Last year, the world said goodbye to one of the music industry’s most influential talents. David Bowie passed away in January 2016, and Hollywood reached out to honor the icon in turn. It was then James Gunn revealed he had wanted Bowie to cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. And, over a year later, the director has revealed what his cameo for Bowie would have entailed.
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Earlier today, the director finally described what role he had in mind for Bowie. When Gunn was asked if he had a plan for the cameo, he said he had gotten so far as to talk with the musician’s people about joining the sequel.
“I did talk to David Bowie’s people about him being in a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy,” Gunn revealed (via CBR). “It would have been as one of the Ravagers, along with Michelle Yeoh and Ving Rhames and Sylvester Stallone and Michael Rosenbaum, but, unfortunately, David Bowie passed away.”
If you saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, then you will know just how the Ravagers fit into the film. The sequel featured members of Marvel’s original Guardians of the Galaxy team as characters like Starhawk and Charlie-27 made an appearance. There is no telling which Guardians 3000 member Bowie might have been eyed for, but Gunn ensured the musician still played a part in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. None of his songs were included on the film’s much-loved soundtrack, but “Suffragette City” was used for a TV spot.
This is not the first time Gunn has opened up about his desire to have Bowie cameo in the Guardians of the Galaxy films. The director wrote a lengthy Facebook post shortly after Bowie passed, and you can read up on Gunn’s tribute below:
“Just a very short while ago Kevin Feige and I were talking about a cameo role in Guardians Vol. 2, and he brought up Bowie’s name,” Gunn wrote. “I told him nothing in the world would make me happier, but I heard from common friends he wasn’t doing well. We heard back that he was okay and it could potentially happen. Who knows what that was about? But, for whatever reason, it made my Twitter revelation more of a surprise.”
“Bowie was an idol of mine, huge and omnipresent,” Gunn continued. “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.”
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is now available on Digital HD, DVD, and Blu-Ray.
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