Today in a lengthy
Facebook post, writer-director-producer James Gunn not only confirm plans for a
third installment in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, but also his
return to it.
"Well,
this week we start the U.S. press junket, before traveling to Europe at the end
of the week," he said before adding that he knows what question he will be
getting the most - Will there be a Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and will he
be directing it? Well the answer is yes, and yes.
"Before I was
able to honestly answer this, I needed to know it was, in my heart, what I
truly felt called to do. There is a history in Hollywood of haphazard endings
to trilogies, and I didn’t want to become a part of that dishonorable tradition
of pretending the third one doesn’t exist. I couldn’t do it for the money, and
I couldn’t do it because it was what other people wanted me to do. I needed to
do it because it was what I needed to do. I have never made choices in my
career based on anything other than passion and love for the stories and
characters, and I didn’t want to start now.
So,
after many months of ruminations and discussions, I know the answer. I could
save this answer for the first, random interviewer to ask me during the press
junket but instead I thought I’d share it with the most important people in the
Guardiansverse – you, the fans, who have been so incredibly supportive and
enthusiastic over the past five years, it has moved me to tears on a regular
basis.
So,
yes, I’m returning to write and direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
In
the end, my love for Rocket, Groot, Gamora, Star-Lord, Yondu, Mantis, Drax, and
Nebula – and some of the other forthcoming heroes – goes deeper than you guys
can possibly imagine, and I feel they have more adventures to go on and things
to learn about themselves and the wonderful and sometimes terrifying universe
we all inhabit. And, like in both Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, we will work on creating
the story that goes beyond what you expect.
My
partnership with the folks at Marvel Studios – Kevin Feige, Lou D’Esposito,
Victoria Alonso, and Jonathan Schwartz – has been the best of my professional
career, and is a huge contributing factor to my decision – as is my
relationship to the guys at Disney Studios – Bob Iger, Alan Horn, and Alan
Bergman – who have been cheerleading innovation and the pure love of movies
from the start. This is the kind of thing you’d expect a director to say about
the people who have just hired him, but people who know me know I would never
put up working with people I don’t like for a single movie, much less two, and
much, much less three. I love them all and appreciate immensely their
collaboration. I wake up every day pinching myself that they’d allow this punk
rock kid from Missouri to help create this wonderful universe, and to not only
allow but encourage creative freedom while doing so.
I
can’t fricking wait to get started."
Gunn also provided a
little, but all-important detail for the movie, its place within the Marvel
Cinematic Universe chronology.
"Much
of what’s happened in the MCU for the past ten or so years has been leading, in
a big way, to the Avengers’ Infinity War. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will
happen after all that. It will conclude the story of this iteration of the
Guardians of the Galaxy, and help catapult both old and new Marvel characters
into the next ten years and beyond. I will be working side-by-side with Kevin
Feige and the gang to help design where these stories go, and make sure the
future of the Marvel Cosmic Universe is as special and authentic and magical as
what we have created so far."!
Marvel
has yet to officially announce a third volume in the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise,
but Gunn would not announce it if wasn't at very least already being planned.
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