{"id":151287,"date":"2025-09-21T14:11:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151287\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T14:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T14:11:15","slug":"james-gunn-reveals-worst-note-he-got-from-marvel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/151287\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Reveals Worst Note He Got From Marvel"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first Guardians of the Galaxy<\/a> movie could have sounded a lot different if writer-director James Gunn<\/a> hadn\u2019t ignored what he considers to be one of the worst notes he\u2019s ever received.<\/p>\n

What was the worst note James Gunn ever received for Guardians of the Galaxy?<\/p>\n

While responding to some questions on the social media platform Threads, Gunn was asked to share the worst note he had ever received for one of his movies. \u201cI was told no one would like the Guardians soundtrack and I should change it to Britney Spears like 90\u2019s songs. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s the worst but it\u2019s the one I remember the most!\u201d Gunn recalled.<\/p>\n

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The soundtrack for Gunn\u2019s 2014 superhero movie featured songs that were part of the mixtape that was in Peter Quill\u2019s possession when he was taken by the Ravagers. Since he was a child when he left Earth, all of the songs are from the 1960s and 1970s. Despite someone at Marvel<\/a> not thinking the soundtrack would be a hit, the opposite happened, with the album reaching #1 on the US Billboard 200 chart, which marked the first time that a soundtrack album consisting entirely of previously released songs had topped the chart<\/p>\n

The soundtrack album not only ended up being certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America but was the second best-selling soundtrack album of 2014 in the United States, behind Disney\u2019s Frozen. The movie\u2019s soundtrack also introduced a whole new generation to such hits as \u201cHooked on a Feeling\u201d by Blue Swede and \u201cAin\u2019t No Mountain High Enough\u201d by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell. <\/p>\n

The Guardians of the Galaxy movies ultimately became known for their soundtracks, with 2017\u2019s Vol. 2 and 2023\u2019s Vol. 3 notably featuring the songs \u201cMr. Blue Sky\u201d by Electric Light Orchestra and \u201cDog Days Are Over\u201d by Florence and the Machine, respectively. <\/p>\n

The Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy is available to stream on Disney+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first Guardians of the Galaxy movie could have sounded a lot different if writer-director James Gunn hadn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[96,69482,1155,5396,6461,5228,7468,6462,2839,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-151287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy","tag-james-gunn","tag-marvel","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-marvel-studios","tag-mcu","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}