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- James, great to see you, man.

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- You too.

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- First, "Guardians" is my
favorite Marvel movie ever.

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I love it so much.

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And I know that you sort
of had this overall arc

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in your head at some point.

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When you made that movie,

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how much of what happens in this one

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was already in your head?

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Tell me a little about
how much the story is.

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- I think the basic,
first of all, you know,

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I work on backstories for people,

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so I know where they come from.

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So my pathway into "The
Guardians" initially

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was, you know, Marvel talked to me

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about perhaps doing
"Guardians of the Galaxy,"

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they actually had some art
already done with Rocket in it.

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And I thought, "Boy, this could be goofy,

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this could be like Bugs Bunny

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in the middle of the Avengers."

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I'm like, "How do I not make it goofy?"

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And I thought about,

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well, okay if there was
a talking space raccoon

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how would he have come to exist?

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And as I mused upon it, I started thinking

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about how it was the, you know,

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this was the saddest
creature in the universe.

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And that was actually the seed

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to me for the entire "Guardian's Trilogy."

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That was my way into it,

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was this underpinning of
just isolation and sadness.

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And all of these characters
are isolated and sad.

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So I knew what Rocket's
backstory was from that moment

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before I had come up with
the rest of the stuff

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for Volume One, first
thing I came up with.

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- Why the hesitation to, did
you know you were gonna be

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able to tell it in a third movie?

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Did you think maybe there's a chance

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you may not never get to tell it?

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- I think that I,

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well I definitely thought at
one point there was a chance

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I wasn't gonna tell it,
but I always thought,

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yeah I thought it was a third movie thing

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'cause I thought we had to
tell Chris's story first

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or Peter Quill's story first.

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and then get into Rocket's story.

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I think the only question was,

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was it gonna be a "Rocket and Groot" movie

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or was it gonna be "Guardians 3?"

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- [Germain] Gotcha.

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- You know, 'cause initially

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I was gonna do it as "Rocket and Groot".

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