‘Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special’ Wraps Filming, Will Be Set Between ‘Love & Thunder’ and ‘Vol. 3’
James Gunn has officially announced that filming on the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy: Holiday Special wrapped over the weekend.
The Disney Plus event will air this Christmas on the streaming service, and according to the director, it will be set in between Thor: Love and Thunder and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. Love and Thunder will come out this July, while Vol. 3 will be released next May, so the release dates will match the chronological order of the stories.
The #GotGHolidaySpecial comes between Love & Thunder and #GotGVol3, with new stories & characters connected to the Guardians universe. https://t.co/DVoRDKaGkv
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) April 30, 2022
The director also announced that filming on the third Guardians of the Galaxy will wrap this week, exactly one year before the movie is set to be released theatrically:
We finished shooting the Holiday Special this week (out this Christmas). We finish shooting Vol 3 in about a week (out in May). https://t.co/iEnqLjB0dk pic.twitter.com/e3pynjv2YI
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) April 30, 2022
The third Guardians movie has been holding on to that May 5, 2023, release date for a long time. It was officially announced a year ago, and since then, Marvel Studios has shuffled its calendar several times, but Vol. 3 has never been touched. The most recent shift in the schedule happened last week when The Marvels was pushed back to July 2023 and Ant-Man 3 was moved up to February 2023, since the latter is in a more advanced state in its post-production process.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will be the last time the team hangs out together. Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Pom Klementieff, Sean Gunn, Karen Gillan, as well as Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper as the voices of Groot and Rocket, are all coming back, for both the movie and the Holiday Special. Expected to return in their roles from Vol. 2 are Elizabeth Debicki and Sylvester Stallone, too. Zoe Saldaña is also supposedly back, though there hasn’t been any official word on her yet, and she should not be expected in the Holiday Special. The movie could revolve around the search for Gamora, as we’ve been speculating since Endgame was released in theaters. Moreover, Chukwudi Iwuji (Peacemaker) in a currently unknown role plus Will Poulter as Adam Warlock will be introduced in the movie. A few leaked images from the set today also revealed the new comic-accurate costumes the team will be sporting this time around.
The Holiday Special will be released on Christmas on Disney Plus, and Vol. 3 will be released theatrically on May 5, 2023, if nothing changes.
Miguel Fernández is a Spanish student that has movies as his second passion in life. His favorite movie of all time is The Lord of the Rings, but he is also a huge Star Wars fan. However, fantasy movies are not his only cup of tea, as authors like Scorsese, Fincher, Kubrick or Hitchcock have been an obsession for him since he started to understand the language of filmmaking. He is that guy who will watch a black and white movie, just because it is in black and white.
