DC’s James Gunn Wants To Avoid Marvel’s Biggest MCU Mistake

If James Gunn’s time in the MCU proved anything, crossing the superhero streams was never an essential element of his storytelling. Even when there was a slight hint of dealing with a certain god of thunder, the «Guardians» director admitted he’d not have wasted any time giving Thor the boot. Speaking to Rolling Stone following the release of «Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,» Gunn revealed Thor hitching a ride with Star-Lord wasn’t on his to-do list. «They chose to have that ending in editing,» he explained. «And I didn’t think it was gonna be in there. ‘Endgame’ came out right after I decided to do ‘Guardians’ again. So I didn’t have much say in what was in ‘Endgame’, and then it came out, and then I was like, ‘What the f**k am I gonna do?’»

The issue, as we now know, got dealt with in «Thor: Love and Thunder,» although Gunn admitted the sort of tactics he’d have applied if the Asgardian had stuck around. He recalled how he welcomed the news from Marvel Studios head, Kevin Feige, that Taika Waititi was going to handle Thor parting ways. «I said, ‘Thank God!’… To be completely honest, Thor was never going to be in this movie. Taika took a bullet for me. Because I was not going to have him in. I was just gonna start up, and there’s no Thor.» It’s this kind of inconvenient placement of major Marvel players that the franchise seems to be suffering from lately, and there’s no better example than Thor’s own stepbrother and his newest opposition.