Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (stylized in marketing as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3) is a 2023 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 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), and the 32nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Written and directed by James Gunn, it features an ensemble cast including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Will Poulter, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Yuji, Linda Cardellini, Nathan Filone, and more. Sylvester Stallone. In the film, the Guardians must protect Rocket (Cooper) from the High Evolutionary (UG).
Gunn said in November 2014 that he had early ideas for a third and final film in the series, and announced his return to writing and directing in April 2017. Disney fired him from the film in July 2018 after controversial posts on Twitter resurfaced, but the studio reversed course and reinstated him that October. Gunn’s return was publicly revealed in March 2019, resuming production after DC finished work on the first season of The Suicide Squad (2021) and its spin-off series Peacemaker (2022). Filming began in November 2021 at Trilith Studios in Atlanta, Georgia and continued until May 2022.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 premiered at Disneyland Paris on April 22, 2023, and was released in the United States on May 5 as part of Phase Five of the MCU. Like its predecessors, it was a critical and commercial success. The film was praised for its song direction and screenplay, its visuals, soundtrack, acting, action sequences, emotional weight and humor; Many consider the film to be a satisfying conclusion to the trilogy. It grossed over $845 million worldwide, becoming the fourth-highest-grossing film of 2023.

Details

At their new headquarters in Nowhere, [a] the Guardians of the Galaxy are attacked by Adam Warlock, a sovereign warrior created by High Priestess Aisha, who seeks to destroy them for stealing from her.[b] After seriously injuring Rocket, by Adam Nebula Stabbed, and ran away. The Guardians’ med-packs are useless in healing Rocket’s wounds, which contain a kill switch embedded by Orgocorp, a company run by Rocket’s creator, the High Evolutionary. The Guardians travel to Orgocorp’s headquarters to find the switch’s override code and save Rocket’s life.
As Rocket lays unconscious, he remembers his past. As a child, he was experimented on by the High Evolutionary, who sought to improve and anthropomorphize animal life to create an ideal society called Counter-Earth. Rocket befriended his fellow Batch 89 test subjects: Otter Lila, Walrus Tiffs and Rabbit Flor. The High Evolutionary was impressed by Rocket’s growing intelligence but became enraged once it surpassed his own intelligence. The High Evolutionary used Rocket to perfect his human creation, then planned to harvest Rocket’s brain for further research and to eliminate the obsolete Batch 89. Rocket freed his friends, but killed the High Evolutionary Leela. Enraged, Rocket attacks the High Evolutionary, whose henchmen kill Tiffs and Flor in the ensuing firefight. Rocket eventually escapes from Counter-Earth in a spaceship.
Currently, the Ravagers, along with an alternate version of Gamora, [c] help the Guardians infiltrate Orgocorp. They retrieve Rocket’s file but discover that the code has been removed, the likely culprit being Thiel, one of High Evolutionary’s advisors. The Guardians, including Gamora, head to Counter-Earth to find him. They follow Aisha and Adam after the creator of their race, the High Evolutionary, threatening to wipe out the Sovereign if they fail to retrieve the rocket. The Guardians arrive on Counter-Earth and are directed to the Arête Laboratories complex. Drax and Mantis stay with Gamora and Rocket while Peter Quill, Groot and Nebula go to Ares. As Quill and Groot enter the arena, Nebula is forced to wait outside by guards, while Drax persuades Mantis to follow Quill’s group. Gamora saves Rocket from being captured by Adam and the High Evolutionary’s guard, War Pig.
Questioned by Quill, the High Evolutionary admits to disillusionment with Counter-Earth’s imperfect society, so he destroys the planet, killing Aisha as well as mankind. The Arete departs as a spaceship, boarding Nebula, Drax, and Mantis to rescue Quill and Groot, who in turn flee to the Arete with Thiel, whom they kill, before retrieving the code from his corpse and Gamora rescuing them aboard. As Quill’s group uses the code, Rocket flatlines and has a near-death experience, where he reunites with Lila, Tiffs, and Flor. He learns from Leela that his time has not yet come, as Quill uses the code to disable the kill switch and restart Rocket’s heart.
Arey encounters several genetically modified human children before being caught by Drax, Nebula, and Mantis. The other Guardians conduct a rescue mission, leading to a battle against the High Evolutionary forces. Kraglin fires on Arete Nowhere, destroying Arete, then helps save the citizens of Nowhere from a counterattack by the High Evolutionary’s Hellspawn. Intending to retreat, the High Evolutionaries revolt only to be killed by their leader. Drax, Nebula, and Mantis befriend the three monstrous Abelisks to escape and reunite with Quill’s group. The Guardians delay leaving Arey, choosing to rescue the Star Children, who escape to Nowhere through a tunnel created by Cosmo’s telekinesis. Rocket discovers the creatures trapped on the ship before encountering the High Evolutionaries, who defeat the other Guardians. Rocket frees the High Evolutionary[d], and the Guardians help the animals escape to Nowhere. Quill almost dies trying to cross over, but is saved by Adam, who has a change of heart when Groot saves him from Arete.
Later, Quill decides to leave the Guardians, naming Rocket as Captain, and travels to Earth to reunite with his grandfather Jason. Mantis embarks on a journey of self-discovery with the Abelisks, Gamora reunites with the Ravagers, and Nebula and Drax stay in Nowhere to raise the rescued children.
In a mid-credits scene, the new Guardians, consisting of Rocket, Groot, Kraglin, Cosmo, Adam, Phila (one of the rescued Star Children), and Adam’s pet Blurp, embark on a new mission.

Cast and characters

Chris Pratt as Peter Quill / Star-Lord:
The half-human, half-Celestial leader of the Guardians of the Galaxy who was abducted from Earth as a child and raised by a group of alien thieves and smugglers. In the film, Quill is “in a state of despair” after the appearance of a form of his dead lover Gamora, who does not share the same affection for Quill as the older version of him, affecting his leadership. Guardians
Zoe Saldana as Gamora:
An orphan who seeks redemption for his past crimes, and is adopted and trained by Thanos as his personal assassin. The original version of Gamora, a member of the Guardians, killed Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War (2018), and an alternate version of the character appeared in Avengers: Endgame (2019); Saldana reprized the role later in the film, now serving as a member of the Ravagers. Saldana says that Vol. 3 would be the final time she would play Gamora, noting that she was originally contracted to play her in one film and ended up playing the role for much longer, a role she was grateful to play because of its impact on female fans in particular.
Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer:
A member of the Guardians and a highly skilled warrior whose family was killed by Ronan the Accused on the orders of Thanos. Bautista stated that Vol. 3 would be the final time he would play Drax, was grateful for the role, though still called it a “relief” to end his time with the character, requiring longer makeup and hoping for more drama to follow. Role playing. Due to Bautista’s decision, Gunn decided not to include Drax in the post-credits scene.
Karen Gillan as Nebula:
A member of the Guardians, a former Avenger, and Gamora’s adopted sister, who, like her, trained their adoptive father Thanos to be his personal assassin. Gillan believed that Nebula was becoming a “slightly different person” as she began to heal mentally after the death of Thanos, the source of her abuse and pain. Volume 3 began work on Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) when writer and director James Gunn filled in a character arc for the character, going from a minor villain to a member of the Guardians. Although the film teases a possible romance between Star-Lord and Nebula, Gunn denies that the two could become a couple, although Gillan believes he harbors a minor crush on Quill.
Pom Klementieff as Mantis: A member of the Guardians with empathic powers and Quill’s half-sister.
Vin Diesel as voice of Groot: A member of the Guardians who is humanoid like a tree and an ally of Rocket. Austin Freeman provided motion-capture for Groot.
Bradley Cooper as Rocket:
A member of the Guardians and a former Avenger who is a genetically engineered raccoon-based bounty hunter and a master of weapons and military tactics. Gunn said the film tells the story of Rocket, including his background and how he relates to the other Guardians, including “where he’s going,” and the ending of this iteration of the team. The film completes a character arc that was established in Guardians of the Galaxy and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), and continued in Infinity War and Endgame. Sean Gunn once again provided set motion capture for the character, as well as voicing the young Rocket. Cooper also voices Teenage Rocket and Noah Raskin voices Baby Rocket.
Will Poulter as Adam Warlock:
A powerful artifact is being created by the Sovereign to destroy the Guardians. Given the Warlock, newly born from the Sovereign’s cocoon, he is “basically a child” who “doesn’t understand life very well”. Poulter believed there was “a lot of comedy” in someone just entering the world for the first time and “trying to develop his moral compass”, as well as “some real pathos”. Gunn thought Warlock’s interactions with the Guardians provided “an interesting addition” to their journey and described him as a more traditional superhero than the Guardians, though not necessarily a hero.
Sean Gunn as Kraglin: A member of the Guardians and Yondu Udonta’s former second-in-command in the Ravager.
Chukwudi Ivuji as High Evolutionary:
An alien cyborg scientist and CEO of OrgoCorp specializing in the creation of hybrid animals and creator of rockets, trying to force all living beings into a “special race” where he is credited with creating Anime, Hanimals, the Hellspawn, Sovereign. Geronians, and Star Children. Iwuji described the character as “narcissistic, sociopathic, but very charming”, adding that “there was something very Shakespearean about him, something very emotionally dark about him, and on top of that he was very funny”. To prepare for the role, Iugi listened to his character’s taste for classical music as opposed to the American rock and pop music songs played in the film, allowing Iugi to return to his favorite arias and operas, such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. (1786) and Don Giovanni (1787). Gunn compared High Evolutionary to “a space version” of Doctor Moreau in Island of Lost Souls (1932), a big fan of Gunn, calling him “a despicable character”. When asked by Extra’s Rachel Lindsay about the character, Gunn referred to the High Evolutionary as “the cruelest MCU villain” the franchise has seen to date, with how he negatively affects the lives of Rocket and his fellow friends, though IUGi confirmed with Gunn that to avoid giving the Evolutionary, at least Deliberately, the focus under Song’s command is on the character’s single-minded, narcissistic and zealous personality, with comments such as “the scariest” in contrast to previous villains like Thanos or Killmonger. Statistics are shown in history.
Linda Cardellini as Lila: An anthropomorphic otter who is Rocket’s ally and friend. Cardellini provided both voice and motion capture for Leela, previously portrayed by Laura Burton in MCU media.
Nathan Fillion as Master Karja: An Orgocentry of OrgoCorp.
Sylvester Stallone as Stalker Ogord: A high-ranking Ravager.
Elizabeth Debicki as Aisha, reprising their respective roles from the previous Guardians film and/or The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022), the Gold High Priestess and leader of the sovereign people that Adam Warlock created to destroy the Guardians; Michael Rosenbaum as Martinex, a high-ranking Ravager; nowhere; Maria Bakalova reprized her voice and motion capture role from the Holiday Special as Cosmo, a member of the Guardians who is an intelligent dog who develops psychic abilities after being abandoned in outer space by the Soviet Union. Gunn changes Cosmo’s gender from male, as depicted in the comics, to female for the film, based on the character’s main inspiration, Laika, a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space. Cosmo was physically portrayed by dog actor Slate, also after doing so for the Holiday Special, and was previously portrayed by dog actor Fred in the first two Guardians films. Tara Strong (who voiced Miss Minute in the Disney+ series Loki) voiced Mainframe who previously Vol. This is voiced by an uncredited Miley Cyrus. Jared Gore provides motion capture for Krueger, a Ravager who has magical powers and speaks through his magic.
Asim Chaudhary voices Tiffs, an anthropomorphic walrus; Mikaela Hoover (who played Nova Prime’s assistant in the first film) voices Flor, an anthropomorphic rabbit; Daniela appears as Melchior Ura, the receptionist at Orgocorp; Miriam Shore and Nico Santos Recorder Vim and Recorder Thiel, respectively, are scientifically-minded henchmen of high evolution; Jennifer Holland appears as Administrator Kwol, a security employee at Orgocorp; Kai Zen appears as Phyla, one of the High Evolutionary’s Star Child prisoners; Faberlle voices Behemoth, a cyborg bird and member of the Hell Spawns who work for Higher Evolution; ] and Dan Deligro appeared on Counter-Earth as a humanoid octopus drug dealer (credited as “The Unsavvy Octopus”).
Cameos in the film include Lloyd Kaufman as Griddlemop, a Crylorian from Nowhere who takes part in a card game with Kraglin; Pete Davidson as Phlektik, a guard at Arête Laboratories; And as the voice of writer and director James Gunn Lambshank, a warped experiment in high evolution is among those unleashed by Guardians of the Galaxy.

Box Office

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 grossed $359 million in the United States and Canada and $486.6 million in other territories, for a worldwide total of $845.6 million.
In the United States and Canada, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 was estimated to gross around $110 million from 4,450 theaters in its opening weekend. The film grossed $48.2 million on its opening day, including $17.5 million from Thursday night previews. It debuted with $118.4 million, topping the box office. In its second weekend, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 held the top spot at the box office with $62 million, a 48% drop from its opening weekend and the best second-weekend hold of any sequel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and a significantly lower second-weekend than recent releases from smaller franchises, including Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantummania (70%), Thor: Love and Thunder (68%), and Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (67%). The film grossed $32 million in its third weekend, being dethroned by Fast X .
Outside the United States and Canada, the film grossed $168.1 million in its opening weekend. In its second weekend, the film grossed $92 million, down 40% from its opening weekend. As of May 27, 2023, the top grossing regions were China ($77.4 million), United Kingdom ($36 million), Mexico ($30.8 million), South Korea ($26.7 million), and France ($24.3 million).

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