‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special‘: James Gunn On How Disney+ Show Bridges Franchise To Upcoming ‘Vol. 3’
deadline.comWarning: The following article contains MAJOR spoilers from Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, which dropped today on Disney+. James Gunn’s The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special has finally arrived; the one-off a concept he originally developed for ABC in the wake ofthe release of 2017’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
2. However, timing is everything, and the special arrives at a quintessential moment as Gunn is wrapping up the $1.6 billion global grossing Marvel franchise with The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
3 in theaters May 5, 2023. “I used the holiday special as an opportunity to introduce some elements into the Guardians of the Galaxy, so I didn’t have to explain them at the beginning of Volume 3,” Gunn tells Deadline, “It was a trojan horse.” “I don’t have to talk about where they got (the new Guardians HQ) Nowhere from, or Cosmo being around Nowhere,” explains Gunn who folded the threequel’s new sets into the special, i.e.
Nowhere and the new spaceship, The Bowie, “I think you see what Nebula’s role is in the group now: She’s a leader to some degree.” “We see all these changes since we’ve seen them last,” says the filmmaker.
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