James Gunn Answers Guardians Holiday Special and Future DC Questions - Gizmodo

It’s fitting that James Gunn conscionable released a vacation peculiar due to the fact that he’s presently the agleam prima astatine the halfway of the superhero movie world. Not lone did Gunn conscionable merchandise The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special up of adjacent year’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but he’s besides the caller co-head of DC Films, presently moving retired how to compete with Marvel crossed each media.

If those types of things involvement you—and if you’re speechmaking this, they astir apt do—Gunn’s Twitter is simply a must-follow. He’s 1 of a very, precise tiny fistful of almighty geek creatives who inactive actively engages connected the platform, and this past play Gunn was successful afloat force, answering fans’ burning questions astir the Guardians and adjacent teasing immoderate larger generalizations astir the aboriginal of DC.

Starting with Guardians, Gunn did his champion to wide up 1 of the bigger questions surrounding the special, which is erstwhile and however did the Guardians of the Galaxy bargain Knowhere, the immense celestial skull wherever the Collector resided successful the archetypal film. “Although the Guardians are sometimes heroes, they enactment arsenic mercenaries & it brings successful a just magnitude of money,” Gunn tweeted. “So aft Thanos attacked Knowhere they bought it from the Collector. It was a burnt retired husk & they’ve been rebuilding it.” On Knowhere, we spot the Guardians are present friends with Cosmo, the canine concisely seen successful the Collector’s postulation successful the archetypal Guardians. Gunn confirmed Cosmo hadn’t left, and met the Guardians connected the planet.

In presumption of timelines betwixt the Holiday Special and the Guardians’ past quality in Thor: Love and Thunder, Gunn was a small little clear. “I’m not definite however it works retired successful the timeline (these things aren’t discussed) but successful my caput they were lone with Thor a fewer weeks,” he said. He was wide though connected wherefore Peter Quill is little OK going backmost to Earth than helium is different places. “Because erstwhile we’re 8 years aged we process trauma much, overmuch otherwise than we bash erstwhile we’re 38,” Gunn tweeted. 

There besides seemed to beryllium many, galore questions astir the caller Groot, which Gunn has lovingly dubbed “Swole Groot.” In his mind, this is not the aforesaid Groot we saw successful the archetypal movie who lovingly sacrificed himself for his team. And with a caller beingness and experiences, that explains wherefore his assemblage has developed differently. “I deliberation it’s explicit successful the movies,” Gunn tweeted. “As Baby Groot was explicitly a babe without the cognition of OG Groot. But present that Groot’s assemblage is processing otherwise it’s much obvious.”

Answering questions astir the practicality of the special, Gunn confirmed what was, and wasn’t real, successful presumption of shooting locations. “Knowhere was mostly applicable with immoderate extensions & the spaceship (& Hollywood Blvd) were each practical,” he said.

Just a bevy of Marvel information. Since it’s overmuch newer successful Gunn’s career, his openness astir the aboriginal of DC Film was surely little specific, but nary little exciting. “The DCU volition beryllium connected crossed movie and TV (and animation),” Gunn said, benignant of wrapping up a slew of tweets wherever helium said determination would beryllium 2D and 3D animation, that immoderate of the animations would necktie into the satellite of the movies and TV (while others won’t), future video games volition necktie into the larger DC Universe, helium expects to constitute and nonstop immoderate DC projects successful the future, and portion determination is connection betwixt movie and comics, helium is lone progressive with the films.

Finally, portion Gunn is honorable that he’s lone been astatine DC a fewer weeks and plans are successful place, helium expects at slightest immoderate news to beryllium retired astir his and co-chair Peter Safran’s plans good earlier adjacent year’s San Diego Comic-Con. But successful the meantime, he’s got to decorativeness and beforehand Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which volition necktie up not conscionable the communicative of the Guardians, but Gunn’s astatine Marvel too.

What’s the main takeaway here? Well, travel James Gunn connected Twitter for one. And two, everyone delight support being bully to him truthful helium doesn’t leave. Because it’s unthinkable to person idiosyncratic with specified power beryllium truthful accessible.

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