Kevin Feige Says Guardians Of The Galaxy Movies Succeeded "Entirely Because Of James Gunn"
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the end of the road for a lot of the gang, with most of the main cast saying they're done with the MCU after this movie. Likewise, writer/director James Gunn, who has shepherded the Guardian of the Galaxy series from the start, is already co-boss of rival DC Studios--he's not going to be making any more Marvel movies while he holds that job. Even so, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige had nothing but love for Gunn at the film's press conference with the cast ahead of the movie's release.
«What has this trilogy impressed upon you? Working with James, seeing his vision, watching this come to fruition and the fans reaction, what are you learning?» asked moderator Nathan Fillion, who also had a supporting role in Guardians 3.
«You know, we've had trilogies before. We've had a number of them, actually. And I was thinking, 'Why does this feel so different and so much of a passage of some sort?'» Feige reflected on the stage. «And it's because Guardians really was the first movie that was completely outside of the realm. It tied in with Thanos and Infinity Stones. But The Avengers were not in it. And we weren't setting up Tony Stark's next adventure, or Captain America.
»It was really our attempt of saying: 'We don't wanna just do superhero movies. We don't want to just do Iron Man movies or Avengers movies.' And we wanted to do, as James said earlier, a big space movie. And it worked in a crazy way. It worked entirely because of James Gunn. So, it just feels like this trilogy, and James writing and directing all three of them, it represents something unique within the pantheon of the MCU, that I'm very proud of."
Fillion then asked Feige if he would have done anything differently with these
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