James Gunn It S Lucky Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 3 Couldn T Make Marvel S Planned 2020 Release Date

It’s “lucky” Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 couldn’t open in 2020 like originally planned, says returning writer-director James Gunn. The threequel, which Marvel Studios set for May 2023 with a title treatment reveal on Monday, was expected to release in 2020 on one of the dates the Disney-owned studio marked for that year: May 1, August 7, or November 6. In summer 2018, Gunn was fired by then-Walt Disney Studios chairman Alan Horn over resurfaced offensive tweets; by March 2019, Gunn was reinstated as director and it was agreed Disney-Marvel would wait for Gunn to complete The Suicide Squad for Warner Bros. and DC before returning to the MCU on Vol. 3.

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Lucky. We didn’t have to have our date pushed a number of times like everyone else.