The Original Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer Was Almost Scrapped

The Original Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer Was Almost Scrapped

Now, it’s hard to imagine Guardians of the Galaxy without that very first trailer. The one that introduced the characters through their mugshots and police records and heavily featured Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling”. But director James Gunn says they nearly tossed that trailer for one that tested better.

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Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter‘s Heat Vision, Gunn talked about how hard it is to make a trailer for something like Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 since people will be dissecting it for information almost immediately. (Guilty!) He added that he met with Marvel’s marketing group earlier this week about just how much to show of the movie because “there’s a lot of mysteries in Guardians 2“.

He also told a story about the first movie’s trailer, saying, “That trailer tested not very well. We had another trailer that was very cheesy that sold the movie as something different than what it was — that tested a little better.”

Forgive me if I’m wrong, but I remember most people really enjoying this trailer. I guess focus groups can be wrong.

Gunn continued:

And at the end of the day, the [marketing] guys were like, “This is what the movie is. We are selling what the movie is. Not something else.” You’ve got to sell the movie for what it is, and that’s what they did. They really bought my trust with that on the first movie.

The fact that the marketing people championed the more honest, but less well testing, trailer is actually very heartening. Especially in a cynical age. Or when faced with another movie reportedly forced into changes because people really liked a trailer which didn’t actually bear any resemblance to the finished product.

Anyway, point for the ad team on this one.


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