James Gunn dishes on 'Guardians of the Galaxy' movie, Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon, Vin Diesel as Groot and more

Last week, Kevin Pereira of the Pointless podcast released a portion of his interview with director James Gunn, who helms Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy. Now, the full podcast has been released, and Gunn unloads plenty of information on Bradley Cooper as Rocket Raccoon, Vin Diesel as Groot and much more.

Firstly, Gunn (who says he wanted to do a Hit Monkey movie with Marvel) discusses Rocket, who could become a fan favorite in the movie.

"Rocket is a result of countless and cruel, illegal genetic experiments, where he's been turned--from an innocent little creature, where he has an IQ of three, and he becomes this thing that's completely alone; this gnarled little beast," he said (via Comic Book Movie). "He's pretty sad."

As for Groot, who can only utter the words "I am Groot," Gunn praised Vin Diesel's numerous deliveries of the line. He also added that the crew videotaped both he and Cooper for reference during the voiceover work.

"All of the 'I am Groots' that were earlier voices didn't sound very good at all, they sounded like sh*t. It just didn't work," Gunn said. "Then Vin Diesel came in and, in one day, lied down all these 'I am Groot' tracks, and he's a perfectionist. He made me explain to him exactly what (Groot) was saying (before each delivery)"

Gunn further stated that he had a better experience as a director with Guardians of the Galaxy than he did with his first two movies, Slither and Super, and has an anecdote to explain:

"There's one shot that I'm thinking of; the characters are imprisoned early on in the movie and there's this overhead shot of Peter Quill and he's sleeping on the floor in what we call the Locked Up Abroad shot. It's Quill surrounded on the floor with all these different aliens, disgusting, they're all sleeping, packed together like sardines. It was just a really beautiful shot and we have it overhead completely with the camera slightly revolving as he's sitting there wide awake and all these gross aliens are asleep around him. I was able to take time and compose the shot in the same way you would design a painting, and changing little guys. It wasn't like it took an extraordinary time to do it, but we took some time at doing and that was something that I'd had really never been able to do in my entire career,"

Finally, he offered the following when asked about Thanos, whose henchmen serve as the villains of Guardians of the Galaxy, and the Infinity Gauntlet.

"Here's the thing. Truthfully, the Marvel Cinematic Universe takes out of both the 616 and Ultimate Marvel Comics universe, and then they recreate some elements themselves," Gunn said. "What Thanos wants in the comics is not necessarily what Thanos wants in the movies; we don't know yet."

Gunn also added that there are no Skrulls in the film and that additional filming is possible.

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