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Guardians 3 Trailer
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Marvel have released the trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3.

While more Guardians films might be made, this will be James Gunn's final Marvel film - he's in the captain's chair over at DC now - and probably also the end for this group of characters.

The trailer really sells this as being the end.

We enjoyed the first two volumes and regard them as some of Marvel's best so would love to see this trilogy end on good note.

Even if that note is sad or tragic.

Our hopes for The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special were sadly dashed.

Promos made it seem like a unique Guardians take on Christmas, but the reality is it's typical Christmas schmaltz with a light Guardians coating.

Many people enjoy Christmas schmaltz which is why there's so much of it and on Rotten Tomatoes 83% of the fewer than a thousand (which is low) people who rated, enjoyed it.

But we did not.

James recently revealed that he wrote the holiday special in a few hours and everything about it was effortless.

Which we can believe.

If you've ever seen any Christmas schmaltz the special will feel incredibly familiar.

A perfectly fine example but if you're not into that sort of thing, skip worthy.

The film was torture for him.

I’ll be honest, I wrote the screenplay in a few hours, so it just kind of spilled out of me. It was very easy,” Gunn tells The Hollywood Reporter. “Everything about shooting it was easy. Everything about getting the performances out of people was easy, whereas Vol. 3 was torture in every way.”

We're not sadists, truly, but if James' suffering is what produces gems like Volumes 1 and 2, we might allow ourselves to feel slightly good about his having suffered for the third.

The Guardian's of the Galaxy Holiday Special is streaming now on Disney+.

Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 touches down in Australian cinemas on May 4, 2023.

[ Main Image: Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 trailer - Zoe Saldana. Credit: Marvel via YouTube. ]

References

Davids, Bryan (November 18, 2022). James Gunn Talks Writing ‘The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special’ in Just a Few Hours and the Latest on His Final ‘Guardians’ Film. The Hollywood Reporter.

Marvel Entertainment (December 2, 2022). Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 3 | Official Trailer. YouTube.

Rotten Tomatoes. The Guardian's of the Galaxy Holiday Special. (viewed December 2, 2022)