

“When I reflect on it, it’s unusual,” says Gunn, who began his career at the infamous B-movie horror studio Troma. (Longtime film producer Peter Safran is the other co-CEO and co-chairman.) Gunn is writing and directing a Superman movie, due in 2025, to boot. Five years later, not only is Guardians 3 on its way, he’s risen from brief unemployment and purported disgrace to showbiz moguldom as the newly appointed co-CEO, co-chairman, and creative guardian of Marvel’s rival, Warner Bros.’ DC Studios. Gunn was convinced his career was over, that he’d have to sell his house. In July 2018, right-wing trolls unearthed some of his old, deliberately edgy joke tweets, leading Disney to fire him from the already-in-the-works third chapter. Even by the roller-coaster standards of Hollywood career arcs, the last few chapters of his working life have been truly weird - like, talking-space-raccoon-, walking-tree-level weird. For the new movie, the idea is that songs are sourced from the Microsoft Zune Peter got his hands on at the end of Guardians 2, which freed Gunn from being restricted to any particular decade - thus making the song picks much harder.įor a while, it looked like a third Guardians might not happen at all, or at least not with Gunn in charge. Pop songs have always been at the core of Guardians’ appeal, of course, with the first two movies scored by Seventies hits supposedly pulled from two cassette mixtapes made by the departed mother of Peter Quill, a.k.a. “It doesn’t start with ‘Come and Get Your Love.’ It starts with Radiohead’s acoustic version of ‘Creep.’ And that’s just a much different tone from the beginning than the other two films.” Blue Sky,'” says writer-director James Gunn, who’s already conjured two blockbusters out of an intergalactic-outcast saga starring characters even many hardcore Marvel fans barely knew. 3 will have a darker feel than its oft-comedic predecessors arrives immediately, with a musical choice. The first sign that May 5’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
