What Gunn is promising with the new Guardians of the Galaxy is a far more fundamental embrace of the genre, something much more in keeping with, say, Ant-Man’s relationship with heist pictures.
And we had that moment where they [went], “We are Groot,” so what’s our “we are Groot” moment [this time]?
While taking pains to stress that the sequel is still a space fantasy (“They still have jetpacks,” Gunn says.
The emotion works on a deeper level, which is probably the most important to me, frankly.