Marvel's Creative Committee Wanted James Gunn To Ditch GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY's Soundtrack
Kevin Feige got Marvel's Creative Committee out of his hair when he convinced Disney to make Marvel Studios a separate entity to Marvel Entertainment and now James Gunn has recounted how awful they were.
For a long time, directors and writers working on Marvel Studios movies received unwanted input from Marvel's Creative Committee, a group put together by Marvel Entertainment boss Ike Perlmutter. However, once Kevin Feige had reached the end of his tether with that, he managed to convince Disney and Bob Iger to make Marvel Studios a separate entity which would report to Disney and no one else.
In a new piece over at Vanity Fair, Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn has described the group as "a group of comic-book writers and toy people" who gave him "haphazard" notes about what he should be doing with Star-Lord and company in the movie. Chief among them was the removal of the 60s and 70s music which would ultimately become the Platinum-selling "Awesome Mix, Vol. 1."
Marvel's creative committee was made up of names like Marvel Comics Publisher Dan Buckley, Chief Creative Officer Joe Quesada, Marvel Entertainment President Alan Fine and writer Brian Michael Bendis. All but the latter seemingly still contribute to Marvel's small screen offerings and that could explain why those have failed to reach the lofty heights of the company's superior big screen efforts.
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