Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is a 2017 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team Guardians of the Galaxy, produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the sequel to Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) and the 15th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Written and directed by James Gunn, the film stars an ensemble cast including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Sylvester Stallone and Kurt Russell. In the film, the Guardians travel across the universe as they help Peter Quill learn more about his mysterious parentage.
The film was officially announced before the first film’s theatrical release at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International, with the return of James Gunn from the first film, the title of the sequel was released a year later in June 2015. Principal photography began. At Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia in February 2016, many crew changes from the first film occurred due to other commitments. Filming ended in June 2016. James Gunn chose to set the sequel shortly after the first film to explore the characters’ new roles as guardians and to follow Quill’s father’s storyline established throughout that earlier film. Russell was confirmed as Quill’s father in July 2016, portraying Quill’s departure from his comic father.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 premiered in Tokyo on April 10, 2017, and was released in the United States on May 5, 2017, as part of Phase III of the MCU. It grossed over $863 million worldwide, making it the eighth-highest-grossing film of 2017, surpassing its predecessor. The film received praise for its visuals, direction, soundtrack, action sequences, humor and acting, although some critics felt it was inferior to the original. It received a nomination for Best Visual Effects at the 90th Academy Awards. A sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, released on May 5, 2023, preceded by the Disney+ special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special in November 2022.

Details

In 2014, Peter Quill, Gamora, Drax, Rocket and Baby Groot are famous as the Guardians of the Galaxy. High Priestess Aisha of the Sovereign Clan protects the Guardians’ precious Anulax batteries from the Abelisk, an inter-dimensional monster, in exchange for Nebula, Gamora’s estranged sister, who was caught stealing the batteries. After Rocket steals the battery for himself, Sovereign attacks the Guardians’ ship with a fleet of drones. A mysterious figure destroys the drones and Guardians on the crash-land Berhart, a nearby forest planet. The figure reveals himself as Ego, Quill’s father, and introduces Mantis, his mindless sympathetic servant. Ego invites Quill, Gamora, and Drax to his home planet, while Rocket and Groot stay behind to repair the ship and watch Nebula.
Ayesha recruits Yondu Udonta and his crew to retrieve the Guardians, who were exiled from the greater Ravaga community for child trafficking. They grab the rocket, but Yondu hesitates to turn Quill, who he picked up. Kraglin Obfonteri, his lieutenant, questions his objectivity, and Tesurface, another Ravager, leads a mutiny, aided by Nebula, who fires Yondu’s arrow-controlling fins. Taserface rockets to Yondu’s ship and captures Yondu and executes each of his loyalists. Nebula sets out to find and kill Gamora, whom she blames for being tortured by her adoptive father, Thanos. Kraglin, who is remorseful and never signed up for the Rebellion, helps Rocket and Yondu free Groot and repairs Yondu’s arrow fins, setting the team to self-destruct on the Eclector during their escape. Taserface tells Sovereign before he dies in the blast.
Ego, a god-like Celestial who manipulated matter around his consciousness to form his “home” planet, explains that he was projected to travel the universe in a human guise and discover a purpose, eventually falling in love with Quill’s mother, Meredith. Igo hired Yondu to collect the young quill after Meredith’s death, but the boy never received the delivery and Igo has been looking for him ever since. He teaches Quill to harness his inherited celestial powers, while Mantis grows close to Drax and tries to warn him of Ego’s plans. Nebula arrives at Igor’s planet and attempts to kill Gamora, but the pair reconcile and reach an uneasy alliance, soon discovering a cave filled with skeletal remains. Ego brainwashes Quill and reveals that on his travels, he planted seeds on thousands of Earths that could transform into new extensions of himself, but only two cosmic forces could activate them. To that end, he impregnated countless women and hired Yondu to collect their offspring, but killed them all when they failed to inherit his heavenly powers. Ego gives Meredith a brain tumor that is enraged upon realizing that [a] kills her, Quill fights Ego’s influence and violently attacks him, and Ego draws on Quill’s power to parasitically activate the seedlings, which consume the planets they are planted on. started doing
Rocket, Yondu, Groot and Kraglin arrive and along with Mantis, Drax, Nebula and Gamora they rescue Quill. The Guardians travel to Ego’s brain at the center of the planet, where Yondu reveals that he placed the Quill to protect him from Ego. When the Sovereign’s drones return and attack the Guardians, Rocket uses the stolen battery to create a bomb, which Groot plants in Ego’s brain. Quill uses his newfound celestial powers to fight Ego, distracting him enough for the other Guardians and Mentis to escape. The bomb explodes, killing Ego and tearing apart the planet, draining his quill of celestial energy. Yondu sacrifices himself to save Quill by letting himself die in the void of space. Despite being reunited with Gamora, Nebula decides to resume her quest to kill Thanos; The Guardians, with Mantis as a new member, hold a funeral for Yondu. Rocket and Kraglin cheer as dozens of Ravager ships arrive, accepting Yondu’s sacrifice and accepting him as Ravager again.
In a series of post-credits and mid-credits scenes, Kraglin receives Yondu’s telekinetic arrows and control-fins; Ravager leader Stakar Ogord reunites with his former teammates; Aisha creates Adam, a new artificial being with whom she plans to destroy the Guardians; [b] And Groot becomes a teenager.

Cast and characters

Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord:
The half-human, half-Celestial leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy, who was kidnapped from Earth as a child and raised by a group of alien thieves and smugglers. Pratt, who returned as part of a multi-film deal with Marvel,[10] said Quill is now “famous across the galaxy for saving so many people… he feels like he’s part of this team, a leader of this team, he’s a little more responsible and Trying to stay out of trouble, but not necessarily doing the best job.”[11] Pratt said that working on the film forced him to come to terms with the death of his own father. Wyatt Oleff portrays a young Quill again.
Zoe Saldana as Gamora:
A member of the Guardians and an orphan from an alien world seeking redemption for his past crimes. Thanos trained him to be his personal assassin. Saldana described Gamora’s role as the “voice of reason” on the team, saying, “She’s surrounded by all these friends who are so stupid half the time,”[14] and added that she’s the “mother” of the team, saying she’s “just a subtle, detailed , professional person.”[15] Regarding Gamora’s relationship with Nebula, Saldana described it as “volatile” and added, “We’re starting somewhere where we end up with things that are very crazy but appropriate. In the first installment”[16]
Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer:
A member of the Guardians and a highly skilled fighter. Bautista waited for the final version of the script so he wouldn’t “take away from the magic”, which he felt after reading early drafts of the first film.[17] He added that “I wasn’t crazy about my part [in Part 2, initially]. . It went in a different direction than I thought they were going to go with Drax,” noting that he “didn’t think Drax was that important a movie”. The part “clicked” for Bautista after a table reading with the rest of the cast. Bautista called Drax “funnier, more driven” than in the first film,[19] and despite having “a sense of innocence and heartbreak about him”,[14] “most people’s first impression of Drax [is] that he’s a big, meaty brute”. [19] Bautista’s makeup took only 90 minutes to apply, down from four hours for the first film. Her makeup test was found to be too “abrasive”, after which she had to sit in a sauna at the end of the day to get the makeup off. [15]
Vin Diesel as Baby Groot:
A member of the Guardians who is humanoid like a tree and an ally of Rocket. The character began growing from a seedling at the end of the first film, with James Gunn intending to make him fully grown through the sequel. Gunn eventually decided to keep him as “Baby Groot”, which was partly because the film was set months after the first one. Gunn described Baby Groot as Groot’s son from the first film,[22] with Diesel explaining that “we’re going to see this goofy, adorable, Baby Groot [just] learn as he learns.”[23][24] Prop master Russell Bobbitt for filming. A 10-inch (25 cm) baby created a 1:1 scale model of Groot, to be used as a lighting reference and sometimes as a puppet for the actors to interact with. Since Groot only communicates with the words “I am Groot” in various inflections, Gunn created a “Groot version” of the script for himself and Diesel, containing every Groot line in English.[26] Diesel used a higher register of his voice for Baby Groot, which was pitched by seven to nine semitones depending on the take. He distributes the line slowly to avoid any time stretching problems. Diesel recorded Groot’s voice for sixteen foreign language releases (up from six in the first film). Sean Gunn provided on-set references for teenage Groot in the post-credits sequence.
Bradley Cooper as Rocket:
A member of the Guardians who is a genetically engineered raccoon-based bounty hunter, mercenary, and master of weapons and combat tactics. Sean Gunn once again served as a stand-in for the character during filming,[30] with Cooper’s performance also noted. Sean Gunn stated that “Rocket has the same crisis of faith [that he had in the first film] as to whether he belongs in this family”[31] with James Gunn adding, “It’s really about Rocket coming to terms with his place in a group of people, which is probably Seemed like a good idea” when they were the protagonists together at the end of the first film, but now “she’s not too comfortable with the idea”. Feige says that the relationship between Rocket and Groot has changed, saying, “Groot was Rocket’s protector in the first movie, [and now] Rocket is Groot’s protector.”
Michael Rooker as Yondu Udonta:
A blue-skinned buccaneer of the Ravagers who is a father figure to Quill and a member of the Guardians. He is also Ayesha’s former deputy. Yondu has a large head fin in the film, looking closer to his comic counterpart, and Rooker worked with the prosthetics department to add gaps to his prosthetic teeth, “just like real teeth”, to help him whistle, the character Rooker explained, for the sequel. , the song “people wanted to feel more deeply what Yondu was thinking and how he was feeling – a more serious Yondu.” Rooker noted the complicated relationship between Yondu and Quill where “we don’t agree on things…they’re constantly at each other’s throats [but] Yondu genuinely cares about this kid.” Gunn was reluctant to kill off Yondu in the film, but ultimately felt that “it’s a story of a father’s love for his son, his ultimate love, so much love that he sacrifices himself for it, and that’s Yondu. He’s 100 percent Peter Quill’s father, despite his ego. ” Quill’s biological father. Before the release of Vol. 2, Rooker spent time on the set of Avengers: Infinity War (2018) dispelling rumors that his character would not appear in that film because he would die in the film.
Karen Gillan as Nebula:
An adopted daughter of Thanos who grew up with Gamora as a sister and former enemy of the Guardians. Gillan said the film will further explore the sisterly relationship between Nebula and Gamora, including their backstories “and what happened to these two girls growing up and how horrible it actually was for them and how it ruined their relationship”, adding “we [ [Also] starting to see how much pain [Thanos] actually causes [Nebula]… we really start to see the emotional cracks in his character”. While Gillan had to shave his head for the first film, he only had to shave half of his head for the sequel, removing the bottom and keeping the top. Gillan’s makeup took two and a half hours to apply, down from five hours for the first film.
Pom Klementieff as Mantis:
A mantis-like creature and member of the Guardians with empathic powers who live with Ego. Executive producer Jonathan Schwartz said the character “has never really experienced social interaction”, and learns about “social complexities” from other parents. “He was really lonely and on his own, so it’s a whole new thing to meet these people and discover new things,” Klementeff added, comparing it to a child making awkward mistakes in social situations. Mantis and Drax have an “interesting” relationship in the film due to both being “complete oddballs”. Steve Englehart, co-creator of Mantis, was disappointed with the portrayal of the character, saying, “That character has nothing to do with Mantis… I really don’t know why you would take a character that is as unique as Mantis and make it a completely different character and still make her Mantis. call.”
Sylvester Stallone as Stalker Ogord:
A high-ranking Ravager who holds a grudge against Yondu. Stallone compared his character’s relationship with Yondu to a father-son relationship and called the confrontation between them in the film “pretty intense”. For Stalker’s acceptance of Yondu as a Ravager at the end of the film, Gunn asks Stallone to channel the line “That do, pig” from the film Babe. Gunn described Stacker as “very important to the Marvel Universe”, and stated that “it is our plan to see more of Stallone in future MCU films”, although he was unsure if this would include Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023).
Kurt Russell as Ego:
An ancient Celestial who is Quill’s father. Pratt was the first to suggest to Gunn that he consider Russell for the role; He portrays an incarnation of Ego that is seen more often in the comics in his “Living Planet” form. Seeing Pratt’s performance in the first film, Russell appreciated why he was asked for the role, feeling “that’s my kinda guy. I know where that kind of idiot comes from.” He added, “I brought the right things [from previous roles]… I connected the dots from some things I’ve done in the past.” And 20th Century Fox was allowed to use it in the film after reaching an agreement with Marvel Studios to modify the power set of the Negasonic Teenage Warhead, which Fox wanted to use in Deadpool (2016). Gunn originally thought that Marvel owned the rights to the character and said that, without a deal with Fox, “there was no back-up plan, and it was almost impossible to drop another character,” given that. Extensive work has been done around the character. For the film’s opening sequence, set in 1980 Missouri, Aaron Schwartz served as the face of young Ego.
Elizabeth Debicki appears as Aisha, the High Priestess of Gold and leader of the Sovereign People, a genetically engineered race that wants to be “golden and perfect and physically and mentally flawless”. Gunn was “very specific” when writing the character, and after casting director Sarah Finn suggested it to Debicki, Gunn “knew right away that she was the one”. The song highlights the actress’s beauty and height of 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m). Debicki wore platform shoes to increase his height to 6 feet 7 inches (2.01 m). Chris Sullivan portrays Taserface, the leader of a rebel group of Ravagers. Gunn originally posted a photo of the comic book character on his social media after landing Guardians of the Galaxy, calling him “the dumbest character of all time” and stating that he would not be portraying the character in any film. After ultimately deciding to use the character in the sequel, Gunn felt that the character named himself Taserface was “a real idiot”. Sullivan’s makeup takes two and a half to three and a half hours to apply each day. Sean Gunn is introduced as Kraglin Obfonteri, Yondu’s second-in-command in Ravagers. Kraglin has an expanded role compared to the previous film – Sean Gunn explains, “In the first film he was a lot of just saying yes and being by Yondu’s side, but in this movie things take a different turn as Kraglin has a bit of a crisis of conscience and has to decide if he’s with Yondu. Stay or join the growing ranks of rebels.”

Additionally, reprising their roles from the first film are Laura Haddock as Meredith Quill, Greg Henry as her father, Seth Green as the voice of Howard the Duck, and canine actor Fred as Cosmo. Members of Yondu’s Ravager crew include Evan Jones as Wretch, Jimmy Urine as Half-Nut, Stephen Blackheart as Brahl, Steve Agee as Jiff, Mike Escamilla as Scrott, Freya as Zoe Oblo, Terence Rosemore as Narblick, and Tommy Flanagan as Tullock. , as well as Charred Wall of the Damned drummer and Howard Stern Show personality Richard Christie in a cameo appearance. Other members of Stacker and Yondu’s old team based on the original incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy comics include Michael Rosenbaum as Martinex, Ving Rhames as Charlie-27, and Michelle Yeoh as Aleta Ogord. Also included in the team are the CG characters Kruger and Mainframe, the latter voiced by Miley Cyrus in an uncredited cameo. Rosenbaum previously auditioned to play Peter Quill in Vol. 1 Song cast Yeh because of his love of 1990s Hong Kong films, and Cyrus praised “the tone of her voice” when watching her as a coach on The Voice. He added that the team would return in future MCU films with Stallone’s Stalker.

Stan Lee appears as an informant to the Watchers, discussing previous adventures that include his cameos in other MCU films; He specifically mentions his time as a FedEx delivery man, which ties in with Lee’s cameo as a FedEx delivery man in Captain America: Civil War (2016). This acknowledges the fan theory that Lee may be portraying the same character in all of his cameos, with the song noting that “people thought Stan Lee was a Watcher, and all these cameos are part of him being a Watcher. So, Stan Lee as a guy for Watchers There was something I thought was fun for the MCU to work on.” Feige added that Lee “clearly exists, you know, above and beyond all of the film’s reality. So the idea that he might be sitting in a cosmic pit stop during the jump gate sequence in Guardians…really, so wait a minute, he Is this the same character who pops up in all these films?” Various versions of the scene Lee filmed, including an alternate where he references his role in Deadpool, may be the first acknowledgment of the X-Men film series by an MCU film. Gunn later admitted that the Civil War reference was a continuity error, given Vol. 2 Set before the events of Civil War, “I’m screwed; I wasn’t thinking. But I’m going to say that Stan Lee probably used the FedEx guy impersonation more than once.”
David Hasselhoff makes a cameo appearance as himself, while Ego looks like a shape-shifter, while Rob Zombie again has a Ravager voice cameo. Footage of Jeff Goldblum dancing as the Grandmaster from the set of Thor: Ragnarok (2017) is briefly used during the end credits, with Feige explaining that Marvel “thought it would be fun to put it in there” especially since the comic version of the Grandmaster is the brother of the Collector, who is in the first Guardians film. was present Ben Browder, star of the Farscape series, of which Gunn is an avid fan, cameos as a sovereign admiral. Molly Quinn appears as Howard the Duck’s date. Jim Gunn Sr. and Leota Gunn, James and Shawn Gunn’s parents, make a cameo appearance in the film as an older couple on Earth. Jimmy Kimmel Live!’s Guillermo Rodriguez made an uncredited cameo appearance as a police officer on Earth while the sap was terrorizing.

Box Office

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 US and Canada $389. 8 million dollars more and others more than $73.9 dollars, the world total is $863. 8 crores for The video preceded the release of the first video ($773 TV Greece) at Memorial Deck End, three weeks after release, with a final $783.3 worldwide goal, and a week later became the fifth-highest-grossing MCU video image. The Deadline Hollywood film netted $157, equal to effects, per participation, marketing, sentiment and other costs; Box office gross and domestic revenue placed it ninth in the list of “Most Valuable Blockbusters” of 2017.

Because tickets opened on April 24, 2017, the film was the number seller on Fandango, and the advance sales of Avenger: Age of Ultron (2015) in the same vein went offline. More than 80% of sales on MovieTicket.com happen before release. The volume in the United States and Canada is $ 146 in its one weekend. It grossed $2, with IMAX multiplying by $13. $17 from last night’s preview was 2017 per preview. With the film expected to top $160 in its opening weekend, Deadline Hollywood predicted Captain America: Civil could debut to $179. war It was number one in its second weekend and El Covenanter read the answer. Volume 2 had its weekend at number two, the answer to Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and grossed $337.6, edging out the first film’s earnings. In its fifth weekend, the video fell flat,[218] and subsequently, fell fifth. Volume 2 remained at 10 for two more weeks, taking ninth in the seventh weekend and eighth in the weekend.

In the US, Canada, the film achieved a $106 target in its opening weekend from 37 markets, excluding Portugal, Turkey and Vietnam, and leading media was the US. IMAX Five Weekends Total $5 Military Part. The film also aired throughout Belgium’s opening weekend worldwide. In its second weekend, the sequel opened as the top film in South Korea, China and Russia. It advertised for an MCU video in Austro, second in Australia ($11.8 million), the Netherlands ($500,00), Kolkata ($9.3), and the United Kingdom ($16.9) and third—in Serbia ($400,000), Italy ($1.4), and Russia ($11.6). . New Zealand and Landers openings were also behind 2017 for the country’s ideals, with the government and the UK second-highest. In South Korea, it had the 2017 biggest opening day ($3.3 million) and second-best park weekend grossing ($13. million), surpassing the latter country’s top grossing. It had the biggest video day of May and the number three day for an MCU film there. Ukraine had the second party opening, while in Puerto Rico, the film had the biggest IMAX opening. Getting their gross for more market volume. 2 has moved into the first film gross in its third weekend, China has its collection. See you next weekend. The US2 gross in the United States and Canada ($451.1) drove the first film’s gross ($440). dollars ($28).

About

Directed by	James Gunn
Written by	James Gunn
Based on	Guardians of the Galaxy by ·         Dan Abnett ·         Andy Lanning
Produced by	Kevin Feige
Starring	·         Chris Pratt ·         Zoe Saldaña ·         Dave Bautista ·         Vin Diesel ·         Bradley Cooper ·         Michael Rooker ·         Karen Gillan ·         Pom Klementieff ·         Sylvester Stallone ·         Kurt Russell
Cinematography	Henry Braham
Edited by	·         Fred Raskin ·         Craig Wood
Music by	Tyler Bates
Production company	Marvel Studios
Distributed by	Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Release dates	·         April 10, 2017 (Tokyo) ·         May 5, 2017 (United States)
Running time	136 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$200 million
Box office	$869.8 million