


Gunn’s conceit was that the tunes were playing on an ancient Walkman toted around by Chris Pratt’s character, who owns just one cassette, given to him by his mom just before her death: the homemade “Awesome Mix Vol. “Nobody,” he recalls them saying, “is going to want to hear this music.” Gunn had laced the movie with eight-track-era gems – Redbone’s “Come and Get Your Love,” Blue Swede’s “Hooked on a Feeling” – but skeptics were sure that, say, Nineties Britney would be more commercial.

While director James Gunn was finishing 2014’s smash Guardians of the Galaxy, he kept getting one note from a few Marvel Studios employees.
