It's been more than a year since music icon David Bowie passed, and as it turns out, Marvel was planning on having him cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 before his death. Thanks to a Q&A session of Facebook, James Gunn has revealed who he planned Bowie to play in Guardians 2.
Gunn wrote:
"I wanted David Bowie to play a member of Yondu's original crew."
If that were the case, we would either have gotten Bowie standing alongside Sylvester Stallone in the brothel planet or near the end with the rest of the "original" Guardians from the comics.
Gunn has not been shy to talk about Bowie's influence to him, and he had written a lengthy note on his Facebook when he found out that Bowie has died. He wrote:
Bowie was an idol of mine, huge and omnipresent. Few artists in any field have had as an indelible impression upon me as he has. To my mind, Ziggy Stardust is perhaps the greatest rock and roll album of all time. We featured "Moonage Daydream" in Guardians, but I always thought the album's character was felt far beyond that, in the aesthetics, in the integral and seemingly-natural linking in popular culture of '70's rock and space opera. I've been trying to work another song from Ziggy into the sequel, which would make Bowie the only artist to have a song on both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2. I thought this was fair and appropriate. Although I cut the scene it was used in from the script, we have the rights. Who knows. Maybe I can figure a way out.
Like Gunn wrote, the first Guardians movie did in fact have Bowie's Moonage Daydream during one sequence, but we didn't get any Bowie songs for Vol. 2. It is worth noting, however, that Bowie's Suffragette City was used in one of the promotions for Guardians. I'm wondering if it's the same song that was cut from the movie.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 gets digitally released Aug. 8, and the Blu-Ray/DVD release comes out Aug. 22.
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