Bioaktuella Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 innehåller som vi alla vet karaktären Ego the Living Planet som spelas av Kurt Russell och när regissören James Gunn skulle presentera idén för Kevin Feige, Marvel Studios storhövding, valde han att vänta till han var säker på att den första rullen hade dragit in tillräckligt mycket pengar för att Feige inte skulle kunna sätta sig på tvären. Såhär säger han till Cinemablend:
"You're the first person I'm telling this. I knew who Ego was as a character, I knew what he was able to do, but I didn't initially know I was going to use Ego The Living Planet as that character - if that makes sense. But it was pretty early that I knew it was Ego, but I didn't share that with Kevin Feige until after Guardians 1 made so much money [laughs]. And that's when I came in and said the dad is going to be a living planet!... It was an outlandish idea. I thought that they would balk at the idea of making Ego The Living Planet his parent." Källa.
