Marvel has released multiple new posters for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and they’re all pretty unique. Shared on the movie’s official Twitter account and elsewhere, the posters put a focus on the different ways fans can watch the new film, including on IMAX, Real D 3D, and 4DX.
These posters are being released just as tickets for the highly anticipated MCU movie go on sale at Fandango and other ticket providers.
Beyond the format-specific posters, another one heralds the May 3 marathon event where all three films will screen back-to-back, wrapping up with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 a full two days before its wider release. You can see the posters in the image gallery below.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the third and final entry in the trilogy that began in 2014. Vol. 2 arrived in 2017, and Vol. 3 is coming May 5, 2023. The third movie is expected to bring the current story to a close and put a focus on Rocket Raccoon.
Dolby’s own poster shows a close-up of Rocket’s eye, with a tear leaking out, as the reflection of his Guardians colleagues shines back. The movie’s first trailer focused a lot on Rocket, featuring a flashback shot of him as a baby raccoon and another very sad sequence. Rocket looks beat up and sad, when he says, “We’ll all fly away together, one last time.” It appears Vol. 3 will make us all cry over a talking raccoon.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the next MCU film following February’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, which did not exactly light up the box office by Marvel’s standards. It made nearly $500 million, making it one of the worst-performing MCU films to date by box office numbers.
Writer-director James Gunn has said that Rocket, who is voiced by Bradley Cooper, is a very important character in the series.
He told Entertainment Weekly (via TheDirect) that, at the onset of the Guardians series, he felt it might be “stupid” to include a talking raccoon in the franchise, as it could come across like “Bugs Bunny in the middle of the Avengers.” But he stuck with the idea and he later had an epiphany of sorts.
“I was driving home, and all of a sudden, I was like ‘Well, okay. Let’s say there is a talking raccoon, where does he come from?’ And I realized that, to tell the story honestly, he’s the saddest person or character in the universe, and that he was unlike anybody else and he was created in this horrible way, and we’re gonna learn a little bit about him as the story goes on,” Gunn said. “And then this film tells that story along with that family that he’s created along the way, and the jerky father he has back there.”
For more, check out the trailer above and a breakdown of who’s who in the gallery below. The movie is expected to bring about an end to the current iteration of the Guardians of the Galaxy, but of course Marvel could continue the series with a new cast later on if it chose to.
Gunn, meanwhile, has switched teams and now is the co-head of DC Studios. Alongside Peter Safran, the pair recently announced a huge slate of new DC films and TV series.
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