There is little doubt that people are looking forward to Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 in anticipation of Rocket Raccoon's origin story. However, fans are also expecting other content like post-credits scenes and deleted scenes. But James Gunn claims the upcoming sequel doesn't have any deleted scenes and there is a good reason for that.
James Gunn recently spoke to Collider about Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and he addressed the idea of extra content in the sequel's home release. Interestingly, the Suicide Squad director claims that the Guardians films don't have a lot of deleted scenes.
"The thing for me is, I work hard to not have deleted scenes," he said. Gunn then explained that he had a lot of time to work on Vol. 3 and was able to cut out unnecessary moments before they began production.
"This movie probably has the fewest deleted scenes because it was pretty tight. I worked on this screenplay, for a lot of reasons, way longer than I worked on the other screenplays," he said. "The screenplay took me way longer to write than both the first two movies, so, it was pretty worked out by the time we got to soundstage."
Gunn continued by stating that even the first two Guardians films did not have many deleted scenes.
"You know, we were going through the deleted scenes the other day because we start to put those together for when the movie is eventually released on home video and all that, and there's not really that many deleted scenes," he said.
"There's two? There's lots of fat, like a lot of it was just cutting fat and making it move faster and more succinctly, but it's more about speeding it up. So there's extended scenes more than deleted scenes," Gunn concluded.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will premiere in theaters on May 5, 2023.
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