James Gunn refused to put Chris Hemsworth’s Thor in ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3’

James Gunn has revealed he refused to put Thor in Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3, following the character’s integration into the group after Avengers: Endgame.

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Chris Hemsworth’s God Of Thunder ended up with The Guardians following the victory over Thanos in Endgame, although he leaves the group in the first act of 2022’s Thor: Love And Thunder. This meant by the time Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 was released in 2023, Gunn didn’t have to deal with the extra character.

Now working for Marvel rivals DC, Gunn told Entertainment Weekly that he flat out refused to include the character in any of his films.

“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”.

The director made all three Guardians films for Marvel, working on DC projects The Suicide Squad (2021) and TV show Peacemaker in-between. In late 2022, Gunn was made co-CEO of the newly formed DC Studios, overseeing the rebooted DC Universe which will launch on the big screen this summer with Superman. Gunn directs David Corenswet in the lead, with the blockbuster due in cinemas on July 11.

Elsewhere in the interview, the filmmaker discussed the pitfalls of promising things in credit scenes, using Adam Warlock (Will Poulter) in Guardians Of The Galaxy as an example. He confessed: “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”.

James Gunn Added: “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”.

Recently, a five-minute clip from Superman, featuring the hero’s dog Krypto, was teased ahead of the cinema release.

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