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James Gunn Refused To Include Thor In Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’s Post-Credit Scene; Here’s Why

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James Gunn defended his cherished Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, even when it meant pushing back against the studio behind its production. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly, Gunn revealed he resisted the MCU’s interconnected timeline after witnessing Thor join the Guardians in the Avengers: Endgame finale.

“I said in the script notes: ‘I’m not gonna put him in. I don’t want to have Thor in the Guardians. I don’t want to do a movie with Thor,’” Gunn explained. “I don’t understand the character that much. I love watching his movies and I love Chris Hemsworth as a guy. I don’t understand how to write that character.”

Gunn also opened up about introducing Will Poulter as Adam Warlock in the post-credit scene of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. While this decision eventually led to the character’s role in Guardians 3, at the time, it felt like “fitting a square peg into a round hole.”

“I did not like what I did in Guardians 2, where we set up Adam Warlock and we set up the Guardians of the Galaxy and we set up all this shit that I didn’t necessarily plan on,” Gunn said. “Well, I guess I kind of planned on fulfilling that promise, but you want to be careful about that. The way a post-credits scene works is a punch to the face, like, ‘Oh my God! Look at this.’ At times when you’re using it just solely to set something up, sometimes you’re screwing yourself over. It was not easy to work Adam Warlock into Guardians 3.”

Fortunately, the situation with Thor’s arc alongside the Guardians also resolved itself. Gunn explained that Thor: Love and Thunder director Taika Waititi shouldered the responsibility of integrating Thor with the Guardians, granting Gunn full creative freedom for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

“They chose to have that ending in editing,” Gunn told Rolling Stone at the time. “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 fuck am I gonna do?’ That’s when [Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige] told me Taika’s gonna do Thor, and we’ll have the Guardians in it. 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.”

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