James Gunn May Have Plans For Star-Lord And Co. Beyond GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2

"I very much knew that there were certain things about ‘Guardians’ that needed to stay the Marvel way, but then figuring out a way around them to do my own thing was I think part of what made me have so much fun with the movie. So there’s always those things, whether they’re budgetary or otherwise. And even on ‘Guardians,’ there was a lot of budgetary constraints."

James Gunn took a 180 mil budget and made what felt like a 300 mill film.

Gunn fully loaded

Also re: True Detective - it started off as a very promising existential horror/ crime drama and ended on a flat, cliched note. The skeptic becomes a believer after a near death experience. Yawn.

@RamonSuarez I couldn't agree more, especially with your comparison to the Hobbit. The Lord of the Rings has a realistic feel to it because CGI is only used when necessary. The look and even the PHYSICS of the Hobbit are so inconsistent and thats due to the oversaturation of CGI.

I agree..... The budget directly influences the script... And a tighter budget sometimes means a tighter script

@TheRaven20

To me Peter Jackson, like George Lucas before him, is a director that is becoming more and more interested in making fantastic characters look real and forgetting about to make them feel real in the process.

Take Yoda for example in Lucas' case.

Even though Yoda was basically a glorified Muppet in The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi the character never felt more real in all the Star Wars franchise than he did in those two movies because Lucas had to find ways of selling the character beyond his physical appearance. Lucas did that by making Yoda interact with Luke in a real and human way through deliberate dialogue, choreography, and camera work. Even though it wasn't perfect there was the illusion of a connection you could feel in the movie because so much effort was put into it.

By the time of Clone Wars saga, Yoda became another special effect digitally filled into an empty space that Lucas wanted to show off with.

And I think that a director like Gunn - who can be so off the wall hit or miss brilliant - has the potential of falling into that trap if he's given too much budget and technology to go crazy with his direction. He strikes me as the kind of guy who wants to always push the envelope and sometimes science fiction/space films like this are better when you hold back and realize that audiences connect with the familiar more than the uncanny.

Want a sequel??
Careful what you wish for..

"I think restraints of any kind can be a good thing for a movie. If you don't have all the cash to just throw at something it can mean you have to rely on your creativity more and think of ways round certain problems."

James Gunn. Agents of Atlas. NETFLIX. NOW!

@MexicanSuperman

Then I also disagree there too. Harrison Ford as Han Solo alone makes the cast in the original trilogy better than anything we saw in the prequels.

I would love for Gunn to mastermind the cosmic movies for Marvel... And can we get a brief intro to that Holy Church of Truth group floating out there in space causing trouble? That would be cool in a movie.

I want a batshit crazy Rocket & Groot movie (spinoff)

James Gunn should do The Inhumans.

@MexicanSuperman

No you couldn't.