30 June 2013 10:04 AM, PDT | NextMovie | See recent NextMovie news »
"Avengers" director, Marvel consultant and ultimate geek icon Joss Whedon recently had an extended red carpet chat with the folks over at Collider and he revealed a startling secret: He initially thought making a "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie was a pretty bad idea.
"It seemed out there to me," Whedon said. "I sort of went, 'I don't know about this.'"
So what changed his mind? Two words: Rocket Raccoon.
"Then they brought on [director] James [Gunn]," Whedon explained. "As soon as they said James, the movie started to make sense to me in a way it hadn't. This isn't a guy that is going to chase 'Star Wars.' He's going to make a James Gunn movie. And James' first thing was, 'I love Rocket. It's all the raccoon.' And a lot of people were like, 'really, a raccoon?' And he's like, 'the raccoon is the heart. »
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