James Gunn Reveals Story Elements for GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 2
Even though we got to see some awesome, action-packed, funny footage from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 at San Diego Comic-Con that involved Groot helping Rocket and Yondu escape from a ravager jail cell, we still don’t really know what exactly the film is about. However, during one of Vin Diesel’s live video sessions on Facebook with James Gunn, the director revealed some interesting story elements that will play a major part in driving the story forward. It deals with the female characters in the film.
They talk about all this stuff after Diesel gushed about how incredible the footage he just watched was. This is what Gunn had to say:
"I really feel like we give the female characters a chance to shine in this movie because Zoe Saldana comes in and she is so wonderfully beautiful as her character. It's touching, and Karen Gillan as Nebula comes in, and she's her sister, and she's completely a much deeper character than we got in the first movie, so we get to know her."
Diesel broke in and added:
“That character, the sisterhood that you explore in this movie is something we haven't seen in film. We definitely haven't seen it in this level of film."
Gunn continued:
"And that's one of the things that this movie is about... the first movie was really about becoming a family. This movie is about being a family. And what's harder, becoming a family or being a family? I think it's being a family. That's where you really haven't to deal with each other. And that's what this movie is about. And their sisters. They are family, whether they like it or not. And they also want to kill each other, so it adds a new twist to being a sister."
This isn’t the first time we’ve heard about the family element being a major focus, but it was never explained like this before. It also sounds like Gamora and Nubula are going to be a focus, which is great! I loved these characters, and I was really hoping their relationship would be explored more. I’m happy Gunn is doing that.