James Gunn Describes Alternate GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Ending

It isn’t a big surprise to learn that there was an alternate ending for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. It’s a pretty common practice and usually either makes for a great legend, or (more recently) a great blu ray Easter egg.

Walk talking to Slashfilm, director James Gunn spilled the beans on his original plan for the ending of the film and why he decided to give us the one that showed up on the big screen.

There are three characters that got cut out [of the “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough” montage]: Nebula, the Collector and Grandpa Quill. Nebula and Collector we decided, at a certain point, they’re kind of bad guys in the first movie. It was a real joyous experience with that finale so we thought we’d keep it to the characters that were part of “the good team.” Which includes Yondu. He did fight on the good guys side. So we thought we would keep it to them.

Grandpa Quill we cut because he was in old age make up and we were a little afraid people wouldn’t recognize that it was him from the beginning of the movie. And also, it was a pretty sad moment. It was Grandpa Quill and he has this photograph of Meredith and Peter as a little boy and he looks up at the stars and we go up to the stars and it was really sweet. It means that he must have seen Quill getting abducted at the end of that day and is still waiting for him to return but it was freaking sad so we took it out.

Nebula’s was actually my favorite. Nebula’s I really liked a lot because she’s lost her arm and she’s just pissed off and she’s just walking through this field all pissed off with a busted Ravager vehicle behind her. And she’s just pissed off and I loved it.

Source: Slashfilm