{"id":964945,"date":"2026-11-15T04:34:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-15T04:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964945\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T04:34:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-15T04:34:12","slug":"james-gunns-possible-mcu-comeback-endorsed-by-chris-pratt-amid-dc-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/964945\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn\u2019s Possible MCU Comeback Endorsed By Chris Pratt Amid DC Departure"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Marvel Cinematic Universe<\/a> could potentially begin a new era for one of its most beloved teams.<\/p>\n

The MCU timeline<\/a> is getting closer to bringing the Avengers back together this December, with Earth’s Mightiest Heroes coming together once more in Doomsday, this time to face Robert Downey Jr.’s Doctor Doom. However, another superhero group that has been missing from the franchise for a couple of years is the Guardians of the Galaxy, as many have been wondering about their future after the last film.<\/p>\n

In an interview with MovieZine<\/a>, Chris Pratt shares how he wants James Gunn to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 4.<\/a>, following the filmmaker stepping down as co-CEO of DC Studios. The Star-Lord actor shared the following:<\/p>\n

\u201cThat would be awesome. I love working with James. He\u2019s the man. I haven\u2019t had a chance to speak with him since that news came out yesterday\u2026. It\u2019s always tough because anytime something like this comes up, it could always become a headline. All I\u2019ll say is I love James. He directed all three movies, and that\u2019s pretty rare\u2026 so if he wanted to come back and bring it back, I would love that.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time of this story’s publication, Marvel Studios, Kevin Feige, and Gunn have not stated anything about a possible return for the director to come back to the MCU for another Guardians of the Galaxy film. As it was announced on November 9, while Gunn and Peter Safran<\/a> are ending their time as co-CEOs at DC Studios, they are resuming their creative roles with the franchise.<\/p>\n

Gunn is currently in post-production on Man of Tomorrow, which will be the next installment in his Superman saga, with David Corenswet’s titular hero joining forces with Nicholas Hoult’s Lex Luthor to take on the villainous Brainiac. The co-CEOs are also serving as executive producers on The People V. Gorilla Grodd, a spinoff from the 2025 film that will debut on HBO Max. However, the MCU veteran is also writing a third DC project, but it hasn’t been revealed yet what the movie will focus on, with theories floating around that it is either Superman 3 or potentially a Justice League feature.<\/p>\n

It’s also unclear if Gunn has interest in returning to Marvel for an MCU movie<\/a>, as he has not confirmed one way or another whether he is exiting DC Studios completely after his third DC project he is working on. In his statement on social media, he stressed, “That’s not to say Peter and I are immediately done with DC or superheroes. We have Man of Tomorrow out this summer. And we’ve just been engaged on another DC project which I’m writing, and we’ll see where it goes after that. And, of course, the characters we set up will live on.”<\/p>\n

Given that the characters have not been used since Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, it might also indicate that the MCU is not looking to focus on them in the immediate future, even with the big tease of how “the legendary Star-Lord will return” at the end of the last film. Once Phase 6 concludes with Avengers: Secret Wars, Phase 7 will begin by focusing on other properties, including the reboots of X-Men and Ghost Rider, as well as Black Panther 3. Whether or not Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 4 would fit into those plans remains to be seen for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marvel Cinematic Universe could potentially begin a new era for one of its most beloved teams. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":964946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344],"class_list":["post-964945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}