James Gunnis a very busy man. Fresh off the release of his filmThe Suicide Squad, Gunn has announced via social media thatGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3has officially started shooting!
The tweet features a picture of Gunn, who is both the writer and director ofGOTG 3, posing withChris Pratt,Zoe Saldaña,Dave Bautista,Karen Gillan,Pom Klementieff, andSean Gunn, who have all appeared in previous installments in the series, as well asWill Poulter, who was recentlyannounced to be in the film. The picture also featuresChukwudi Iwuji, who will appear in Gunn’s upcomingPeacemakershow, but his connection toGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3is not yet known.
In the tweet, Gunn says:
“It’s been a strange & long & at times challenging journey to get here, but the obstacles along the way have only made this moment more blissful. Back on set with my Guardians family for the first day of shooting#gotgvol3”
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As Gunn says, it has been a long road towards this film getting made.Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3wasfirst announcedall the way back in April 2017, beforeGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2had even come out. Gunn later, in January 2018, announced that the film would bereleased in 2020. However, production hit some trouble when Gunn waspublicly firedin July later that same year following the surfacing of some old tweets by Gunn. The film then finally got back on track whenGunn was rehiredless than a year later in March 2019. Plot details on the thirdGuardiansmovie are scarce, but we do know that Poulter is playing Adam Warlock, whose arrival was teased at the end ofGOTG Vol. 2in a post-credit scene featuringElizabeth Debicki’s Ayesha.
Along withGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Gunn is also working with Marvel to write and direct theGuardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special,which will be coming to Disney+ in December 2022, and will serve as an executive producer onI Am Groot, a Disney+ show about theGuardianscharacter.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which also stars the voices ofVin DieselandBradley Cooper, is set to hit theaters on August 21, 2025. Check out Gunn’s full tweet below.
