Guardians Of The Galaxy

Good news for fans of the Marvel Comics’ Mantis as it looks as if the character will retain her classic look in the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 movie.

James Gunn shared a storyboard featuring Mantis where her antennae can be seen.

Update: Gunn offered the following on Facebook, which may hint the character look may be different (or not):

It’s already ‪#‎WhatWeShotWednesday‬. We’ve had an amazing week on‪#‎GotGVol2‬ – in fact I’d say the past two weeks may have been some of the most fruitful of my life. @pomin8r and Kurt Russell have been bringing it hard, and our DP Henry Braham has been killing it as well. It’s wonderful having a great cast and crew, all one hundred percent committed to the cause. Today we shot this little piece. A certain new character may be somewhat obvious, the others not quite so much (and, I should add, please don’t mistake my storyboard character shorthand for actual character design – another character in the film is presented throughout with a stovetop hat just so I know who he is!) 

In the popular Abnett and Lanning Guardians of the Galaxy comics that inspired the movie, Mantis has telepathic and precognitive abilities. Star-Lord also used Mantis psy skills to form the team.

Pom Klementieff is playing Mantis in the film.

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” has a May 5, 2017 release starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn. New cast members include Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan and Kurt Russell.

While filming Guardians of the Galaxy 2 in Atlanta, director James Gunn was presented with a gift in the form of a deleted scene image involving Groot from the first movie.

Dave Bautista as Drax is also featured in the scene.

Gunn offered on Facebook:

Groot’s Last Supper. This was a shot from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1 that got cut from the movie and was never finished. The great artists over at Framestore finished a frame and just gave it to me as a gift. Thanks, guys! — with Dave Bautista (Batista).

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James Gunn posted a new behind-the-scenes image from Guardians of the Galaxy 2 offering insights as to how the movie-making process gets done.

The pic features script supervisor Marty Kitrosser who is responsible for all the continuity from scene to scene.

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” has a May 5, 2017 release starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn. New cast members include Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan and Kurt Russell.

Behind the scenes on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. There are a lot of folks who are as responsible for the outcome of a film as the actors or department heads. Here I am with Marty Kitrosser, our script supervisor. The script supervisor – or ‘scriptie’ – is an important role on a film. They make sure continuity matches throughout the film – if your lead actress’s hair is sticking up in the first shot, it’s up to them to remind us to have it sticking up in the second. Sounds simple, right? No. There are hundreds of elements in every scene they need to keep an eye on. They’re also responsible for giving notes to the editor (I tell Marty which takes I want to use and which ones I don’t) and for keeping track of what screen direction actors should be looking. Also important is that, as a director, a script supervisor is by your side for the entire movie. So you have to make sure you won’t want to kill him or her by the end.

Marty is an awesome dude and fun to hang with, so that works out for me. He’s had a long career, script supervised all of Tarantino’s films, script supervised the first Friday the 13th and wrote Friday the 13th Part III. As someone who loves the behind-the-scenes history of film, I’m constantly grilling him on his experiences.

Oh yeah – and Happy Leap Year.

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Following Karen Gillan teasing Nebula, now director James Gunn has teased Star-Lord and the Ravagers for Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

Gunn posted the following image on Facebook which is the insigina/logo of the space pirate group, the Ravagers, of which Star-Lord belongs/ed to as well as Yondu and Gunn’s brother, Sean Gunn, Kraglin.

Similar to Nebula, it’s also been said Yondu joins the Guardians of the Galaxy team this time around.

“Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2” has a May 5, 2017 release also starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Michael Rooker and Sean Gunn. New cast members include Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sullivan and Kurt Russell.