02x02 - The Making of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

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[CAPTIVATING INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC PLAYING]

[LAUGHS]

CHRIS PRATT: Guardians of the Galaxy was

expected to be Marvel's first big flop.

They were scraping

the bottom of the barrel.

You know, we were picked last.

And James Gunn, nine years ago,

it's hard to believe,

he was the guy who did Scooby-Doo.

And he was a great director.

He'd done a superhero movie, Super.

It made $377,000 at the box office.

[ALL LAUGHING]

[LAUGHING]

But he believed.

He believed in himself.

He believed in me. Yeah, so, thank you.

[ALL APPLAUDING]

KEVIN FEIGE: Guardians represents such

a big milestone for us at Marvel Studios.

A group of characters that were not

the most famous group of characters ever.

And yet, under the guidance

of writer-director James Gunn,

they captured the world's imagination.

We are very much committed

and very loyal and devoted

to James', you know, vision.

He's a great captain to have, absolutely,

and he establishes

such a beautiful environment

of friendship and creativity,

but also passion.

JAMES GUNN: How are

you guys feeling today?

[ALL CHEERING]

Welcome to Guardians of the Galaxy.

PRATT: For him to have done all

three movies is a blessing for all of us.

- GUNN: Yo!

- It's so uniquely his.

His voice,

his writing, his directing, his style,

his love for animals,

his love for the bizarre.

The tone, he has a very specific tone,

and it's a James Gunn tone.

Lower your weapons.

Let's k*ll that one

that looks like a carrot

and show him we mean business.

- After he says, "Lower your weapons."

- After he says, "Lower your"

KAREN GILLAN: We all went to Comic-Con

and showed some footage

from the first Guardians.

And Guardians didn't have

this huge fan base.

People were aware of it, but it wasn't

like Captain America or Thor.

Then I remember the whole audience

watching it in slight, like

It was like digesting something new.

That's what it felt like.

And then we went to Comic-Con

the second year around,

and the audience was so pumped.

They were like, "Give us more!"

Are you all excited to see the show?

[AUDIENCE CHEERING]

All right.

There's more of a connection

because the Guardians are so imperfect.

[LAUGHS] I think they're more relatable.

And I think, you know,

there's just a true,

genuine kind of family love,

a chosen family love,

which a lot of people in the world

can relate to.

The Galaxy still needs its Guardians.

And you will make a better leader

than I ever was.

Cap'n.

GUNN: When Marvel first came to me

and talked to me about

perhaps doing Guardians of the Galaxy,

as stupid as it sounds,

I was making lower budget films,

but I wasn't sure

I never wanted to make a movie

that I couldn't sink my teeth into,

that I really didn't care about

with every fiber of my being.

I was driving home from a meeting

and thought,

"Well, if there was a real

talking raccoon,

"where did that raccoon come from?"

And I thought, "Well, this is the saddest

creature in the universe."

This is a little animal that was turned

into something he shouldn't be

and felt completely

ostracized and alienated

from every other life form in the galaxy,

and was angry.

[GRUNTING]

Well, I didn't ask to get made.

I didn't ask to be torn apart

and put back again over and over,

and turned into some [SIGHS]

Some little monster.

GUNN: That loneliness is really

the center of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

People think of them

as light-hearted movies and fun movies,

but everything that drives it

is that emotional center

of Rocket and the other characters

who are all outsiders.

They're going to tell you

that this is Rocket's story. It's not.

It's always Peter Quill's story,

AKA Legendary Outlaw.

Don't forget that. This is Star-Lord's

Who told you it was Rocket's story?

It's not.

It belongs to Star That's

It's a lie.

Um, no, it is Rocket's story.

I told you a million times

you keep your grimy raccoon hands

off my Zune.

I told you a million times

I'm not a damn raccoon.

PRATT: Sean is extraordinary.

I mean, he really brings Rocket to life

for all of us on set.

We'll fly away together, the four of us.

Just like we always said. Okay?

It started with me

essentially getting a phone call

from my brother James, saying,

"Hey, I'm doing this movie

"and I think I have a role for you.

"I might have two roles for you."

And it kind of snowballed from there.

Quit smiling like an idiot.

You're supposed to be a professional.

I've talked about the process

of playing this role over the years

and what it's taken.

It's always, for me, been about

what I'm giving to the other actors.

They need Rocket to be real.

- Hey, what is that?

- That is for when things get hardcore.

Sean really goes

completely out of his way

to deliver a heartfelt and strong

and convincing Rocket

while we're sh**ting,

that we're able to bounce off of him

because it has to be that way.

I can't explain how valuable it is

to have him there and perform with him.

Especially in the first film,

because he brought out

some of my better moments,

which, at that time,

was really important for me as an actor,

as a struggling actor.

All the anger,

all the rage

was just to cover my loss.

ZOE SALDANA: When we're

sh**ting the movie,

I'm only going to speak for myself,

I really do believe that Sean is Rocket.

But also, you know,

when I watch the movie

and I hear Bradley Cooper's voice,

then he really feels to me

like Rocket as well.

So, I feel like Rocket

is half of both these individuals.

- What are you gonna do about Quill?

- Me? Why not you?

I got emotionalistical issues.

What am I gonna do?

I'm proud of the work that we all

have done in creating this character.

From Bradley Cooper to my brother James,

and then the whole special effects team,

which is in the middle,

to me, it's modern storytelling.

There's a whole community of people

that made this great character.

Rocket Racoon.

DAVE BAUTISTA: You know, after where

we've gone with Ronan and Thanos,

to find a character

who is worthy

of being our adversary in this film

was not an easy thing to accomplish.

CHUKWUDI IWUJI: We've always

wanted to know where Rocket

came from and why he's so super bright,

and it turns out that

the High Evolutionary is this scientist

who has been doing experiments

to create "Humanimals", he calls them,

to create, in his head,

the perfect world.

He thinks he's bettering the universe

by doing it

and has sort of gone

into that very gray area

between genius and madness.

It's our sacred mission

to take an imperfect clump

of biological matter such as you

and transform it into something

perfect.

It's almost like your classic father-son.

Son seeks revenge,

but twisted on its head,

father then seeks revenge

in my relationship with Rocket.

Hello.

SIMON HATT: Somewhere along the line,

it stops being about,

like, this father-son relationship

and it reverts to this experimenter

and specimen relationship.

I made you!

How did you know?

SALDANA: The High Evolutionary

is aware of what he's doing,

but firmly believes that

there are creatures of less importance.

And they're just available for him

to do with them as he pleases.

It's a little baby, cute raccoon

- being torn apart.

- [GASPS]

And, yes, he's screeching and screaming

and you're putting him back together

and it's unlike anything you've ever seen.

So, I'm not gonna show a raccoon

being torn apart and put back together,

- so I'm going to show it on your face.

- Okay.

So that's the important thing

at the beginning.

It's just your horror

of what you're seeing.

That was an emotional scene

to watch him go through this t*rture.

Why did he never tell us

about any of this?

This is worse than what Thanos did to me.

GUNN: You don't want to just

have moustache-twirling,

evil villain doing evil for no reason.

"I wanna take over the world,

I wanna destroy the universe."

All these things

that don't really make sense.

You don't want that.

But also, once you really

get to know a villain

and you start to feel, "Hey,

they've got a good reason for something,"

you stop hating them.

You gotta hate 'em.

And so, Chuk really brings

both of those things.

We understand exactly what he wants to do

and we also hate his guts

because he's a jerk.

We need 89P13's brain

so we can transfer that trait

into these creatures

before we go to the new colony.

Nothing else matters.

We started with images from the comic,

and James was like

"That's not

who I want this villain to be."

And how did he get to this point?

It works in the comic,

but in the evolution of the character

in this script,

it needed something new

and unique and different.

And it started with the makeup.

And I have to say that

was a great collaboration

with Legacy Effects.

Legacy did a lot of makeup sketches,

and then we did clothes

that went with that.

IWUJI: He's a huge narcissist,

this character,

and clearly, he loves

the fabrics and the colors.

Royal Purple, of course.

But I just love what Judianna

and the team have done

with slicking him up

and making him very elegant.

I want to be a dictator.

I want to be a dictator.

My character has actually

three makeup looks in this.

We have the flashback look, which

is very similar to what you see here.

Then the Rocket incident happened.

[SCREAMING]

And that leaves him

physically scarred also.

And when we meet him in real time,

as it were, it's look number two.

That's the public figure.

The look I'm sure

a lot of people in Beverly Hills

pay a lot of money for to look that tight,

you know? [LAUGHS]

You almost have to admire their pluck.

And then we have a final look,

which basically

is the face behind the mask.

- His face came off.

- [ALL LAUGHING]

- Cut.

- [LAUGHS]

Cut.

He's so good and purple

and dark, and like

and evil.

BAUTISTA: Chuk's incredible

playing this part,

which is odd because he is just

the sweetest guy ever.

You understand me, don't you?

None of the others do.

You understand me, don't you?

Yeah.

GUNN: This is both a bigger

and a smaller story than Vol. 2.

I think that, you know,

we have a lot of different planets,

a lot of new places we're exploring.

This is the biggest spaceship

that I've ever been in.

It's three actual stories of a spaceship.

So, our sets are huge,

but it's also a much more intimate

and smaller story in certain ways.

These characters all share

a lot of things.

Really at the end of the day,

as I've said many times before,

the Guardians of the Galaxy

are about a group of characters

who have all experienced childhood trauma

and how do they bring those traumas

into their adult life

and how is it all related

to a giant space opera?

And so, this movie is facing those issues

much more head-on

than I think our first two movies did.

Everyone around me dies.

My mother, Yondu

- Gamora.

- Gamora isn't dead.

She is to us.

We follow this arc of Peter Quill

through the course of these movies

and really, it's been

The first movie was

a young man learning to care

about something other than himself.

To be less selfish,

to be part of a family.

Usually, life takes more

than it gives. But not today.

Today, it's given us something.

It has given us a chance.

And then in the second film,

it's wanting to learn more about himself,

to find meaning in his identity,

to understand who he is.

And he thinks he finds that

in the character that is his father.

But again, he has to be reminded

that the family he's a part of

is the family that adopted him.

And I think the arc of the third movie

is Quill

learning to be okay on his own,

and learning,

as Drax powerfully puts it in a metaphor

that's given to him by Mantis,

how to stop jumping

from lily pad to lily pad,

but rather to learn how to swim.

This is great. It's great emotional work.

- MAN 1: And cut.

- MAN 2: Cut.

Might have made a g*n sound.

GILLAN: Chris is such an amazing energy

to have on set.

He's a perfect number one

on the call sheet,

meaning that person usually sets the tone

and it trickles down.

- Whoa-oh! Yeah!

- I did that for you, brother.

GILLAN: It's a really joyous atmosphere

with him around.

I know I'm good

because I was amazing in that take.

Whoo!

That's the kind of acting

that really keeps me going.

BAUTISTA: It's hard for me to describe

how it is working with him

because our characters,

I think our acting styles,

our personalities

are complete yin and yang.

So [LAUGHS] It just feels so easy.

Come on, it's me, Peter Quill.

I'm one of you, remember?

I don't know if there's another character,

another performer

that I enjoy just bouncing off of

more than Chris Pratt.

'Cause we just work together.

I'm just a perfect straight man

to his high energy.

Can't you see

these authentic mechanic uniforms

that we're wearing on our bodies?

That blend in with some of our skin-tones

better than others?

Okay, now do it again like that

and then turn to Karen and go,

"Now, you go!"

[ALL LAUGHING]

GILLAN: Everybody is so in tune

with their characters.

It's like second nature now.

We can slip in and out easily

because we've been doing it

for a long time.

And everyone is giving

their best performances.

It feels like we've never been better.

It does feel like

lightning in a bottle, actually.

SALDANA: I'm surprised that

Gamora is in this installment as much

because I immediately knew

what had happened, you know, in Avengers,

and I was just like, "Well, it would be

an honor to just come for two scenes

"and then, you know,

bid everyone farewell."

But I was deeply surprised

and really grateful that I got to play

Like, Gamora really has a lot to do

and a lot to sort of observe

of the Guardians in this movie.

Trap isn't a trap if you know the trap

is trying to trap you. It's a face-off.

What?

A face-off is a trap

if you're facing off against a man

more powerful than you.

The Gamora of Vol. 1

will have a lot more in common

with the Gamora of Vol. 3 for sure.

We loved each other.

I don't think so.

SALDANA: Even though they have

these experience lived,

you know, with the other Gamora,

they feel familiar to her.

But she doesn't understand why.

So it's a very confusing concept for her.

But I do find this Gamora very exciting,

you know, because she's very independent,

and, um, she's really wild. [LAUGHS]

And she's different.

There's a spunk to her

that, you know, Gamora never really had.

So, you're a Ravager now?

Put on the uniform.

Never pictured you as the Ravager type.

Who are you again?

So she's now a Ravager,

and so, it's a whole different

costume change.

We didn't reference anything

from her other costumes at all.

And we established in Guardians 2

that there were a group of women Ravagers

who wore green.

So she's in green.

HATT: In Yondu's death,

the Ravagers have become united.

So when you see them this time around,

there's Yellow,

there's Blue, there's Red, there's Green,

everyone's there,

and they're one Ravager tribe right now.

And Gamora is a feared

and respected entity.

This is what you got to live up to.

All right. Get in here.

You know, we learned

a little bit in Guardians 2,

when you heard the back stories

of Nebula and Gamora,

that Nebula is not really

the bad guy in that situation.

Gamora is the bad guy.

As a child, my father would have

Gamora and me

battle one another in training.

Every time my sister prevailed

my father would replace

a piece of me with machinery

claiming he wanted me to be her equal.

But she won

again and again, and again,

never once refraining.

GUNN: Nebula has grown up quite a bit.

If anything, in many ways,

she's the leader of the Guardians

because Quill has been incapacitated

by his own emotional situation.

And we see, you know, Nebula and Gamora

as the way they are now,

and they've changed roles

from what they were in Guardians 1.

Old you would have

never done this.

You had a purpose

higher than yourself.

A calling to help people. That's why

you left Thanos and formed the Guardians.

Except I didn't form the Guardians,

and I barely left Thanos.

Whoever it was

that you were in love with

it wasn't me.

It sounds more like her.

- Her?

- What?

- That's ridiculous! Don't even

- Do not bring me into this.

GILLAN: Me and Zoe are so bonded

through the experience

of playing these characters. It's crazy.

Like we feel really protective

over the sister relationship

and how it's portrayed on screen

and it just really matters

to the both of us.

It's something that

we just connected with a lot.

And over the years

it's resulted in a really special bond

between the two of us.

Hopefully, she agrees with me. [LAUGHS]

I got an HR complaint

that they're too giggly.

- [ALL LAUGHING]

- Oh, he's right.

I would have loved

to have seen just a spin-off

based on that sisterhood.

It's so complex.

It's so controversial. It's, um

It's also so relatable in a sense that,

not me by personal experience,

but knowing that

there are siblings out there

that have had troubled lives at home,

and managed to survive

because of their kinship,

because of their brotherhood

or their sisterhood.

Tell me something.

In the future

what happens to you and me?

I try to k*ll you.

Several times.

But eventually, we become friends.

We become sisters.

Karen is a very talented actor,

and she transforms herself.

Nebula and Karen could not be

any more different from each other.

I'm covered in goo because we've been

climbing through a gooey surface.

[LAUGHING] And we're absolutely

head to toe covered in goo

and it's Wednesday

and it's our first day

back after the holidays,

and we're just getting our goo right on.

Her voice for Nebula

is like Clint Eastwood.

And then they say, "Cut,"

and she sounds to me like

Mrs. Doubtfire.

She's like this Scottish

[IN CHILD-LIKE VOICE] Ooh, was it

And then she goes into

[IN DEEP VOICE]

"Okay, now I'm Nebula."

[LAUGHING]

Oh, dear.

I've always found her pretty funny

because she's so serious.

And I think that if anyone's that serious,

there is an element of comedy to it.

But she's now becoming a lot funnier.

[GRUNTING]

- Push down on it.

- What?

- Push it down.

- I am pushing down on it.

Push the button.

- You're pushing the keyhole.

- The what?

There's a button under the handle,

press that in.

[GRUNTS AND SIGHS] Okay. Now what?

Open the [BLEEP] door.

That is a stupid design,

and your instructions were very unclear.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

That is the next step in our evolution.

More powerful, more beautiful

more capable of destroying

the Guardians of the Galaxy.

I think I shall call him

Adam.

SARA: Adam Warlock has been sent

by his mother, Ayesha, to capture Rocket.

Hey!

Where did you go, squirrel?

And what we've come to learn

is actually

that is at the behest

of the High Evolutionary

who was the creator

of the Sovereign people.

You get this wonderful pair

of Ayesha played by Elizabeth Debicki

and Adam Warlock, played by Will Poulter.

I am the Warlock, Mum,

and I am done with being ordered around.

The best way to describe Adam Warlock

would be in the words

of the High Evolutionary.

He was created with the hopes

that he would be

the apogee of the Sovereign people.

And he comes out

a little early from his cocoon,

and he's somewhat half-baked.

Who threw this thing at me?

- Shut up.

- [WHIMPERING]

Baby.

The way that James wrote

the character of Adam Warlock,

it really did require an actor

who could handle both humor

but also some of the weightier moments

of the film.

Right at the beginning of the movie,

you realize Adam Warlock is not a guy

that you want to mess with.

I've had an opportunity to work with

the stunt team here on a bunch of things,

which has been a real treat.

The wire work,

the various rigs to make it look like

you're flying, that's fun.

I've had a couple of flying dreams

that have really improved

in terms of their quality

since training on this movie,

because I feel like I got as close

to the real thing as one can get.

Who is that maniac?

Some super douche with ray g*n hands,

I don't frickin' know.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

WILL POULTER: For Knowhere,

they practically created

a whole city right there.

It was unbelievable.

Now, of course,

we had Knowhere in Guardians Vol.1.

It was a pretty simple set.

We actually built it outdoors.

And this is quite an upgrade to that.

This is truly an extraordinary set.

I feel they could take this piece by piece

and put it in Disneyland,

and it would be a ride.

It's unbelievable. It's three stories.

Exceptional craftsmanship

and, you know

The opening of the movie

takes place right here,

and, man-o-man, I don't know,

they didn't spare any expense

when building this set.

And we've got, I don't know,

probably over 100 extras,

full alien makeup.

Show yourselves, guys.

Look over here. Wave.

Look at some of these folks.

Look at that makeup.

You in the blue, how long did that take?

WOMAN: Two seconds. It's a mask.

- Oh.

- [ALL LAUGHING]

Two hours! We're going to fix it.

It took nine hours

in the makeup trailer, uh,

just because she's a diva

and needed to get a foot massage.

- It's just a mask?

- Yeah.

- This one takes two hours.

- Two hours.

- MAN: Three hours.

- Three hours over here.

See? A lot of manpower. But, hey

it's the final Guardians of the Galaxy,

so we went big, you know.

Go big or go home.

Welcome to Knowhere.

This is, uh, Rocket's

apartment here.

He's got all sorts of

little machinery parts.

You can tell what his life is all about,

machines, things like that

and building stuff.

That's his bed.

And this is where he puts

the Zune in the cradle

listening to Heart.

And then this is where Adam Warlock

is going to smash through over here,

grab him here, smash through that wall

Boom! Boom! We're gonna sh**t all that.

And then smashes

into Peter Quill's bedroom.

Smashes through here.

He's got all this old video game stuff

that he's collected

from junkers and Earth stuff.

Smashes through there

and smashes through there,

going directly above Quill

who has moved his

Uh, you can see he's moved

the cassette player

from the Milano into his bedroom.

And then smashes

and they land on that roof over there.

Oh, hell.

Here on Knowhere,

we see Kraglin and Cosmo.

Oh, yeah, we introduce that dynamic duo.

[ZAPPING AND BEEPING]

[SHRIEKS]

COSMO: Bozhe moi, Kraglin.

- You must know will never learn.

- You think you could do better?

COSMO: Da.

We gender swapped Cosmo.

- I believe in the comics

- 'Cause Cosmo is a man.

HATT: Yeah, and Cosmo's obviously

based on the dogs

that the Russians sent to space

at the beginning of the Space Race.

I think one in particular was Laika,

who was a female dog.

That's why we did the gender swap

in honor of Laika,

the original dog

that went to went to space

- Dog cosmonaut.

- and did not come back, sadly.

GUNN: I always wanted to pull in Cosmo.

I just didn't know how to do it.

You know, it made just sense

that she would show up

because we already knew that Cosmo

was in Knowhere from the first movie,

so being able to then, um, have her become

an actual character was important.

Nebula? Nebula, did you hear?

He called me a bad dog,

and he refused to take it back.

We actually did

a pretty wide search for Cosmo.

We auditioned a lot of different actors.

Cosmo was being played

by the very talented Maria Bakalova.

GUNN: She is just always just very sweet

and very good natured.

Very open with her emotions.

Very exuberant.

She has that dog-like quality in her

that we all love about dogs.

Kraglin, Cosmo, I need you to keep watch.

over Knowhere till we're back.

Couple of days, tops.

Aye, comrade.

I located the coordinates for OrgoCorp.

I have a contact near there.

- Maybe they can help us get in.

- Contact him.

Let's go save our friend.

BETH MICKLE: James really cares about

everything being in camera,

which is incredible from

a production designer's standpoint,

a set-design standpoint,

that's music to our ears.

In the first draft

for Guardians of the Galaxy 3,

our Orgoscope planet was originally

scripted as a gyroscopic planet,

so the first week or two, my initial

research was all going toward that.

James and I started talking

about what happened on this planet,

and it's all genetic research,

and it's all experimentation.

And so he felt, you know,

that it might be more interesting

if the planet itself was entirely organic,

as if the scientist had grown it

from the beginning,

and that was the origin of it.

And it really rooted it,

in an interesting story point

that made sense

with what they're doing on this planet.

But then it gave this incredible challenge

to myself in the art department

and Judianna in the costume department

to try to come up with a planet

that's entirely organically grown,

but still a place

that you want to spend time. [CHUCKLES]

If you can look here,

you can see your spacesuits floating

by that window outside.

- Ha!

- Right?

Damn it!

GUNN: We are in the Orgoscope,

which is both the most beautiful

and most disgusting set we've ever had

in the Guardians universe.

It looks like, uh,

kind of a wonderful colonoscopy

if you're walking through it.

But [LAUGHING] So

But it's It's

Yeah, I mean, this is a

You know, I wanted to create a place

that is architecturally different

than other places we've seen so far.

And the way the Orgoscope was created

is they actually grow the materials.

So it's composed of bone,

it's composed of organs they use,

you know, organs and flesh.

The suits that they're wearing

are composed of like a sort of flesh

that's grown that insulates them

and protects them.

[GRUNTING]

GUNN: Orgosentries were something that

I thought of them at first as maybe

being a little bit more crab-like,

and then I saw the crab costumes

and it looked like

things that we'd seen before.

And so I said,

"Well, what if they're made of flesh?

"Like, they grow these costumes."

And Shane and the team over at Legacy

came up with this crazy costume

that looks like something

out of a French art film,

or it looks like one of those sumo

wrestler costumes that you put on

and, you know, it protects you through

the actual girth of the costume.

And it isn't shaped at all

what we think of as the sort of

hyper-masculine tough shape

that we think of soldiers

as often being in movies.

It's very poofy with the big butt.

And it's great to see Nathan Fillion

playing Major Karja

walking around like

he's the most hardcore dude in the world.

Let's go, dummies.

MICKLE: The set that we're sh**ting

today is Orgo Space Park,

and we're sh**ting a scene where Drax

and Mantis fight all the Orgosentries.

MAN: Here we go. Ready and action!

We did some pretty fun things

at the Orgoscope Space Park.

Dave Bautista, he's a badass.

We did come in trying to give Mantis

a little different kind of a flare,

so we came up with some really fun

alternate options for them.

- You're a kitty cat.

- Meow.

[GRUNTS]

You feel like dancing.

We're always trying to push the envelope

and do what we think is unique.

We just push it, you know,

we just have fun with it.

[BOTH SCREAMING]

MAN: Cut! Cut, cut.

Pom is Out of all of us,

she's probably the most artistic, I think.

She's really, like,

almost a throwback performer.

She's almost from a different era.

[IN GROWLING VOICE] No!

- Hello.

- Hello.

PRATT: She's like a thrill seeker.

She's off parachuting and horseback riding

and doing all of this crazy stuff.

I'm learning French now.

[APPLAUDING]

PRATT: Learning all of these martial arts.

Can I do more kicking, though?

Kick him in the face?

[CHUCKLES] Pom is probably my

She's my favorite Guardian.

Mantis is my favorite Guardian.

I [LAUGHS] I think not only is she

a brilliant actress,

but what she does

with this character is so fun.

And she has such a sweet

innocence about her.

But also, she's really

You know, she can be a sarcastic little

- Hello!

- [LAUGHING]

We've really kind of dove into that,

you know,

that sibling rivalry.

Get in there and say,

"Are you kidding me?"

- In his face?

- Yeah.

I love working with Dave.

He's amazing. He's like soft-spoken,

but also he can be very loud sometimes,

like acting-wise.

Ha!

You're lucky

I was able to knock down that door

And also for what he stands for,

and I really respect that.

But he's also very sweet,

you know, and so funny.

And the dynamic between the characters

is so well written by James.

We just have fun with it.

It is wrong to manipulate

the feelings of friends.

You made me fall in love with my sock.

Well, that was funny.

It is a majestic performance by Dave.

Drax is ridiculous,

but also we totally believe him.

He's completely believable

and emotionally grounded.

And we get to see, really, his origins

in this movie in a way as well.

I had a little girl like you.

You know what she used to like?

She liked when I made monkey noises.

Beep, beep, beep, beep.

[MIMICKING MONKEY POORLY]

[GIRLS LAUGH]

PRATT: I can't imagine anyone else

playing Drax. It's totally Dave.

It has been Dave

since the moment he walked in

and he and I screen tested together.

Everybody knew.

You'll get to k*ll this guy,

but you got to help us sell this.

Which means, no matter

what I tell you to do, you do it. Okay?

Or we can decide together

is what I'm saying.

Well for the most part,

you'll make the decisions, okay?

[DAVE LAUGHS]

PRATT: I start to get sentimental

thinking about

the fact that over the past ten years,

we've spent so much time together.

Granted, he's been in grey and red

makeup the whole time,

so without his makeup on,

I don't recognize him,

but we've spent a lot of time together.

Five movies, press tours, premieres

and to think that none of those things

are going to be happening

in our lives anymore,

I hope that doesn't mean that

we don't spend time together.

Because I'd miss him.

I got your back, big boy.

Okay? I got your back.

I won't touch you again.

That's the last time I touch you.

Okay. I'm glad I did that.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

HATT: The High Evo

has been continuing his work.

You know, he's been building planets,

populating them with species,

and we get to see one.

We go to Counter-Earth,

which is populated

with what we call the Humanimals.

And it's like a Island of Dr. Moreau.

It's weird and wonderful.

And Alexei and Shane Mahan

and Lindsay MacGowan of Legacy

have done incredible work

bringing those characters to life.

Okay. Great.

All right, let's see that again.

PRATT: You've got bat people

and turtle people,

and rabbit people,

and these, like, kind of a warthog people.

- The adorable baby.

- I know.

- He's gorgeous. He looks like

- Yeah.

PRATT: But they're all rocking

clothes from the '80s.

It's the funniest thing.

GUNN: We had a huge makeup team

creating all of these characters

and sort of doing it in a way

that we had A's, B's and C's.

A's were the really full done makeups

that were in the front

that were going to be featured.

B's were a little bit further back.

You might see glimpses of them,

but we're not going to do

close-ups of them.

And then the C's wore

kind of, more simple masks

that people could pull on

and we could put way in the background.

That all had to be very planned out.

It was like, in this scene,

how many Humanimals are in this sh*t?

How many are in this sh*t?

How many are in all of this scene

and just figuring all of that out,

so that we could, you know,

make the movie work as well as possible.

This is the perfect society?

Those Humanimal days were absolutely huge.

Our background tent was gigantic.

We have all of our trailers packed.

All of them wore teeth, contacts,

they all have hands and all that stuff.

It was a big undertaking for us,

for Legacy.

Legacy Effects,

they absolutely made just amazing pieces.

Beautiful hair work,

custom wigs for all of them,

custom hairpieces.

Having them all on set was super exciting

because it was just

so many different looks

and they were all practical.

They made a cassowary bird.

It was, I think,

the postal worker, Blue Jay.

Those were really, really cool.

They turned out amazing.

But the R&D behind that is really cool.

They have a lot of 3D printed elements

with magnets

and the beak and the whole locking jaw,

so the actor gets to drive

the movement of the whole beak.

Groot, full kaiju!

- Not full kaiju!

- I am

- Groot!

- Back up.

No, not kaiju!

Groot, down!

There's no reason to be afraid.

We're not here to harm you.

[SPEAKS ALIEN LANGUAGE]

GUNN: It was originally written

as "vampire bat family,"

and then I said, "But you know,

this is just a placeholder,

"because let's go through

all the different designs and see

"which design

is the best for this family."

And I ended up liking

the vampire bats the best.

Her look especially.

She's fantastic in that role.

That's a real language.

I created a real language

that has grammar and everything to it.

[SPEAKING ALIEN LANGUAGE]

I love seeing the worlds

that ends up being created

because having an actor in makeup

doing the role,

you can see it, you can feel it.

It's the way to go.

There's more makeup applications

on this film than any movie in history.

They b*at out The Grinch.

Which, of course, every character

in The Grinch is a Whovillian.

- PRATT: Yeah.

- GUNN: And so, we have more than them.

It's crazy.

Guinness Book of World Records.

Way to go.

MONEYMAKER: The sets we're sh**ting today

were scripted as being separate sets.

It was the Batch 89 caged hallways

where they're keeping the animals,

the cloisters

where they keep the children,

the Evolutionary Chamber where

the High Evo does his experiments.

But we thought it'd be interesting

to link the sets together

so that you can see

from one set to the next

and make the world feel bigger

and more cohesive.

And so, now, James is taking

great advantage of it,

and he's having the choreography

of his final battle take place,

starts in the hallway,

comes down through a vestibule,

lands into our Evolutionary Chamber,

and it lets the choreography

sprawl around the space.

And we're about to sh**t

the big finale of the film.

Ready? And action!

KLEMENTIEFF: I really enjoyed

working with Heidi Moneymaker

who's been stunt coordinating

for the movie,

and she used to be

Scarlett Johansson's stunt double,

so she's really, really skilled herself,

and also she's amazing at

you know, choreographing the whole thing.

[GRUNTING]

She wanted to make sure

that I got to do some action

because she knew that I loved doing it

and I was craving to do it.

So that was really great

to get to work with her for sure.

It's fun. I'm kicking someone in the face.

Fake kicking.

You want to see all the Guardians

fight together at one time,

and a lot of these movies

are about pulling them apart,

coming back together,

pulling them apart, you know?

Then we get a moment

where they're all together,

but even then,

they're not usually fully together,

and this was them,

really, fully together, working as a team.

This was just a labor of love and passion

for I think everybody on this set.

We've been planning it and working it out

and redoing it and redoing it

since probably September, October,

which is like six months.

It took us a while

to get the wire gags down

because they were very complicated.

And I think in the beginning of this,

I thought,

"This could not go well for us."

[CHUCKLES]

And it ended up being visually

one of my favorite things that we've done.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

GILLAN: What's cool about these movies

is they do a previs of the whole thing

and they even sh**t it

with the stunt doubles

from all the angles that

they will be sh**ting it from.

So you kind of get to see

a version of the movie sh*t on an iPhone

and you think, "I'm doing that

and that's how I'm going to look,

"but slightly worse because I'm not

a trained martial artist." [LAUGHS]

PRATT: This technology is

constantly emerging.

What we have now

in terms of the cameras that we can use,

they are incredibly light.

So they can be handheld,

and because they can be handheld,

you can design action sequences

that are really

unlike anything done before

because the camera operator becomes

just as big a part of the stunt sequence

as the stunt performers and the actors.

GILLAN: At one point,

the camera operator was on wires

and he got hoisted up over me

as I was like being punched in the face.

So that was really intricate, actually,

and required a lot of rehearsal.

And so, we just spent a lot of time

getting that right.

It was quite nerve-racking on the day

because in a one sh*t,

you need to get

everything perfect within one take.

You can do it a few times,

but the pressure is definitely on.

When you guys come together,

there's a moment between you two

where you're the leaders of this team,

totally in charge.

- Yeah.

- Yeah.

Need to get help moving the rope.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah.

- So I'll be like

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

Am I meant to be behind him?

[SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]

[ALL LAUGHING]

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

James wanted to showcase each character,

like, a couple beats from each character,

and we flow from character

to character to character.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Chris really brought a lot to it.

He loves to come into train

and he really learns his choreo.

And then, whatever we give him,

he always ups it

because then he's Star-Lord.

So, like, we give him something

and then he just slaps

all these additional layers on top of it

and we're always like Oh!

What's up, everybody?

So we're getting into sh**ting

some pretty cool action sequences

that'll basically take us

into the third act.

We've got Chris Romrell

up on this podium up there.

And he's sort of modeling, uh

what he wants

what they want me to do.

It always looks better when he does it,

but I'm going to try my best

to make it work. So I'll be

You can't tell from this camera angle but

that's several hundred feet in the air.

I'll be hoisted up there.

They like to use these wires for Romrell,

but I won't have them.

I insist on not having wires.

That's all about you flying.

Am I going to have to have

any core strength for this?

- Nope.

- Oh, good.

[ALL LAUGHING]

- You're ready?

- We're ready.

Are you guys good?

- Henry? All right.

- Okay.

- PRATT: Raise the meat.

- All right.

PRATT: They have these LED panels

giving off the light,

basically creating

the effect of fire all around us

and then they'll animate all of that.

I insisted that we use real fire.

They kind of chickened out,

and so, I guess

we can't burn the place down.

And, yeah, this is just

one day in the life.

It's taken a few hours to get this set up,

and it will be three seconds in the movie.

So, standby.

Did that

look cool?

[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

To be reunited with this Guardians family

for Vol. 3, it's

It's really special.

And I know that it's rare

to have a rapport like we have,

as many years

as we've put in the trenches together.

Still very much a family,

just like the story, really.

What makes it different this time around

is we know that it's coming to an end.

So I think each of us is,

you know, processing that in our own way.

Ahhh! This is too upsetting in a good way.

There is a bittersweet taste

because we know that

it's the last

Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

We're going to have one more scene

with all the Guardians together.

Chris reminded me that yesterday.

So that's going to be very emotional.

Yeah, that's it.

That's the last sh*t

with who I basically consider the,

you know, full Guardians.

Chris and Zoe,

and Dave, Karen, Pom and Sean.

And these are the guys who have been

together with me for nine years now.

And I love each of you guys.

We still have another day

of filming together,

just not in the same scene.

- Um

- Aw.

So I really do love all you guys.

And honest to God,

I couldn't be luckier to have

I hate doing this in front of the camera,

but I'll do it

because I wanted to say

to you guys earlier

that I've been so incredibly blessed

to have this group of people,

and I tell everyone I meet all the time,

as my partners on this journey.

It has just been an amazing thing

because I really, honestly,

love each of you guys so deeply.

As people, as performers, and as friends.

And I love you all.

So thank you for being here with me

on this journey.

[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]

SEAN: Being on set with everyone

and knowing that

there's a little bit of finality

to how we're approaching

these final scenes is really

It's emotional.

I think that we're all savoring

every moment in a way.

In some ways,

the set has been more fun as a result.

I think we've

We've laughed as much as ever

because we know

that there's an end point.

- Hey, James. Love you.

- I love you.

- Did you catch that? Erase it.

- Yep.

[ALL LAUGHING]

[CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]

It's a little sad,

but it's also so joyful.

I mean, who gets to do this, you know?

Who gets to, like,

make something that audiences seem to love

and that we can feel proud of,

and know that we put our hearts into it?

GUNN: If people ask me really,

honestly, truly,

what's my favorite part

of making Guardians of the Galaxy,

- it's working with my brother.

- [CREW APPLAUDING]

He's a great brother and a great friend,

but most of all,

it's just been so fun to watch him.

The first time I heard about the project

of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1,

I had gotten a call from my agent,

and she just said, without any context,

"Are you willing to shave your head?"

And I was like, "What for?"

And she said, "For a Marvel movie."

And then I said, "Yes."

I might have done something

a little bit crazy.

[CROWD CHEERING AND LAUGHING]

I'm bald.

I thought I was going to be filming

for eight days,

and then I thought

that was going to be it.

So ten years ago,

I stood in my office with Karen Gillan,

and I told her,

"This role isn't so big in this movie,

"but I plan on her being

a Guardian of the Galaxy in the future."

The kind of things I tell people

all the time and I'm always wrong.

But this person really came through

and just has shown us how great she is

and what a team player she is

to have to come in

all these days so early.

And I love her and I'm going to miss her.

And that is a trilogy wrap

- on Karen Gillan.

- [CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]

This whole experience has enriched my life

in so many different ways.

I mean, like

It was my first big movie

that I'd ever done.

And how lucky am I

that it was as good a movie

as Guardians of the Galaxy was?

And not only that,

but I was given this incredible character

that I got to explore

over the course of six films.

You okay?

- Is it okay to be sad?

- Mmm-hmm.

It's the end of a journey

'cause this started my career.

I mean, it launched my career

and it changed my life.

He's a diva,

and he doesn't like Behind the Scenes

of him taken.

Stop it. Stop that.

Bautista.

BAUTISTA: This journey coming to an end

is just a very bittersweet thing

because I'm so attached to everybody.

I'm proud of what we've accomplished.

[CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]

We've been on this film since October,

so we really want to finish,

and then we think,

"But this is the last one." [LAUGHS]

No, we don't want to finish.

We wanna stretch this out.

And we need to be good joob joob.

It means friends.

SALDANA: To live within

the Marvel universe

has been nothing but a treat. It's

It's a part of my legacy

that I will so proudly take on with me,

you know?

And And I hope

that my children are proud.

You know, I have three little boys

and they are already becoming

die-hard fans of these characters.

When I first went to Marvel

and I pitched Guardians of the Galaxy,

I brought a little book.

I had worked very hard

trying to put this little book together

of all the different pictures

and photo references and all that stuff.

And within that book,

there were all the characters listed

and who I thought

should play those characters.

And, of course, none of those actors

who were in that book

ended up playing the character,

except for Zoe Saldana,

who I met and loved from the beginning.

SALDANA: It makes me feel really good.

It makes me feel lucky.

It makes me feel fortunate.

It makes me feel proud,

you know, to know so many people

that I look up to and I respect deeply

that live also in this universe, among me.

Every time I feel like

I'm about to fall out of my sorts,

I look around and I see people

that give up so much to be here

because they have a true passion,

a genuine, sincere love

for what we do,

and that always reminds me

that we are very blessed and very lucky

and very fortunate to be here.

And I want to thank you

because you have been a wonderful person.

You believed in me

before I even believed in myself.

So thank you for sticking by me.

And I'm gonna miss Gamora,

but I'm not going to miss

the four-hour makeup.

[ALL LAUGHING]

So [LAUGHS]

GUNN: I'm really just trying to make

the best movie I can,

that's fluid and elegant.

"Elegant" as a word I use the most

while sh**ting it,

while writing it, while editing it.

It's got to have elegance to it.

And it's really been rewarding

for me to make this movie,

which is such a personal statement,

because Rocket is me and this is about me.

And then to see an audience react to it

in a way that they have so far,

it's a good feeling for real.

I'm really grateful for the experience

and especially grateful

for the people that I've been

able to work with along the way.

[ALL CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]

I think the the life with the characters

and the actors

and the sh**ting and everything,

is more alive in this movie

than anything I've done.

And I think even the the setbacks

that happened along the way,

all were in the service

of the greater story.

That's a picture and trilogy wrap

on James Gunn.

[ALL CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]

PRATT: What it's meant to me

to be a part of this franchise,

I mean, it's hard to even put into words.

I've wanted to be an actor my whole life

and didn't know what that would entail.

If I had just been able to pay the bills,

jumping from job to job,

still I'd feel as though

I'd been living the dream,

and I'd have been really content.

The fact that I get to be part of

something that's so universally beloved

that I truly believe

will stand the test of time,

that will be living on screens long after

I'm no longer living on this planet,

it's special.

And it feels It feels remarkable.

You just feel blessed.

May all of us be as lucky

as to work on something

and be part of the collaborative

creative process of creating something

that is so meaningful to so many people,

to make extraordinary friends

along the way

and to help each other

to essentially

live out our dreams. Thank you.

It's been a blast.

[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

Chris' trailer is like

on the other side of the lot.

My trailer is here

right next to where we're sh**ting.

So Chris comes in here every day,

and falls asleep.

And he's the soundest sleeper of all time.

So I decided today is a good day

to draw some stuff on his forehead.

[LAUGHS] All right, let's get in here.

You know, maybe a "peace" symbol or

[KNOCKING ON DOOR]

Yeah. Come on in. I'm with

- What the

- What's up, bro?

- I thought you were asleep.

- Huh?

- I thought you were

- I was gonna come and grab a nap.

What's up?

Look, what's this?

[LAUGHING]

It's a Chris dummy.

Um, what we're going to do today

is we're going to see,

if you get in here close, Jeremy,

you'll see the "Chris" face up close.

It's a fake Chris Pratt

that we carry

at the beginning of the movie.

- He's only What, he's like 25 pounds?

- 25 pounds.

Yeah, that Karen Gillan

is able to carry for a long time

at the beginning of the film.

Yeah, this thing is absolutely photo-real.

I mean, look at this thing.

The first time I saw it, honest to God,

I walked into set

and I saw it lying there

in full Quill wardrobe

- Yeah.

- from the movie.

And I honestly had a bit of a

Like, a visceral reaction,

as if I was seeing my own dead body.

It felt very weird.

Like an out-of-body experience.

Because obviously, it's lifeless,

but it looks so much like me.

And then my next thought

as I got close was,

"Oh, my God, my poor wife."

Like, "This is how big my face is?

It's crazy."

That's not how large my head is, is it?

You're pretty large.

I feel bad for her.

And look at this wrists and hands.

I was like, "This is not my hands.

That's my dad's hands."

Those wrists are bendier than your hands.

They're floppier than mine.

- Argh! No!

- [GUNN LAUGHING]

Anyways, this thing is awesome.

That's going to make it

into the Disney Behind the Scenes.