James Gunn

It wasn't as pure of a joy as, say, when I got the first Guardians movie, because that was me doing something I knew how to do.

This was kind of creating a new job that hasn't existed, because there hasn't ever been a creative in the position of studio head.

Yeah, I guess, yeah.

But also you do need to manage a lot of stuff, so there's part of it.

And that's what, I would never do the job without Peter Safran.

Yeah, there used to be something called the Creative Committee at Marvel.

And it was, you know, comic book people and toy people and all these people that would chime in with their notes on scripts.

And I think that's fine that, you know, they give notes because, you know, one of the things that you hear all these people being afraid of notes all the time, but you don't usually you don't have to use them.

You just have to listen to them.

And people are usually happy if you just listen.

If you listen and then you say, I don't know, because of this, they're usually OK.

Yeah.

But they were a little bit.

acted as if they were the authority on everything.

And so Kevin and I, we'd be working on Guardians of the Galaxy, and we'd have that final screenplay, and then all of a sudden we'd get these lists of things that needed to be changed

And it always felt to me like I was watching that show, The Nick, at the time when they used to do operations and they'd have the audience members there.

And it felt like a couple of brain surgeons performing brain surgery and having a bunch of podiatrists around telling them how to do it.

And it was just like, you know, I mean, they told me to take the songs out.

You know, when they saw the first cut and Bradley was doing Rocket's voice as a character, they were like, why do we pay all this money without, you know, he doesn't sound like Bradley Cooper.

I'm like, yeah, he's playing a character.