Before Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 hit theatres, one of the officially-released promo clips revealed that the movie was going to feature the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first F-bomb.
In the scene, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) rushes the crew into action as they prepare to face-off against The High Evolutionary's forces. When Nebula (Karen Gillan) has some trouble getting the car door open, Quill walks her through it, before getting increasingly frustrated and telling his teammate to "open the f*cking door."
Director James Gunn has previously confirmed that the addition of the swear word was not planned, but he left it in after deciding that it made the sequence much funnier. Now, the filmmaker has admitted that he was somewhat apprehensive about keeping the F-bomb and was sure the studio was going to make him remove it.
"We put it in the cut and it was just so damn funny. And I was like 'Oh man, Disney is going to make me take this out, aren't they?,'" Gunn tells to JOE.ie. "They've never made me do anything. And I'm like, 'This is the first time they're gonna make me do something, and I'm going to be bummed out.'"
As it turns out, Gunn had no reason to be concerned, because Kevin Feige was fully on board with the bomb!
"I said 'What about that f-bomb?' And [Kevin Feige] is like, 'Well, you know, the Russo brothers had one in ['Avengers: Endgame'] at one point. And, you know, it got a big applause, but at the end of the day, the Russo brothers were like... They didn't want that to be their legacy. And Kevin said 'if you want that to be your legacy, then sure.' And I said, 'Kevin if you think you're scaring me away instead of just enticing me even more to put this in the movie you're crazy.' And so that's how it happened. And then he laughed his ass off."
You can check out a censored version of the scene below.
"In Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 our beloved band of misfits are settling into life on Knowhere. But it isn’t long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket’s turbulent past." "Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life—a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them."
Gunn writes and directs Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, featuring Vin Diesel as Groot, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter, and Maria Bakalova. Kevin Feige is the producer and Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Nikolas Korda, Simon Hatt, and Sara Smith serve as executive producers.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is now in theaters.