Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy upon its release introduced various new characters, and out of those characters, one became extremely famous and that is none other than Groot. Groot , a tree character, though small but played very important and significant roles ever since it was introduced into the cinematic universe. Groot will further make his appearance as he is in the team of The Guardians of the Galaxy and also the 4th Thor movie. But, besides the Guardians of the Galaxy world, there’s not much the world knows about Groot, but seems like MCU now might be having some special plans.
Well, in a recent interviews with Vin Diesel, the actor who lends his voice to the adorable character of Groot hinted on something, which could mean something related to Groot might be up for sure in the coming years. Marvel has been working on various characters that were earlier side roles in its major movies, but with a streaming platform of their own now, they are free to explore lot more things and the recent series WandaVision, The Falcon and The Winter Soldier, Loki are just some of its examples.
Now, coming back to this probable Groot project, in a recent podcast, Vin Diesel mentioned a certain line that had everyone’s interest piqued. The sentence was about asking Kevin Feige, the president of Marvel Studios “the Groot story he’s excited about… The return to Planet X.”. Well, this is not quite specific and one might say it is actually very vague, but its MCU we are talking about. Anything can be formed from literally anything.
For people who don’t know Planet X is actually the planet Groot comes from and his planet is yet to be explored in the MCU, while avid comic readers will definitely know about this planet. According to various parts in the Marvel Comics, Groot is actually someone who cannot return to his planet as he has been exiled from it.
Vin Diesel teasing that a project of sorts might actually be underway is already super exciting. Groot already is returning for The Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, as well as Thor: Love and Thunder along with a holiday special of The Guardians of the Galaxy. Along with all these an “I Am Groot” animated series is also underway as announced in the 2020 Investors Day presentation. In the animated project, Groot will be joined by various new characters in a couple of short stories. This doesn’t include Planet X in any sense though.
Though it cannot be confirmed as of now, if the animated series will be the one or the other movies featuring Groot will be the one telling its story. Or there might be a completely different story in line for the character, just yet. Rumors are also there that along with Groot, a “Rocket” project maybe introduced too. Rocket too is someone whose identity is yet to be explored.
So, given the point of how famous Groot is, Kevin Feige is definitely right to be excited about such a project that will introduce us to world filled with not one but probably so many more Groots. For, now the only thing we can do is stay tuned to whatever is coming up.