GUNN: You keep saying that! You overheard me telling not to read the comics.

PRATT: I was aware of Guardians of the Galaxy, but James told me not to read any of them. Really, to me, this is like going back to that childhood box and creating this fun universe. I had hundreds of these pictures in a box. When I was a kid, I was obsessed with different planets in the solar system, and I used to create, for every single planet, a different alien race with a certain kind of pet, a certain kind of house, a certain kind of water system, and everything. This gave me a chance to take what I loved about Marvel movies and Marvel comics, and create a whole new universe, which has really been the most exciting thing for me, in my entire professional career.

For me, I think I would have had a harder time trying to fit into the regular Marvel scheme of things. What attracted you to this project, to begin with? And was bringing these characters to the screen a daunting task, or was it liberating? Collider: James, these are some fairly unknown characters, even though they exist in the Marvel comic universe.

Vin diesel flat earth