The Original GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL. 3 Storyline Was a ROCKET AND GROOT Movie
Director James Gunn has made it clear that this final installment, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, will wrap up the storyline for our favorite ragtag Guardians gang, and it’s bound to make us shed a tear in the process. The story revolves around Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper), and it tells his origin story, as well as the final chapter in the current timeline with his friends.
But as it turns out, Gunn’s plans for the GOTG franchise always had Rocket at its center, and the story that takes place in this film was originally thought out to be a Rocket and Groot (Vin Diesel) standalone film.
Gunn talked to io9 Gunn talked to io9 about the franchise in Los Angeles this week, saying:
“My pathway into the Guardians initially was Marvel talked to me about perhaps doing Guardians of the Galaxy. They actually had some art already done with Rocket in it. And I thought, ‘Boy, this can be goofy. This could be like Bugs Bunny in the middle of The Avengers.’ I’m like, ‘How can I not make it goofy?’
“And I thought about, ‘Well, okay, if there was a talking space raccoon, how would he have come to exist?’ And as I mused upon it, I started thinking about how this was the saddest creature in the universe, and that was actually the seed to me for the entire Guardians trilogy. That was my way into it, this underpinning of just isolation and sadness, and all of these characters are isolated and sad. So I knew what Rocket’s backstory was from that moment before I had come up with the rest of that stuff for Vol. 1. It was the first thing I came up with.”
Gunn went on to talk about why he held back the story until this third film:
“I always thought it was a third movie thing because I thought we had to tell Peter Quill’s story first and then get into Rocket’s story. I think the only question was, was it going to be a Rocket and Groot movie or was it going to be Guardians 2—because initially, I was going to do it as Rocket and Groot.”
Things ended up working out just the way they were supposed to, as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is getting some of the best reviews in Marvel history! The film hits theatres this Friday! Do you have your tickets yet?