At the occasion, James Gunn is wearing two hats – and by any standard, they’re particularly wide-brimmed ones. Towards the finish of 2022, he was confirmed to be running the newly-reorganized DC Films alongside Peter Safran, cooking up an entirely different slate for the comics giant. Yet, before that really kicks into gear, he has the small matter of finishing up his hotly anticipated threequel, Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 – a film that looks set to wrap into his near-decade of creating cosmic comic book movies at Marvel.
Speaking to Empire in the Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania issue, Gunn describes the final stretch of Guardians Vol. 3 as “my day job” – while the early stages of planning a new batch of comic book movies at DC Studios is, for now, “an extremely healthy part-time work that’s at least another 40 to 60 hours a week”. Closing out Vol. 3 will destroy an era for the writer-director – and while that brings bittersweetness, it appears Gunn is confident that his time working with the cast who rejuvenated Marvel’s intergalactic A-openings isn’t over. “This cast is like my family,” he says. “I cannot perceive you that I am so near Chris Pratt and Pom [Klementieff] and Dave [Bautista] and Zoe [Saldaña] and Karen [Gillan]. Yet, I also realize I will work again with all those people individually again.” He adds, laughing: “Probably at my other job.”
For now, Gunn has several months left before Guardians Vol. 3 wraps up the story of Peter Quill and co – and it’s as of now obscure exactly when his DC slate will be unveiled. Either way, it’s going to be an especially significant year for comic book cinema, on both sides.
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