“It’s the perfect song to start the movie,” says Gunn, “because it’s really joyous, but there’s a really dark underpinning to it.” Blue Sky” – which scores what Gunn calls “the most hugely insane shot I’ve ever done,” early in the film. This time, Gunn had a bigger budget, which allowed him to include familiar songs from superstar acts: George Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord,” Fleetwood Mac’s “The Chain” (every band member watched the scene that features the song before giving approval) and ELO’s “Mr. 2, due May 5th, with its soundtrack album out April 21st. 2,” music will be just as essential to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1.” “They were songs that people had heard,” says Gunn, “but probably didn’t know the name of.”Īfter a chart-topping, platinum soundtrack album, the awesomeness of that mix is no longer in doubt – and since the movie ended with Pratt’s character, Peter Quill, discovering “Awesome Mix Vol.

Gunn’s conceit was that the tunes were playing on an ancient Walkman toted around by Chris Pratt’s character, who owns just one cassette, given to him by his mom just before her death: the homemade “Awesome Mix Vol. “Nobody,” he recalls them saying, “is going to want to hear this music.” Gunn had laced the movie with eight-track-era gems – Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love,” Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling” – but skeptics were sure that, say, Nineties Britney would be more commercial. While director James Gunn was finishing 2014’s smash Guardians of the Galaxy, he kept getting one note from a few Marvel Studios employees.

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