James Gunn confesses the only thing to Marvel that he never understood: “I have no idea”

James Gunn I spent a lot of time playing in the Marvel Sandbox cinema universe with his films of Guardians of the Galaxy, who helped to define the tone of Marvel’s narration during the Infinity saga.

But, as Gunn reveals, there is a great piece of the Marvel puzzle that has never made sense for him … the notorious “phases”.

In a recent interview with GQ, Gunn did not hold back when he was asked how MCU organizes his time sequence:

“I never understood what they were any of the phases in wonder. I don’t know what it means, how, I have no idea what it means. I have no idea what one of things ever means.”

Gunn was there at a fundamental moment in which Marvel was modeling the plot of Infinity Stones. He was asked to include them in his first guardian film. The now iconic scene with the collector (Benicio del Toro) Explain the stones? Gunn wrote it … fast.

“I wrote that scene in about three minutes, and they just said:” Explain what the Infinity Stones are “and I wrote it, and that’s it.”

Although he had a hand in one of the most important pieces of the MCU tradition, Gunn did not know how everything adapted to the wider picture.

Marvel, at the time, had just started putting infinite stones in her broadest narration. They had appeared in previous films, but there was no large unified plan until Marvel was committed to the idea of ​​the crossover narrative. When Gunn wrote Guardians, they told him to anchor one of the stones in the history of his film.

But even then, the process was not exactly without continuity. Gunn initially thought that his stone would be red, until he had been told that the red one had already appeared Thor: The Dark World. So, it was changed in Purple … in post.

The previous phases of Marvel had beats clear. The first phase ended with The AvengersPhase two with Ant-Man (strangely) and phase three with the stone of the emotional hood of Endgame. But now, with TV programs folded in the mix and less cohesion in general, it is easy to understand the confusion of Gunn.

Also Ironheart recently marked the end of phase five, despite fans expected Thunderbolts* To take that place. This inconsistency further demonstrates Gunn’s point: the “phases” are more a loose structure of a carefully mapped strategy, at least from the director’s point of view.

In the end, Gunn was playing in the Marvel sandbox, Gunn was not entirely sure of which part of the playground he was.