BEHIND THE SCENES!!: VOL. 3 PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Bisco Hatori | 192 pages | 09 Feb 2017 | Viz Media, Subs. of Shogakukan Inc | 9781421590493 | English | San Francisco, United States Quentin Tarantino: ‘Kill Bill Vol. 3’ Is At Least Three Years Away | IndieWire In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. The film was officially announced at the San Diego Comic-Con International before the theatrical release of the first film, along with James Gunn's return from the first film, with the title of the sequel revealed a year later in June Principal photography began in February at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia , with many crew changes from the first film due to other commitments. Filming concluded in June James Gunn chose to set the sequel shortly after the first film to explore the characters' new roles as the Guardians, and to follow the storyline of Quill's father established throughout that previous film. Russell was confirmed as Quill's father in July , portraying Ego, a departure from Quill's comic father. The film received praise for its visuals, direction, soundtrack, humor, and performances particularly those of Rooker and Russell , though some critics deemed it inferior to the original. A sequel, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Ayesha , leader of the Sovereign race, has the Guardians protect valuable batteries from an inter-dimensional monster in exchange for Gamora's estranged sister Nebula , who was caught attempting to steal the batteries. After Rocket steals the batteries for himself, the Sovereign attacks the Guardians' ship with a fleet of drones. The drones are destroyed by a mysterious figure, and the Guardians crash-land on a nearby planet. There, this figure reveals himself as Quill's father, Ego , and invites Quill, Gamora, and Drax to his home planet. Rocket and Groot remain behind to repair the ship and guard Nebula. Meanwhile, Ayesha hires Yondu Udonta and his crew, who have been exiled from the greater Ravager community for child trafficking , to recapture the Guardians. They capture Rocket, but when Yondu hesitates to turn over Quill, whom he raised, his assistant Kraglin Obfonteri questions his objectivity, and his lieutenant Taserface leads a mutiny with help from Nebula. Taserface imprisons Rocket and Yondu aboard the latter's ship, and executes his loyalists by releasing them into space. Nebula leaves to find and kill Gamora, whom she blames for the torture inflicted on her by their father, Thanos. While imprisoned, Rocket and Yondu bond. Groot and Kraglin, the latter having never intended to start the mutiny, free Rocket and Yondu, and they destroy the ship and its crew as they escape, but Taserface warns the Sovereign before dying. Ego, a god-like Celestial that manipulated the matter around its consciousness to form this "home" planet, explains that he projected a humanoid guise to travel the universe and discover a purpose, eventually falling in love with Quill's mother Meredith. Ego hired Yondu to collect the young Quill after Meredith's death, but the boy was never delivered, and Ego has been searching for him ever since. He teaches Quill to manipulate the Celestial power. Nebula arrives at Ego's planet and tries to kill Gamora, but the pair reach an uneasy alliance when they discover a cavern filled with skeletal remains. Ego reveals to Quill that in his travels, he planted seedlings on thousands of worlds that can terraform into new extensions of himself, but they can only be activated by the power of two Celestials. To that end, he impregnated countless women and hired Yondu to collect the children, but killed them all when they failed to access the Celestial power. Under Ego's influence, Quill helps him activate the seedlings, which begin to consume every world, but Quill fights back when Ego reveals that he gave Meredith the tumor that killed her due to the distraction she posed. The reunited Guardians find Ego's brain at the planet's core, as they come under attack from the Sovereign's drones. Rocket makes a bomb using the stolen batteries, which Groot plants on the brain. Quill fights Ego with his newfound Celestial powers to distract him long enough for the other Guardians and Mantis to escape. The bomb explodes, killing Ego and disintegrating the planet. Quill loses his Celestial powers soon after Ego's death. Yondu sacrifices himself to save Quill and dies in the vacuum of space. Meanwhile, Quill realizes that the reason Yondu kept him was to spare him from the fate of Ego's other progeny. Having reconciled with Gamora, Nebula still chooses to leave and resume her quest to kill Thanos by herself. The Guardians hold a funeral for Yondu, which is attended by Kraglin and dozens of Ravager ships, acknowledging Yondu's sacrifice and accepting him as a Ravager again. In a series of mid- and post-credit scenes , Kraglin takes up Yondu's telekinetic arrow and control-fin; Ravager leader Stakar Ogord reunites with his ex-teammates; Groot has grown into a teenager; [N 1] Ayesha creates a new artificial being with whom she plans to destroy the Guardians, naming him Adam; [N 2] and a group of uninterested Watchers abandon their informant, who is discussing his experiences on Earth. Stan Lee appears as an informant to the Watchers , discussing previous adventures that include his cameos in other MCU films; he specifically mentions his time as a FedEx delivery man, referring to Lee's cameo in Captain America: Civil War So the notion that he could be sitting there on a cosmic pit stop during the jump gate sequence in Guardians David Hasselhoff makes a cameo appearance as himself, when Ego shape-shifts to his likeness, [11] while Rob Zombie once again has a Ravager voice cameo. Gunn had begun work on the film within a month, and said it would include at least one new Guardian from the comics. I've never been told to put in any character or plot element at all When they trust you they give you a wide berth In May, Gunn said the sequel would feature fewer characters than the first film, and that he had planned to introduce two major new characters in the script—Mantis and Adam Warlock. I think we did something really creative and unique with Adam Warlock. But it was one character too many and I didn't want to lose Mantis and Mantis was more organically part of the movie anyway. By including the scene, Gunn promised Marvel he would use his social media presence to clarify for fans that the character would not be seen in either of the Avengers films. After the film's announcement, Gunn said he knew "a lot of where I want to go [in the sequel]", [97] having written the backstory of Peter Quill, his father, and his history with Yondu during the making of the first film with the intention of exploring them in a future film. That serves the entire movie-going audience and not just the handful of Nova [and Carol Danvers] fans. Feige said exploring Quill's father "would certainly be part of a next Guardians adventure", adding "I think there's a reason we seeded it at the very end of the [first] film like that. Thanos is not the most important thing in Guardians 2 , that's for damn sure. There's the Guardians themselves and other threats the Guardians are going to be facing that are not Thanos. I think it's really about the Guardians and what they are doing. Gunn set the film two to three months after the first film [95] [] "because he felt the group are just such fragile egos and he didn't think this story could start years later. Feige also stated two or three other worlds would be seen, as well as "a little bit of Earth in this film, but it's not these characters going to Earth. I'm excited about it. He described it as "not really based on anything" from the comics, being mainly an original story. On June 2, , Gunn announced on social media that he had completed the first draft of the screenplay, and that the film's title would not simply be Guardians of the Galaxy 2. But because 'Guardians of the Galaxy' is already so wordy, it seemed strange to add another bunch of words after it. I liked Vol. McConaughey felt he would have been "an amendment" in Vol. Reilly about him reprising his role as Nova Corpsman Rhomann Dey , [] while Kurt Russell entered early talks to play Quill's father. Prop master Russell Bobbitt had difficulty finding the cassette decks that had been used in the first film, and all of the Sony Walkman headsets they sourced for the sequel were broken. Bobbitt eventually created six from scratch for Vol. Other props he created for the film included two sets of blasters for Quill, with removable blaster cartridges, and "steampunk-looking weapons and belts" for the Ravagers; [23] Bobbitt explained that four different weapons were designed for the latter group, and then 15—20 versions of those were produced to be used by the various Ravager actors there could be up to 85—95 Ravagers per scene. For their belts, the props team cut the leather themselves rather than buying existing belts, and then parts from different electronic devices such as radios and cell phones were glued together to make each belt "a unique piece of art". The prop department also made edible props for certain scenes: a prop of a stinkbug -inspired insect was made from chocolate and injected with black honey so it could be eaten on screen and "when he bit down the honey poured out of his mouth"; similarly, a "yarrow root" was designed based on enlarged images of pollen, and then created with non-dairy white chocolate to be eaten onscreen.