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James Gunn Spends Opening Weekend Of Guardians of the Galaxy Working On The Sequel

By Danny F. Santos (doddleNEWS)

Your film opens in August and has the biggest openings of all time for that month. It exceeds the studios expectations, and after two years of continuous work, and you feel you need a little time off, what do you do?

Start working on the sequel, of course!

At least that’s what director James Gunn did this past weekend. Guardians of the Galaxy made $94 million in theaters domestically, and $160 million worldwide — that’s not bad for a comic book property most people have never heard of before.

Gunn took to Facebook to thank all of the people who worked on the film and the audience who went out to see it. It’s in that message that he let’s us know he is hard at work on the sequel… but what could he be brewing for the next one?

Speaking to Empire Magazine, Gunn revealed that the cocoon in The Collector’s menagerie was, indeed, Adam Warlock’s, as some Marvel fans have suspected. In the post credit scene the cocoon is broken and empty so it’s possible we may have just been given a clue in the direction of a second film. It also helps that in the comics Warlock plays an incredibly significant role in the Infinity Gauntlet storyline and that could mean more Thanos in the next film too.

Here’s the message Gunn posted to Facebook:

Thanks to all of you who saw (and are seeing) Guardians of the Galaxy this weekend, from the bottom of my heart. The Guardians are a group of oddballs, outcasts, and geeks. The movie is for anyone who ever felt cast aside, left out, or different. It's for all of us who don't belong. This movie belongs to you. And, today, I think we're doing okay.

I am of course happy with all the film has accomplished box-office-wise. But what touches me the most is that the film I told the folks at Marvel I wanted to make two years ago is the film that you're seeing in theaters today -- it's that so many of you seem to be directly EXPERIENCING the film I INTENDED. The cast, the producers, the crew, and I felt like we were making something special while we were making it. But it is very rare that a director's INTENTIONS in creating a film, or a scene, or a character, or a line of dialogue are, seemingly, specifically what is experienced by an audience (not to mention critics!), and that seems to be what has happened here. You have allowed a talking raccoon -- for a moment, a minute, or a day -- to make you a little more human. And for that, I am profoundly grateful.

If I relied on myself to implement these intentions, the film would be a shambling mess. But instead, I had a wonderful cast, genius producers, an incredibly brave studio, sublimely talented visual effects artists, great editors, and the best damn crew of mostly-British bastards to actually implement these intentions for me. Where I had a good idea they would, through alchemy, transform it into a great one. Many of you involved are friends of mine on Facebook. Many of you will read this somewhere else. I love you all.

You may remember me posting here a couple weeks ago how sad I was to be finishing up the film, that I was having trouble letting go of Rocket, and that I was going to miss him. But seeing him (and Groot, and the rest of the team) embraced by the world like they have been, to be UNDERSTOOD, makes it a wonderful letting go. It's like giving a foster pet up for adoption to the most wonderful parents in the world.

And, of course, I'm not really saying goodbye as, while many of you have been enjoying the film, I've spent this weekend hard at work on the sequel. I couldn't help myself! The results are nice but it's really the creative process I love and that keeps me going. I'm on fire with this thing! The Guardians have so many hardships and heartaches and triumphs ahead of them, and I can't wait to share them with all of you.

Onto week two...

Love, James

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 opens July 28, 2017

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