I’m not opposed to shaking things up as far as Marvel properties are concerned, as long as it’s compelling. With that said, there’s not a fiery chance in hell that this will ever come to pass, but Chris Pratt‘s ideas for when the Guardians make it to Earth are too good to pass up. Recently some of the cast and crew were in London promoting GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, and James Gunn let slip what Pratt has in mind.
As James Gunn tells it:
Chris and I were driving somewhere and we were having one of our ridiculous conversations about Guardians and what we could do with this universe, and he looked at me and said, “Dude, I really, really think Star-Lord should kill Iron Man. It would be so awesome if he just came down, and shot Tony Stark in the face. People would be so surprised!”
As Chris Pratt adds:
Marvel will never use any of my ideas, so this isn’t a spoiler, but in the comics, Tony Stark and Gamora have a little thing – and how does Peter Quill feel about that? And he’s all like, “I don’t like it” and then Rocket hears the “I don’t like it” and so he shoots Tony Stark in the face?! That would be awesome! People would be super mad, but it would be kind of great! Everyone would be like, “Why did you do that?” And Marvel would be like, “Robert Downey Jr. earns $100 million a picture and we can’t afford him anymore. Pratt works minimal wage and he’ll kill anybody.”
Gunn goes on to elaborate that the rest of the film would be a Marvel WEEKEND AT BERNIES affair. You can listen to the press conference here. Personally, I don’t care how pissed off people would be at that. It would be too great. Bring it on for AVENGERS 3! Just kill him off in like the first 5 minutes of the movie and leave everyone scratching their heads.
GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY hits theaters on August 1, 2014.