What’s the coolest movie NEVER made? We now have the answer.
Ahead of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2‘s release, Kurt Russell has been doing the interview rounds and spreading his particular brand of cool all across the world in the process. But one of those interviews was way cooler than the others. During a press junket for the Marvel sequel, FOX 5 DC got something out of Russell that has, to our knowledge, never before been revealed.
As Russell explained, he once pitched a movie years ago that would’ve pre-dated the era of the cinematic universe by bringing some our favorite characters together for one epic mashup!
He told the outlet:
Years ago I did think that it would be – and nobody would listen to me – I thought it’d be great to sort of take a bunch of the characters – guys like Bruce Willis and Stallone and Schwarzenegger and whatever. They all had one best character that I thought would be interesting in the action world. I thought it’d be fun to put those guys together. That would’ve been a realistic version of what Marvel did, but it was like talking to a wall. It was a little ahead of its time, I guess. I thought it would’ve been cool. And let them be the characters that they are.
Would Russell himself have starred? He added:
My thing about that was, if I was going to be Snake [Plissken] in that, I’m going to have to produce the movie. The only thing Snake’s gonna do is walk in, look at ’em… and leave.
A badass idea way too far ahead of its time, that’s for sure. Sigh. If only.
