James Gunn Confirms GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Will Tell Rocket's Story Fully

With production completed on The Suicide Squad and the Peacemaker spinoff series, director James Gunn is preparing to start work on Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. A lot of Marvel fans have been looking forward to this sequel and have been curious about the story that it’s going to tell with these characters.

In a recent interview with CB, Gunn explains that this next Guardians movie is going to be “gigantic” saying, "Listen, Guardians movies are just different. It's just using a different part of my brain in some ways. I mean, Guardians movies are more geometric. This Guardians, in particular, is just gigantic, so I'm just finishing the story that I feel like I need to finish."

So what is this story going to tell? Well, Gunn previously shared that Rocket Raccoon is going to be a big part of what’s happening. It turns out that the film is going to put a focus on Rocket as the filmmaker recently confirmed that he’s “telling Rocket's story fully, which I need to tell. These are all needs. I don't think I'm reeling anything in. I'm telling that story as fully as it should be told in the way it should be told."

I’m so happy that Gunn is finally going to dive into the story arc of Rocket. He’s such a great and loveable character, but there’s a heavy and tragic backstory to him. Gunn teased the emotional aspect of the film during an interview with EW, saying, "It's pretty heavy actually. It's a heavier story, so it's an emotional process to go through."

Gunn went on to talk about rating and if he thinks that Guardians of the Galaxy would work as an R-rated film, saying, "There's not a part of me that goes, 'Oh, I wish I could do an R-rated Guardians movie.' It's not native to the source. It seems like the Guardians should be PG-13 films, whereas Suicide Squad seems like it should be an R-rated film, so it's just different things."

All I know is that James Gunn knows what he’s doing with these characters. He made two fantastic Guardians movies and I can’t wait to see this final chapter in the story.