Director and writer James Gunn has confirmed they'll definitely be a third film but he's currently undecided about what role he'll play in the production.
I suppose he's Waiting for opening Weekend numbers before he negotiates a deal on Vol. 3.
Vol.2 is gonna bust a lotta blocks, the first film has gathered a HUGE fan base since release & that did well enough in its own merits.
Plus everyone wants to see baby groot
Well, this week we start the U.S. press junket, before traveling to Europe at the end of the week. Of course I know some of the questions that come up a lot – “Wasn’t there a lot more pressure dealing with the sequel of a beloved film?” (No, there was less, because this time I knew there was an audience waiting to see it!) and, “What was it like working with
Kurt Russell and Sylvester Stallone?” (Daunting and at times overwhelming – I ran around in my backyard as a kid pretending to be Snake Plissken and John Rambo, so these guys are true icons to me.)
But the question that comes up perhaps the most is, “What’s the deal with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and are you going to direct?”
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.
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.
I promise you, the fans, I’ll do it all with integrity and love and respect for the characters.
Should Marvel move ahead with Vol4, it will feature
a different team of A-holes
James Gunn:
"I think the first three movies tell a single story and that story is pretty simple. I think that there could be a Guardians Vol. 4, but it would not be the same. It would not be the same group… basically the story of this group ends with Vol. 3."
1 was a great flick. Plenty of laughs and didn't try to be something it wasn't. 2 was very forced in nature and had me checking the run time to see when it would end. Here's hoping 3 is better then them both (I don't have high hopes though).
I really hope the next one is an improvement. Loved the first, but for the second one it needed to up the stakes, and maybe rein in the puerility just a tad. Instead Gunn doubled-down and made it stupider (and the comedy weaker) than ever. Pushed its luck with me I'm afraid. I haven't repeat watched part 2 anywhere near as much as the first.
It’s funny how subjective humour is, I found James Gunn’s puerility in vol 2 highly amusing but Rian Johnson’s slapstick in that other space opera barely got a guffaw out of me.
Whilst I was one of the minority that was underwhelmed by the first GotG, I thought volume 2 was superb fun and watched it twice in LieMAX 3D; hopefully there’s an HDR equipped Laser IMAX / Dolby Cinema in my neck of the woods by 2020 so I can further enjoy all those vibrant colourscapes
Thor Ragnarok hit the spot for me humour-wise. Comic timing was better than G2, it was much wittier, and it didn't compromise the action adventure aspect. I just found Gunn's humour to be too 'lowest common denominator' this time and too repetitive of what we got the previous outing. But yes, definitely all subjective.
Thor Ragnarok hit the spot for me humour-wise. Comic timing was better than G2, it was much wittier, and it didn't compromise the action adventure aspect. I just found Gunn's humour to be too 'lowest common denominator' this time and too repetitive of what we got the previous outing. But yes, definitely all subjective.
Despite being a fan of Waititi’s Kiwi comedies, the humour in Thor Ragnarok didn’t really hit the spot for me; although he didn’t write the screenplay for Ragnarok, which might explain why.