Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is less than a year away after what has felt like an eternity of waiting for Marvel fans.
The Guardians have already been back on our screens this year in Thor: Love and Thunder, and they'll also pop up on Disney+ in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special in December 2022.
James Gunn has confirmed that the Holiday Special is set before the third movie and will fill in some timeline gaps: "Although the Holiday Special is a standalone story, it contains a lot of fun new facts about what the Guardians have been up to for all these years."
While it hasn't made its way online, a trailer for the third movie was debuted at Comic-Con to those lucky few in attendance, along with some exciting character confirmations for the new outing.
As we wait to be able to see the trailer, here's everything you need to know about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3.
We'll see Chris Pratt return as Star-Lord, Dave Bautista as Drax, Karen Gillan as Nebula, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Vin Diesel as Groot and Pom Klementieff as Mantis. After the events of Avengers: Endgame, we'll also be seeing Zoe Saldaña as Gamora again.
Saldaña has said she'd want to "explore a bad Gamora" in the third Guardians movie, which in the trailer footage seems less like a villainous arc and more of an unempathetic one. She has also been teasing the threequel's story, and it sounds like we'll need tissues.
"There's a lot of melancholy here, but also pride that we've achieved something great. James Gunn has written a beautiful story, that's making us emotional even as we shoot it," she noted.
The trailer confirmed that the 'new' Gamora has joined the Ravagers since the last time we saw her.
Sean Gunn is back as Kraglin, Yondu's one-time Ravager pal, and Elizabeth Debicki could also return as Ayesha, with the star up for a return.
"I would love [to], even if I just sort of scooch on for a second. I mean, I would love to come back," she said. In the second movie, she was seen with Adam Warlock (more on him shortly), but doesn't seem to have returned for this movie.
Sylvester Stallone's Stakar is back as well, so that could signal a return for his fellow Ravagers: Aleta Ogord (Michelle Yeoh), Charlie-27 (Ving Rhames), Mainframe (voiced by Miley Cyrus) and Martinex (Michael Rosenbaum) in the MCU's future.
New to the cast are Will Poulter as Adam Warlock, making his official debut after being teased in one of Guardians Vol 2's credits scenes, Peacemaker star Chukwudi Iwuji as the High Evolutionary, while Daniela Melchior and Nico Santos both in undisclosed roles.
The surprise addition to the cast was Borat 2 star Maria Bakalova as Cosmo the Space Dog, who was previously spotted in the Collector's museum in the fi
One person we definitely won't be seeing (unless it's in flashbacks) is Michael Rooker as Yondu, who sacrificed himself to save Star-Lord in the second movie.
"As I've said before, Yondu is dead and will stay dead as long as I'm involved with the Guardians," Gunn tweeted. "His death means something to people and I'm not about to diminish that."
It was finally confirmed by Marvel that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 will be released on May 5, 2023, so you can now officially start your countdown.
As mentioned above, in December 2022 we'll get a Holiday Special on Disney+ which will introduce "one of the greatest MCU characters of all time".
It was filmed at the same time as the third movie and is set between Thor: Love and Thunder and Guardians 3.
WATCH GUARDIANS 1 AND 2 ON DISNEY+
The threequel has actually already set a new world record with its filming as it surpassed The Grinch for "the most makeup appliances created for a single production". Impressive.
Sorry to say, but the first Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 trailer that was debuted at Comic-Con in July 2022 has yet to make its way online as of September 2022.
Considering that Marvel still hasn't released the trailer for Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (which is out before Guardians 3), it's not a surprise that we've been left waiting.
Marvel typically releases the first trailer for their movies four months ahead of release, so we might be waiting until January 2023. We hope we're wrong though.
Specific plot details for the third movie are under wraps for now, but Gunn has promised that it'll serve as the "epic conclusion" to the story he began in 2014's
The film is set to bring an end to this current version of the team on screen, an energy that was certainly palpable in the footage teased at Comic-Con. Could it be Chris Pratt's final outing as Star-Lord? He's not yet ruling out an MCU return.
Thor: Love and Thunder did provide us with a bit of an idea as to what the Guardians will be up to next.
The Guardians, along with Thor, decided to respond to distress calls across the universe thanks to Gorr the God Butcher... butchering gods. Star-Lord suggests the team split up so they can best traverse the galaxy and help people.
They depart Thor: Love and Thunder presumably to go do that very thing.
We imagine that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 will introduce this plot point as a quick prologue to the actual story of the third movie, confirmed in the trailer to be the search for and ultimate reunion with Gamora, as she disappeared after the big battle with Thanos.
The trailer also confirmed we'll see more of Rocket, which makes sense given Gunn said if he hadn't gotten to do the third movie, he would have been most disappointed at not finishing Rocket's arc. (We may get his full backstory, but that's to be seen.)
As for the other returning cast, it does seem like it's their final curtain call, with Bautista ruling out a future movie as Drax. "I mean, as far as my obligations, I've got Guardians 3, and that's probably going to be the end of Drax," he told Digital Spy.
Gunn has been teasing the third movie's "pretty heavy" story, adding: "It's a heavier story, so it's an emotional process to go through." Pratt described it as a masterpiece.
It's something that Karen Gillan backed up as she said that when she read the script with Pom Klementieff, there were "full tears". "It's brilliant and it's emotional and it's funny and it's all of those things that you want," she enthused.
Let's hope the tears aren't because some of our favourite Guardians are about to die...
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is set for release on May 5, 2023. You can watch
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