RW467 - MCU Rewatch - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2

 

In this episode of The Marvel Cinematic Universe Rewatch, Cory and Nathan know that family is where the heart is as they discuss "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2."

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The film was officially announced at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International before the theatrical release of the first film, along with James Gunn's return from the first film, with the title of the sequel revealed a year later in June 2015. Principal photography began in February 2016 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, with many crew changes from the first film due to other commitments.

After the film's announcement, Gunn said he knew "a lot of where I want to go [in the sequel]", having written the backstory of Peter Quill, his father, and his history with Yondu during the making of the first film with the intention of exploring them in a future film. Gunn wanted to give the sequel a different structure from the first film, since "one of the reasons people like Guardians is because it's fresh and different, so the second one will be fresh and different from the first one." Before starting on the script, Gunn hoped to further explore Drax, Nebula, Kraglin, and the Collector, and expand on Xandarian, Kree, Krylorian, and Ravager culture. He also hoped to introduce more female characters in the sequel, though wanted to avoid including "earthlings" such as Carol Danvers, as well as Novas Richard Rider or Sam Alexander, saying, "I think Quill being the only earthling is important. That serves the entire movie-going audience and not just the handful of Nova [and Carol Danvers] fans.

When director James Gunn was writing the script for the movie and proposed the idea of Ego the Living Planet being Star-Lord's father, Marvel told him that they did not have the rights to the character. The rights belonged to 20th Century Fox because of his ties to the Fantastic Four and Silver Surfer franchises. Since Gunn had no other characters in mind for Star-Lord's father, he had to ask Fox if he could use the character. Fortunately, Fox agreed to let Marvel have Ego, in return for Fox gaining more creative freedom over Negasonic Teenage Warhead's set of superpowers in Deadpool (2016).

According to the visual effects artists, Ego's planet contains one trillion polygons. At the time of the film's release, this was considered to be the biggest visual effect ever made.

Prop master Russell Bobbitt had difficulty finding the cassette decks used in the first film, and all of the Sony Walkman headphones they found were broken. Bobbitt contacted Sony to see if they had any available for filming. They did not, so he eventually created six from scratch.

Dave Bautista's Drax make-up took 90 minutes to apply (down from three hours for the first film). However, he would have to sit in a sauna at the end of the day in order to get the make-up off.

Karen Gillan's Nebula make-up took 2.5 hours to apply, which is actually down from five hours for the first film. She also only had to shave half of her head this time around; for the first movie all her hair was shaved off.

Bradley Cooper recorded his lines for Rocket while wearing a motion-capture headpiece in the recording studio, to perfectly synchronize Rocket's voice and facial expressions. In the first film, Cooper supplied only the voice.

Vin Diesel recorded Groot's voice for 16 foreign language releases of the film, up from six for the first film.

In the Guardians of the Galaxy comics, Taserface is a warrior from the cybernetically enhanced race known as The Stark. The Stark are an alien race that found Iron Man technology that had accidentally crashed on their planet, and as a result they worship Tony Stark (Iron Man) as their god.

According to director James Gunn, Groot always freezes when Drax catches him dancing because he knows Drax disapproves of it. In a scene from the film, Drax explains that he was attracted to his late wife because she steadfastly did not dance.

Baby Groot is actually the offspring of Groot, not the same character, as confirmed by James Gunn on Twitter where he posted: "First Groot is dead. Baby Groot is his son."

James Gunn said in an Instagram post in August 2017 that Farscape (1999) was one of his all-time favorite sci-fi shows. When he ran into the show's star, Ben Browder, a couple of years before shooting Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) at the Saturn Awards, he asked him if he'd make a cameo. He thankfully agreed and can be seen as the Sovereign admiral with Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki).

This film marks the fifth collaboration between James Gunn and Michael Rooker. The other four were Slither (2006), Super (2010), Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and The Belko Experiment (2016), which Gunn wrote.

The teaser poster is a parody of the cover for Ramones' album "Rocket to Russia".

This film features five mid- and post-credit scenes.

Stan Lee Cameo: discussing previous adventures that include his cameos in other Marvel films. According to Kevin Feige, this was a nod to the popular theory that Lee is a cosmic entity in Marvel: "Stan Lee clearly exists, you know, above and apart from the reality of all the films. So the notion that he could be sitting there on a cosmic pit stop during the jump gate sequence in 'Guardians' was something very fun, it says, 'Wait a minute, he's this same character who's popped up in all these films?'

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