That has changed today thanks to the big slate of announcements during Disney’s big Investor’s Day presentation, as it was not only confirmed that we will get to see the Marvel movie hit theaters in 2023, but also that Gunn is working on a couple of related side projects that should seriously excite fans.
While Guardians of the Galaxy stood as one of the great pillars of the Marvel Cinematic Universe for a number of years, it has more recently been planted in shaky ground.
As a result, for the last couple of years we’ve known that the sequel is coming, but the answer to “when?” has eluded us.
In the summer of 2018 a minor scandal resulted in writer/director James Gunn being fired and then rehired for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, and the time spent dealing with the situation wound up putting the project off of its schedule.