurt Russell kept calling Star-Lord “Star Wars”":
This was the easiest movie making experience Gunn had when dealing with a studio:
Gunn was inspired by Field of Dreams while shooting one scene:
There was a direct reference to North by Northwest:
Ego uses pop culture to manipulate Star-Lord:
Gunn new that Gamora was going to die in Infinity War:
There are a lot of Easter Eggs to look for in the skull pile of Ego’s murdered kids:
Gunn explains that Vol. 2 is autobiographical:
Why did Rocket make a bomb with only one button?:
There is an outtake of Yondu saying, “I’m Mary Poppins, motherfuckers!”
Nubula’s hand hug was Karen Gillan’s idea:
Rocket sees the possibility of God for the first time in his life:
The backstory for the toe: