Chris Pratt’s Peter Quill and his cosmic rogues are back, with the latest trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 directed by James Gunn. Billed as the final movie in the Guardians franchise, it’s part of Phase 5 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “This is the end of that story. I’m sorry. Some stories have an end. It doesn’t mean everybody dies,” Gunn confirmed at 2022’s San Diego Comic-Con.
Set to Rainbow’s 1979 version of Since You Been Gone, the trailer shows Peter failing to get along with the time-displaced Gamora (Zoe Saldaña). He also tries flirting with her former baddy sister Nebula (Karen Gillan), which doesn’t seem to go down too well. The main villain, the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji) says he’s trying to “create the perfect society” in a stereotypical untrustworthy bad guy way. Some flashbacks suggest his torturous experiments transformed Rocket (Bradley Cooper) from an ordinary raccoon into a super-intelligent, human-like space mercenary.
Along with cast members Pratt, Saldaña, Iwuji, and Cooper, we find Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, Vin Diesel as Groot, Pom Klementieff as Mantis, Sean Gunn as Kraglin, Sylvester Stallone as Stakar Ogord, and Elizabeth Debicki as Ayesha. Franchise newcomers consist of Will Poulter as Adam Warlock, and Maria Bakalova as Cosmo the Spacedog, who was introduced in the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. The 32nd MCU movie hits theaters on May 5th.
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