{"id":139891,"date":"2022-11-26T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T12:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-gunn-on-connection-to-vol-3-deadline\/"},"modified":"2022-11-26T12:09:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-26T12:09:05","slug":"james-gunn-on-connection-to-vol-3-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-gunn-on-connection-to-vol-3-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn On Connection To ‘Vol. 3’ \u2013 Deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n\tWarning: The following article contains MAJOR spoilers from Marvel Studios<\/em>‘ Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special<\/strong>, which dropped today on Disney+.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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\tJames Gunn’s The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special <\/em>has finally arrived; the one-off a concept he originally developed for ABC in the wake of <\/em>the release of 2017’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\tHowever, timing is everything, and the special arrives at a quintessential moment as Gunn is wrapping up the $1.6 billion global grossing Marvel franchise with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 <\/em>in theaters May 5, 2023. <\/em> <\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI used the holiday special as an opportunity to introduce some elements into Guardians of the Galaxy, <\/em>so I didn’t have to explain them at the beginning of Volume 3<\/em>,\u201d Gunn tells Deadline. \u201cIt was a trojan horse.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cI don’t have to talk about where they got [the new Guardians <\/em>HQ] Nowhere from, or Cosmo being around Nowhere,\u201d explains Gunn, who folded the threequel’s new sets into the special \u2014 ie, Nowhere and the new spaceship, The Bowie. \u201cI think you see what Nebula’s role is in the group now: she She’s a leader to some degree.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cWe see all these changes since we’ve seen them last,\u201d adds the filmmaker.<\/p>\n

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\tThe mega reveal here in the Holiday special: We learn that Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill and Pom Klementieff’s Mantis are brother and sister, fathered by Kurt Russell’s Ego. <\/p>\n

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\tThe holiday special was shot simultaneously with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 <\/em>in Atlanta, \u201cwhich is an insane experience because Vol. 3<\/em> is a serious movie, it deals with these characters’ emotional lives,\u201d Gunn says.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201c[Vol. 3<\/em>] has a lot of heaviness in it,\u201d adds the filmmaker. \u201cSo shooting that for a few days, and then shooting this goofy thing \u2014 these were like my recess days.<\/p>\n

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\t\u201cWhen you see Guardians 3, <\/em>you’ll see, yes, there’s a bad guy, but it’s not about that,\u201d he continues.<\/p>\n

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\tBack at San Diego Comic-Con last summer, where the Vol. 3<\/em> trailer was dropped, the new guardians <\/em>villain made a cameo in Hall H in full costume, that being the High Evolutionary played by Chukwudi Iwuji who stars on Gunn’s HBO Max DC show peacemaker<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\tThe High Evolutionary Warned Hall H, who he called \u201cscum\u201d: \u201cThank you for inspiring me, for how vomitous you all are\u2026I can’t wait to dissect all of you and see what I can learn.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tAdds Gunn about Vol. 3, <\/em>\u201cIt’s about this family of rejects who have found each other, and have come to love each other, and together with the support of each other, maybe come to accept who they are because they all hate themselves, and that’s really what this journey is about.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\tGunn conceived the Holiday Special<\/em> out of his love for the 1970s cult Star Wars Holiday Special<\/em>, pitching it to Marvel Studios Boss Kevin Feige, who remained a fan of it. Kevin Bacon playing himself provided plenty of mojo to the new special, with the footloose <\/em>actor being kidnapped by Mantis and Dave Bautista’s Drax. Bacon was an idol of Quill’s, telling Zoe Salanda’s Gamora back in <\/em>the original movie that the actor was a hero, who saved a town that couldn’t dance. Gunn also tapped his favorite band, the alt-country 1990s group Old 97’s, to perform the song he co-wrote with their lead singer Rhett Miller, \u201cI Don’t Know What Christmas Time is, but Christmas Time is Here.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\tWe previously reported on Gunn talking about his departure from Marvel as he heads to Warner Bros.’ DC Studios as the label’s co-head with Peter Safran. The duo are unveiling their map for the DC universe early next year. <\/p>\n

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\tIn regards to who Marvel will leave <\/em>the guardians <\/em>franchise to, Gunn commented last week, \u201cIt’s not ever going to be the same group of characters for a lot of different reasons. Who knows what will happen with the guardians <\/em>franchise in regards to future characters, but in terms of this group of characters, this is the end of their story.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n