James Gunn on why the Guardians Of The Galaxy movie didn't need Thanos, but the Marvel cinematic universe did.
This article contains spoilers for Guardians Of The Galaxy.
Writer and director James Gunn is, as you more than likely well know, the man who's given Marvel perhaps its most unexpected hit to date, Guardians Of The Galaxy. The film has taken over $700m worldwide, and a sequel is already in the works.
Now, in a new chat with Vulture, Gunn has been talking about the pressure on him to get the character of Thanos right in the first Guardians Of The Galaxy movie. He told the site that the pressure came "because you’re setting up this gigantic character that, in one way, isn’t really a part of your movie. His presence doesn’t really serve being in Guardians, and having Thanos be in that scene was more helpful to the Marvel universe than it was to Guardians Of The Galaxy."
He added that "I always wanted to have Thanos in there, but from a structural standpoint, you don’t need him. So that’s part of it, and then part of it is the fact that you’re setting up this incredibly powerful character, but you don’t want to belittle the actual antagonist of the film, which is Ronan. You don’t want him to seem like a big wussy. So how do you make that work?"
Which explains why Ronan then kills the Other in the film. "I thought that was interesting, because we’ve had the Other, who’s obviously very powerful even in comparison to Loki, and then we see Ronan wipe his ass with him."
You can read more on the challenges Gunn faced with Guardians Of The Galaxy at Vulture, here. Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 arrives in May 2017.
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