Before Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 was released in theaters, there was a lot of speculation as to whether or not James Gunn would return to direct vol. 3 in the trilogy. Luckily for us, he announced soon after the movie was previewed for critics that he would, in fact, return to write and direct vol. 3, but why was there any hesitation about doing this for him in the first place? Gunn has finally opened up about why, and what he told fans explains why he waited until after the movie was released to talk about it. If you haven't figured it out yet, there are ***MAJOR SPOILERS!!!*** that deal with Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 2 in the next several paragraphs!
Still with me? Okay, good. We're jumping right into the spoilers here, due to the fact that it deals directly with why Gunn was hesitant about returning for vol. 3. The reason was that he wasn't sure if he wanted to helm the movie was because of his decision to kill off Michael Rooker's character Yondu. Rooker and Gunn have an amazing working relationship, having done several movies together, and Yondu's death was weighing heavily on him. Here's what he had to say in a video he put out for fans:
"Let me tell you, there was nothing harder for me than the choice to kill Yondu in this movie. Michael Rooker, for all the crap I give him, is one of my closest friends in the world and the last thing I wanted to do was to make a movie without Michael Rooker in the future. I almost didn’t do Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 because there was no Michael Rooker in it and I couldn’t see making the movie without him. He means that much to me and I love him that much."
While writing the film, he even tried multiple drafts where Yondu didn't die, but it never really worked out for the story.
"[Killing Yondu was] the hardest choice I’ve ever had to make from a storytelling perspective. I wrote a bunch of treatments where Yondu did not die. There were other endings — he was saved at the last minute after taking the sacrificial stance, and I wrote many drafts like that. And I realized I was being dishonest. That was not what this story was. For me, the most important thing in making a movie is to tell the truest and most honest story possible, and that’s whether you’re making a $500,000 indie film or a $200 million dollar spectacle film. And the truth of this story, this was about a father’s true and ultimate love for his son. This is a movie about, Who really are our fathers? Who really are our siblings? And the only way for it to be an honest story was for Yondu to die, and anything else would have been half measures, and would have been me backing out because I was afraid to tell the truth. And so that’s why Yondu dies."
Just because he dies in this movie, though, doesn't mean that we won't see him in vol. 3. He could return in character in a flashback, or even appear as a CGI character like Nathan Fillion did in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Either way, it would keep their working steak in tact. Think "Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell". Luckily for us, Gunn will see the trilogy through to it's conclusion, which is nothing but great for all of us fans.
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