Editor's Note: When this article was originally posted, it mistakenly labeled Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Easter egg as "non-existent." However, this is not the case. The article has since been edited and CBR regrets the mistake.
Director James Gunn trolled his Twitter followers over a Guardians of the Galaxy Easter egg shared to Facebook -- while the site was down.
Gunn, who is currently gearing up to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, posted on his Twitter that he had shared "the big Guardians Easter egg on Facebook for everyone to see." Gunn posted this on Oct. 4, when both Facebook and the Facebook-owned Instagram were down for several hours. This cheeky tweet prompted several frustrated (albeit hilarious) responses from fans expecting to see the Easter egg in question.
While the Easter egg was largely gone unfound or, Gunn has posted several updates on the third installment of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, recently sharing a photo of a sizeable stack of completed storyboards for the film. The three stacks of index card-sized storyboards depict "One huge sequence, one middling, and one small," said Gunn. The director revealed earlier in June 2021 that he had begun storyboards for the film.
Filming for Vol. 3 is reportedly slated to begin in November and is scheduled for release in 2023. While this is meant to be the last film in the franchise, it is unclear whether or not the characters will appear somewhere else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Guardians are scheduled to appear alongside Chris Hemsworth's Thor in Thor: Love and Thunder, directed by Taika Waititi. Prior to that, The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is planned to air on Disney+ in 2022.
Recently, Gunn shared on Twitter that one obscure Marvel Comics character would not be appearing in the Christmas special. The director had previously teased that a major new Marvel character would be introduced in the special and when one fan theorized it could be Homer the Happy Ghost, Gunn quickly shot it down.
"Homer wasn't Stan Lee's most original idea and, as you can see, far from the only Caspar-inspired comic!" Gunn said, along with sharing other Casper ripoffs. "So, no, I won't be introducing Homer into the MCU." What Gunn has confirmed is that The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special will be required viewing before Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which will be the writer-director's final entry in the franchise.
Written and directed by James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, Sean Gunn and Elizabeth Debicki. The film arrives in theaters May 5, 2023.
Source: Twitter