The Stan Lee cameo has long been a staple of Marvel Cinematic Universe movies, simply back in September 2016 we learned that Lee actually bagged multiple cameos in 1 shoot solar day. Indeed, the Marvel Comics veteran flew down to Atlanta while James Gunn was shooting Guardians of the Milky way Vol. ii and not simply filmed his cameo for that movie, simply also for Doctor Strange and two other films—likely Spider-Man: Homecoming and Thor: Ragnarok . Lee isn't a super young fella, so it makes sense for him to shoot a few cameos at once instead of having to fly back to Atlanta every few months or so.

But at present Gunn has revealed that the Stan Lee cameo nosotros saw in Doctor Strange was just one of many different takes they shot. In the movie nosotros meet now, every bit Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) and Kaecilius (Mads Mikkelsen) are fighting, they smash into a charabanc where Lee is reading The Doors of Perception . But per Gunn, they shot at least three alternate takes:

- Stan reading a book and leaning into the guy next to him, saying, "Practice you know what excelsior ways?"- Stan throwing his head back and laughing as hard as he can, yelling, "I'k laughing for no reason! I'm totally crazy!"- And, my favorite, Stan laughing hysterically at a Garfield volume, hooting, "He HATES Mondays just he LOVES lasagna!" Supposedly that one was in the movie for a while, just it ended up existence too long for the scene.

Gunn says he was actually shooting a stunt sequence with Zoe Saldana at the same time, and so while Lee was changing costumes (say, from his Doctor Strange cameo to his Guardians two cameo), Gunn would exist focusing on the Saldana shoot. Information technology's a pretty hefty bit of multitasking that's only a taste of what it's like to direct a massive blockbuster movie.

As for these alternate takes, while I'm not a huge fan of the "Stan Lee cameo" fleck I'll admit that Garfield one sounds pretty funny. What exercise you think folks/ Which one'southward your favorite?

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