{"id":141877,"date":"2022-11-28T13:22:59","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-gunn-on-how-baby-groot-became-swoll-groot-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T13:22:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T13:22:59","slug":"james-gunn-on-how-baby-groot-became-swoll-groot-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/james-gunn-on-how-baby-groot-became-swoll-groot-2\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn on How Baby Groot Became ‘Swoll Groot’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since the sacrifice of the original Groot in the first \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy,\u201d Marvel fans have seen the new Groot grow over the past eight years. Now, in the \u201cThe Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special\u201d on Disney+, Baby Groot is all grown up, and writer-director \u2014 and new DC Studios chief \u2013 James Gunn took to Twitter recently to talk about that transformation.<\/p>\n

Gunn said he wanted to set the current Groot apart now that he is the same size as his \u201cfather\u201d was in the 2014 original. While the first Groot was a quiet foil to his brash companion Rocket when he wasn’t fighting, the current Groot was shown as a precocious child in \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2\u201d and the recent \u201cI Am Groot\u201d Disney+ shorts and was a surly teenager in \u201cAvengers: Infinity War.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYA Groot, or Swoll Groot, as we call him, is getting bigger, outward as well as upward. As you can see by now he has a different, stockier physiology (and a more outgoing personality) than his father did, \u201d Gunn tweeted.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Gunn also credited the VFX teams at Framestore and Weta Digital for bringing the new Groot to life in the holiday special, combining the bulk and strength of the fully grown tree alien with the smooth face that \u201cSwoll Groot\u201d had in his younger years. <\/p>\n

Serving as both a Christmas special and a prologue of sorts to \u201cGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3,\u201d which comes out in May, \u201cThe Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special\u201d sees Groot and the other Guardians try to throw a Christmas party to cheer up Peter Quill, who is still mourning the loss of Gamora after \u201cAvengers: Infinity War \u201d Though they have no idea how the Earth holiday works, the Guardians decide to give Quill the best gift they can think of: the legendary hero Kevin Bacon. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special\u201d is now streaming on Disney+.<\/p>\n

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