James Gunn Updates Guardians of the Galaxy 3: Nova, More

Our good buddy James Gunn offers an update on Guardians of the Galaxy 3 on social media.

James Gunn fielded fan questions and posted a pic of himself offering, “Writing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 right now.”

Find the details below.

A fan asked about the new soundtrack, which saw Gunn reply: “Mostly. But I’ve also changed it a lot, so who knows!”

Another also mentioned about hoping he adds Nova, which saw the director reply: “I can add anyone Marvel owns. But I’ve already chosen the characters…” The fan then remarked he hopes Gunn chose Nova.

Gunn also responds to a question about listening to criticism, with specific mention of too many jokes and Drax being too comedic. Gunn says: “I always listen to criticism. But, for the record, that’s not the general view. In actual surveys Drax became the most popular of all the Guardians in Vol. 2. He was not that in Vol. 1. So MOST people actually liked him much much more.”

A fan questioned Gunn about if there is any red tape he needs to go through for his scripts, with Gunn replying: “I go through zero red tape. I get constructive criticism from Marvel about how to make the script/movie better which is almost always extremely helpful. But I’m never told I HAVE to do that. And the overall Marvel plan almost never comes up.”

James Gunn also offers he has been writing Guardians of the Galaxy 3 for a year: “I’m more than a year into the process, so the script is far along. For many many months I first write the treatment which is 80 pages or so with photographs. That turns into GotG – I’m now rewriting and making sure my rough draft works.”

A fan posted fan art of Baby Groot becoming Venom (picture above), which saw Gunn shoot down the use of the character as Sony owns the rights: “We don’t own Venom .”

A fan also asked for more Knight Rider references, which saw Gunn say: “I think we already made the legal limit..”

As Disney is supposed to be purchasing Fox Studios, which means the X-Men, Deadpool, Wolverine and Fantastic Four characters could return to Marvel (Gunn has gone on record stating he is interested in the Silver Surfer and Annihilus), could the deal impact Guardians of the Galaxy 3? “Not gonna happen in any major way. Too far along,” Gunn says.

Chris Pratt also recently teased Avengers 4 and said he is set to start filming Guardians of the Galaxy 3 in January 2019 and teased his character’s return with: “You’ll know once you see [Avengers] part 2. I’m slated to film Guardians of the Galaxy 3 in January, so we don’t know yet time-wise where that lines up. I’m hoping it’s not the last you see of me but I can’t be sure.”

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 is also thought to have a 2020 release date.