James Gunn

You're thinking that this raccoon is a drawback, but what if this raccoon was real?

Like, how would this raccoon come to be?

So I imagine, like, what if this raccoon was real?

And I'm like, oh, my God, this raccoon would be the saddest creature in the universe.

He's created in a...

Petri dish, basically.

He doesn't, you know, has nothing like him in the universe.

He's completely alone.

And so it was that was sort of the soul of the movie.

And then I started thinking how much I loved Star Wars when I was a little kid and what Star Wars meant to me.

And I thought that I could create that

not by mimicking Star Wars, but making Star Wars for what would work with kids today.

So bringing some of the color back.

When I walked into the supermarket and saw C-3PO and Chewbacca on the cover of People magazine, I was like, oh my God, who are those guys?

That's so cool.

I knew that I could do that.

Yeah.

I think it was like, and with the music, it was really like, I'm creating this space opera with all these characters that people don't know, and it's totally wacky and weird.

So how do you ground this in the coolest way possible?

And I'm like, well, 70s AM pop would work perfectly over this.