James Gunn Always Knew How ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ Would End

Gamora was going to die initially in “Vol. 2” [2017], after which we talked about it occurring in “Infinity War” and that labored higher for the story. But the remainder of them, I all the time knew the place they had been going. I knew that the entire trilogy is about Rocket, who we consider as a supporting character, turning into the captain of the Guardians.

The arc with Peter Quill, in some methods, you possibly can take a look at as that of many individuals who’ve skilled childhood trauma. He was by his mom’s bedside when she died, and he ran away and went into outer house — which, for different individuals, may very well be shutting off from the world — and stayed there for a very long time till he got here to the belief as an grownup that he wanted to return to Earth. That, for me, was all the time his journey.

Nebula turns into a pacesetter, however a special kind of chief from the place she was. Mantis goes off on her personal and takes care of herself as a result of she lived by others’ guidelines her whole life. Drax realizes that he’s a father and that’s what he’s actually good at — he’s not a destroyer. All these issues, some extra clearly than others, had been in my thoughts from the primary film.

Few Marvel sequence had been as affected by the occasions of “Infinity War” and “Endgame” as “Guardians of the Galaxy.” How did you’re feeling about having a whole lot of main plot factors occur exterior the movies of your personal trilogy?

Quite a bit? I feel there was just one.

Well, Gamora’s loss of life is the massive one, however even her first kiss with Quill is available in “Infinity War” after the primary two “Guardians” motion pictures look like constructing to it.

I begged them to have that kiss within the film, as a result of it was mandatory to essentially cement their relationship. I had a kiss in “Vol. 2” that I minimize — it was superior, nevertheless it got here in a bizarre time. At the top of “Vol. 2,” you determine the truth that they’ve emotions for one another fairly distinctly, however in “Infinity War,” we would have liked to determine that they had been now boyfriend-girlfriend and this was a traditional factor for them. It wasn’t actually in regards to the kiss, it was about exhibiting that they had been now a pair.