Actor Dave Bautista has maintained he’d leave his role if Gunn’s draft wasn’t used, so there’s a ton of balls in the air for the fan favorite property.
So once James Gunn was suddenly fired by Disney, it seemed like the Guardians franchise might be dead.
The director has also recently finished his first draft of Guardians 3’s script, and it’s unclear if that will be used to develop the threequel.
After all, how could it possibly function without Gunn?