James Gunn Reveals That Yondu Was Originally Going To Explode
During a live Q&A on his Facebook page James Gunn revealed that at one point Rocket was meant to blow up Michael Rooker's Yondu. Hit the jump to check it out.
Tonight Guardians of the Galaxy director, James Gunn, hosted a live Q&A for the Marvel film. During he Q&A James Gunn reveals ineresting tidbits about the movie. Among those bits include the fact that Rocket was originally supposed to blow up the Ravager, Yondu.
JAMES GUNN: In the original script (that I wrote) Rocket had a little bomb in this scene. At the end Quill put it in the Orb when he gave it to Yondu. And, as Yondu flew away at the very end, his whole ship exploded!! A lot of people were really upset when I took that out of the script, but I had a feeling that people would like Yondu too much for that.
He also reveals that Pesident of Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, at one point wanted The Mad Titan Thanos cut from the film.
JAMES GUNN: This THanos scene was hard. People read an interview with me saying Thanos talking about how difficult he was to put in the movie. They seemed to take it to mean that I didn't want him in the movie and Marvel did. But I CHOSE to have him in the film. Kevin at one point wanted to take him out. But I didn't want to lose the connection to the Avengers since more people would see the movie. I also like Thanos. But he was difficult because he made the relationships to the other characters so difficult and more complicated - and he served future stories more than this one.