James Gunn stood his floor to guard his extremely beloved “Guardians of the Galaxy” franchise, even towards the studio that produced it.

In a current interview with Leisure Weekly, Gunn mentioned he fought again towards the MCU’s linked timeline after he noticed Thor be part of the Guardians within the “Avengers: Endgame” post-credit scene.

“I mentioned within the script notes: ‘I’m not gonna put him in. I don’t need to have Thor within the Guardians. I don’t need to do a film with Thor,’” Gunn defined. “I don’t perceive the character that a lot. I like watching his films and I like Chris Hemsworth as a man. I don’t perceive methods to write that character.”

Gunn additionally mentioned teasing Will Poulter as Adam Warlock within the post-credit scene of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.” Though it panned out with the character’s main function in “Guardians 3,” on the time, it felt like “becoming a sq. peg right into a spherical gap.”

“I didn’t like what I did in ‘Guardians 2’ the place we arrange Adam Warlock and we arrange the ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ and we arrange all this shit that I didn’t essentially plan on,” Gunn mentioned. “Nicely, I suppose I sort of deliberate on fulfilling that promise, however you need to watch out about that. The best way a post-credits scene works is a punch to the face, like, ‘Oh my God! Have a look at this.’ At occasions once you’re utilizing it simply solely to set one thing up, typically you’re screwing your self over. It was not straightforward to work Adam Warlock into ‘Guardians 3.’”

Issues additionally panned out with Thor’s arc with the Guardians. In 2023, Gunn mentioned “Thor: Love and Thunder” director Taika Waititi took on the burden of connecting Thor with the Guardians, leaving him with full inventive flexibility for “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.”

“They selected to have that ending in enhancing,” Gunn informed Rolling Stone on the time. “And I didn’t assume it was gonna be in there. Endgame got here out proper after I made a decision to do ‘Guardians’ once more. So I didn’t have a lot say in what was in ‘Endgame,’ after which it got here out after which I used to be like, ‘What the fuck am I gonna do?’ That’s when [Marvel Studios president] Kevin [Feige] informed me Taika’s gonna do ‘Thor,’ and we’ll have the Guardians in it. I mentioned ‘Thank God!’… To be fully sincere, Thor was by no means going to be on this film. Taika took a bullet for me. As a result of I used to be not going to have him in. I used to be simply gonna begin up and there’s no Thor.”