Guardians of the Galaxy: Chris Pratt still pisses off critics of the first film

As the release of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 approaches, Chris Pratt, who has been playing one of Marvel’s anti-heroes since 2014, wanted to remember that things weren’t rosy when the first film came out.

When we talk about the first Guardians of the Galaxy, we often think of the runaway success and the influence that film had on the next decade of blockbusters, but we forget that before A success storyThe setting for the film was tense, as Star-Lord’s interpreter recalled when interviewed. Fandango :

I saved clips from the first movie that predicted Guardians of the Galaxy would be Marvel’s first flop. It was the consensus, and all this negativity at the time hurt our confidence and made us nervous.

I understand their position because objectively it was a title that no one had heard of.calms the actor “We didn’t have a big star, we would have been Marvel’s first failure because no one was going to go see these characters that no one knows, etc.”

But Pratt still wanted to remember this on the final day of filming Guardians of the Galaxy 3, which completes a trilogy dedicated to Drax, Gamora, Rocket, Groot, Mantis and Nebula:

“I wanted to read some of that criticism to the cast, crew and especially James to remind them of that, but also to say that we overcame all of that to be where we are today. Nobody expected us to be at this level but us. We did.”

The history of this little saga in the big Marvel saga has been flawless so far, as the first Guardians earned 772.77 million worldwide, and the second contribution 863.75 million. Will the third part unite viewers and critics?

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 hits theaters May 3: