During a recent Facebook Live Q&A witnessed by many fans, director James Gunn, while discussing the first
Guardians Of The Galaxy movie, revealed a surprising connection to
Star Wars which Kevin Feige, President of Marvel Studios, wanted to be included in the film which didn't make the final cut. It featured in one of the earliest drafts of the script but was omitted from the later versions.
In the screenplay that was written by Nicole Perlman before I came on to Guardians, Kevin had asked that Star-Lord have these Star Wars figures that he loved. And so these Star Wars figures were in the movie and played a big part in it. But I thought that didn't work for me, so I took them out.
It makes sense that Peter Quill would be a Star Wars fan, as a child of the 80s and having reminisced about other 80s pop culture in the movies. But sadly, with Peter's childhood backpack seemingly destroyed along with the first Milano during the finale of the first movie, it's highly unlikely they will appear in a future installment. Though with the Guardians set to visit Earth in the upcoming Avengers: Infinity War movies, perhaps Peter's fondness for the franchise will show-through.
Having revealed no other reasoning besides them not working for him, many believe the figures may have played the part of Quill's connection to Earth and his mother which Gunn switched out for popular music of the 1980s in the form of Awesome Mix Vol. 1 and 2 since he seems to have been a major proponant of the music's inclusion.
Would you have liked for these Star Wars figures to have been included? If so, assuming the speculation is correct, would you have preferred them over the Awesome Mix tapes?