the interim, Gunn was even allowed to rewrite the dialogue for the Guardians in the scripts for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame (and to nominate the song that heralded the group’s entrance in Infinity War, choosing the Spinners’ 1976 hit “The Rubberband Man”). By the end of 2017, Gunn had completed a draft of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 and was expecting to film the movie in 2019 for a May 2020 release date. Just as Joss Whedon had been the czar of Phase Two
