Guardians of the Galaxy scoort wereldwijd als een mallen en is nog lang niet klaar met zijn zegetocht. In deze film zit ook weer een bekende Stan Lee Cameo, maar James Gunn had eigenlijk heel iets anders in gedachten met het Marvel icoon. Want deze zou in de kamer van The Collector te zien zijn en Groot de middel vinger geven. We hebben helaas geen video voor je, maar wel een foto.

"In the original cut of the film, when the Guardians enter the Collector's museum, Rocket looks over and sees Cosmo the dog in one display case, Quill looks over into another display case and is surprised by a tentacle slapping against the glass, and Groot looks over and sees, in another display case, Stan Lee. In one take, Stan Lee just slowly turns up his finger, flipping off Groot. We shot this footage with a Stan Lee double because Stan wasn't able to come to the UK at the time. The plan was to shoot Stan in the same lighting when I was back in LA, and we'd digitally replace the double's head with Stan's actual head (not quite as difficult as it sounds). Although I thought the cameo was funny, I thought the flipping off joke was too similar to the moment earlier in the film where Quill flips off the Nova Corps, so I excised that part of it immediately. A couple of the guys at Marvel thought Stan Lee in a case was too broad of a joke in general, and that it took the audience out of the movie. I argued about it for a bit, but we ended up not keeping it in the film."