Back in June,production wrappedon Marvel’s highly-anticipated Phase 3 sequelGuardians of the Galaxy 2, which is set to kick off the summer movie season on June 24, 2025. As is the case with most big-budget productions, reshoots are to be expected, and todayGuardians 2starKaren Gillanrevealed through social media that she is going back to work on this superhero sequel. It hasn’t been confirmed how long these reshoots will last, or where they are taking place, but the bulk of principal photography happened in Atlanta earlier this year.
Karen Gillan, who reprises her role asNebulafromGuardians of the Galaxy, revealed this latest news on herTwitter, stating that she’s “so excited to be back with the gang”. She also hinted through two long hashtags that these will be the “easiest reshoots ever,” because “The movie is already insanely good”. It isn’t known at this time who else was brought back for reshoots.
This news comes just hours after we learned that one of the most important characters in this sequel, Ego the Living Planet (Kurt Russell) almost wasn’t in the movie. During a Q&A session,DeadpoolwriterRhett Reeserevealed that 20th Century Fox let go of the Ego rights as part of a trade with Marvel Studios, to allow Fox to change the Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildenbrand) character forDeadpool. DirectorJames Gunnconfirmed this story is true in a Facebook post today, saying he actually thought that Marvel owned the rights to Ego, before finding out that wasn’t the case.
“Yes, this is true! When I first pitched Ego as Quill’s father, I THOUGHT we owned the character. After I had worked out a very elaborate story withEgo the Living Planetas a very important part of the Marvel cosmic universe, I learned that we actually didn’t own the character. I had no back up plan, and it would be nearly impossible to just drop another character in. Thank God Fox came to us and wanted to make a trade…”
The director didn’t mention anything on social media about reshoots today, but perhaps we’ll get more updates soon as the additional photography takes shape.Guardians of the GalaxystarsChris Pratt(Star-Lord),Dave Bautista(Drax the Destroyer),Zoe Saldana(Gamora),Vin Diesel(Groot) andBradley Cooper(Rocket Raccoon) all return along withKaren Gillan,Michael Rooker(Yondu) andSean Gunn(Kraglin), along with a slew of new characters.Pom Klementieffmakes her MCU debut as Mantis, alongsideElizabeth Debickias Ayesha,Chris Sullivanas Taserface andTommy Flanaganas Tullik. Take a look atKaren Gillan’s tweet below, along with another tweet fromJames Gunnfurther explaining theGuardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2character trade between Marvel Studios and 20th Century Fox.
