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2. Marvel Had No Input On Guardians Vol. 2's Plot

Though it's often reported online that Kevin Feige and Marvel Studios as a whole exercise a firm measure of control over the MCU's movies, it's interesting to hear James Gunn talk about just how much freedom he had to deliver his own, unencumbered vision for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2:

"I didn't ever have an ending for what Guardians 2 was supposed to be. I didn't have a single story point that was ever discussed with Marvel before I wrote the story. So, where that movie ends up, with Nebula going off and doing her thing, that's what I mean by people, we kind of do our own things.

We write our own little story, and then it goes off to these guys, and I gave [the Russos] a script very, very early on, and they were like, 'That's perfect, because that works great for us with where Nebula is, what we want to do with the story', and it goes off. And I think that is the fluid nature of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It's that moving from story to story and letting a Russo brothers movie be a Russo brothers movie."