by Brett White

The crew over at HeyUGuys got to speak with "Guardians of the Galaxy" director James Gunn at the UK premiere of "Iron Man 3." This is the first time the director has spoke at length about the film in a while, definitely since all the casting and plot rumors started flying.

The entire exchange is worth a look, as Gunn responds to nearly every crazy news item that's been released, even if he doesn't confirm the involvement of Michael Rooker or Dave Bautista. He does mention that there'll be an announcement about the actor voicing Rocket Raccoon in the next few weeks, saying that the odd character is incredibly important to the film.

"I've done a lot of studying with real raccoons, and we had real raccoons come in. We've done photography with them, I've played with raccoons, and fed raccoons, and dealt a lot with real raccoons to get some of the behavior down, because it's really, really important to me that Rocket Raccoon, who is the heart of the movie, is not a cartoon character, it's not Bugs Bunny in the middle of The Avengers, it's a real, little, somewhat mangled beast that's alone. There's no one else in the universe quite like him, he's been created by these guys to be a mean-ass fighting machine."

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