This latest clip from Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is quite a bit more emotional than the others we've seen, as we flash back to Rocket's childhood on Counter-Earth, where he and his fellow animal pals have been experimented on by the High Evolutionary (the bastard).
Lyla suggests that they all give themselves names for when "Sire" takes them to the new home he promised, and we find out why our favourite surly space-racoon chose to call himself Rocket.
Director James Gunn also took to Twitter to announce that Linda Cardellini will voice Lylla, Mikaela Hoover is Floor, and Asim Chaudhry will play Teefs.
"I was very, very careful about what we see in terms of animals being hurt because it is something I'm incredibly squeamish about, and people are squeamish about," Gunn tells Collider. "So I think the difficult stuff to watch in the movie – and there is some difficult stuff at times – is because of the idea of what's happening more than what you actually see. You don't see very much, in terms of violence or harm to animals, but you do see these little animals, the results of which are not the most beautiful, but somehow they're extraordinarily cute."
"In Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 our beloved band of misfits are settling into life on Knowhere. But it isn’t long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket’s turbulent past." "Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life—a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them."
Gunn writes and directs Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, featuring Vin Diesel as Groot, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter, and Maria Bakalova. Kevin Feige is the producer and Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Nikolas Korda, Simon Hatt, and Sara Smith serve as executive producers.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 arrives in theaters on May 5, 2023.