MARK: If you all could just say your names-- No,
I'm just kidding.
Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana, and Chris Pratt.
Look at them, they're famous.
TODD: First of all, we want to thank
you guys for coming to the very center of the nerd universe
here at Google.
ZOE SALDANA: Yes, home!
TODD: A wise choice.
MARK: Knocked a lot of them out right out of the gate.
TODD: Yeah.
MARK: So we're going to ask you some questions.
OK, so this movie.
We all saw it last week.
It was amazing.
It's really-- I would say it's almost like 95 percent
a comedy.
It's really like a fun-- I mean, the tone
is like super light and fun.
Is it hard to keep it loose when you
know they're spending like a million dollars a minute?
I'm not good with math, but something like that.
CHRIS PRATT: It was around $1 million a second, I think.
Somewhere in there.
MARK: Oh, sorry.
You have those figures.
CHRIS PRATT: It is a little difficult juggling tone,
I think, when you have comedy and action and drama
and all those things in the same movie.
A lot of times in movies try to have all three of those things
they essentially fail at all three.
Like movies that are trying to be funny and have
action and have drama oftentimes fail at all those things.
And so it is a little scary.
Because you're there and you're surrounded by alien makeup
extras and you're on this amazing set outdoors.
You know it's literally costing at least thousands
of dollars a minute, if not more.
And they're like, OK, no do the running man more.
And you're like oh my god, like, if this doesn't work it's
going to be super embarrassing.
So it is a little tough.
But I think tone is something that's like we just sort of
have to trust James in the post production process.
That he's going to polish it and test it and make sure
that the comedies working but not overshadowing the action
and not overshadowing the drama.
I like to liken it to gastronomy.
You know, those kind of dishes that shouldn't work together
but do.
It's the result of a chef knowing just how much caviar
to mix with the lollipop and the cat food.
MARK: The gastronomer--
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ZOE SALDANA: And the marshmellows.
MARK: Because a lot of times it is weird
when you're like, oh, wait now the raccoon's crying?
What do we-- You know.
CHRIS PRATT: Right.
MARK: But it worked.
CHRIS PRATT: But it works.
I think as long as the ingredients are really
organic and fresh and you have it in the hands of a good chef,
they can give you a dish that you're not used to eating.
But you're like, goddammit, that's really good.
You know?
TODD: Are you hungry, dude?
CHRIS PRATT: I did not eat.
Every time I only use food metaphors, you know I'm hungry.
TODD: All right.
Have any of you auditioned for any
of these huge superhero comic book kind of things before?
I know Vin you've been in a billion action movies.
VIN DIESEL: No, this is the first Marvel
film, the first superhero film, I've done.
TODD: And there was a social media wave
to get you involved in a Marvel movie.
Was that how this came out about?
VIN DIESEL: Yeah.
It happened last year.
It was at Comic-Con.
I was at Comic-Con and I was at Hall H for Riddick.
And someone in a Iron Man asks me the question,
how did I envision my relationship with Marvel
would be?
And then the next day Kevin Feige was there
and they asked him the same question.
And then two weeks later Kevin Feige called me and said,
you wanna play a tree?
TODD: To which you said I am--
VIN DIESEL: (DEEP VOICE) I am Groot.
Yeah.
ZOE SALDANA: (LAUGHING) Yeah!
MARK: How many times did you have to say that?
Was it like, hey, just come in and give us six
and then we're good?
VIN DIESEL: Thousands.
MARK: Thousands?
VIN DIESEL: Yeah.
I mean, the cool thing about James Gunn
is that he really was invested in this movie.
And I was lucky because they had already
shot so much of the movie.
And when I went into the ADR booth,
I was loving what I was seeing.
I was loving these characters.
MARK: But you got to play off the scenes that you all ready
saw.
VIN DIESEL: I got to play off--
MARK: Oh, cool.
VIN DIESEL: --all of them.
So I'm loving Star-Lord, I'm loving Gamora.
I'm seeing these guys in action.
And I thought that there was only
going to be three words when I came in there.
And there was a 50 page document with I
am Groot on the left hand side and then
whatever he wanted to say.
I know some of you, I mean if this is the nerd capital,
you do know what a Flora Colossus is and it is a Groot.
And essentially, people that are familiar with him,
can understand him.
But if you aren't familiar with him
because he has a hardened larynx,
you can't understand the nuance of his speech.
So James Gunn really wanted to give me the line.
And then the process was trying to make
that line fit into the three monosyllabic words of I
am Groot.
MARK: So speaking Groot, say if you
wanted to say I'll take the check, how would that sound?
VIN DIESEL: Awkward.
TODD: All right, all right, you gave us one.
That was good.
VIN DIESEL: I have you one!
TODD: Yeah, yeah.
We appreciate it.
MARK: Come on, what is this?
TODD: Zoe, between "Star Trek," this, and "Avatar"
you're in space more than you're not in space.
Is that something-- like is it hard for you
to go from that to OK, now you're
in Pittsburgh with Christian Bale and it's a serious scene?
ZOE SALDANA: I kind of wished I was in space
when I went to Pittsburgh.
[AUDIENCE BOOS]
No!
No, no.
MARK: Come on.
ZOE SALDANA: Listen!
TODD: New Yorker.
She's a New Yorker, guys.
ZOE SALDANA: Listen.
No, no, no.
The content of what we were doing was so not fun.
When you work in a movie like this,
you're kind of skipping to work.
And you're just sort of bitching and moaning
about the long hours of makeup and the 18 hour shoots
or whatever.
When you do film like "Out of the Furnace"
we can be shooting it in Miami, in South Beach,
it's still not going to be fun.
And you're still going to wish that you were in space.
The content was really heavy.
Nobody made a joke and everybody was like a method actor.
So I'm the only one walking to work like--
MARK: Wipe that smile off your face
ZOE SALDANA: --and singing in the makeup a trailer.
And I have Christian Bale here and Casey Affleck here
and I'm like.
It was just like, oh my god, I'm so like.
So it was good when after that movie-- and I was very proud
of it.
I saw it too.
It's good to do things here on earth sometimes.
Because then when you do get to go in space you're like yes!
TODD: Doing all that stuff, was sci-fi something--
ZOE SALDANA: I love Pittsburgh, by the way.
You guys have so many awesome bridges
and the Andy Warhol Museum is there.
By the way, don't Sienna Miller me please.
MARK: But Christian Bale and Casey Affleck, not so much.
I'm just kidding.
TODD: Was sci-fi something that you've
been interested originally when you started acting
or did it just kind of come to you?
ZOE SALDANA: No.
I grew up in a household where my mother,
if she wasn't watching science fiction, she was reading it.
And I remember I read Dune when I was very, very young
and I was Lady Jessica.
For many Halloweens I was a Bene Gesserit.
So there was something about the curiosity
of what can happen there.
And having a lot of respect through my mother's
eyes for the writers and creators that
were able to imagine the unimaginable.
I just thought it was such a bold decision.
And they were so-- they were originals.
And being an underdog myself, I kind of
felt an affinity always with people
that were able to go outside of the norm
and see life for what it truly, truly is.
Which is a complete blank canvas.
So filmmakers like J.J. Abrams, James Cameron, Stephen
Spielberg are note people that I would've
thought that a girl from Queens would
get to work with in the first seven or eight
years of my acting career.
And yet I did.
And I was very grateful for it.
And then I connected all the dots.
And it has to do with our affinity with space.
And I'm OK with that.
I did have a fear when James Gunn came calling.
They come calling!
I swear to God.
I always go this will be the last.
And then it's like, you got so and so.
And it's like, what do you want?
MARK: You're going to be green now instead of blue.
ZOE SALDANA: All right, I'll do it!
TODD: That brings up, is it harder
to play a green person or a blue person?
ZOE SALDANA: Well because I'm a little lazy at heart,
I like motion capture better because you guys get
to do all the hard work.
And I just do my work, and I put it all out there,
but then I walk away.
And then it's all done in two years, like in post and things
like that.
For "Guardians of the Galaxy" I have
to sit there for five hours and it's not cool.
I have ADD, I have OCD.
I'm in England, I'm away from home.
So it's just it's still dark and you go in,
and you're getting your makeup done, and you come out,
and it's still dark.
Like the day hasn't even started.
And then you have like 16 hours worth of work to do.
And you can't complain because everybody's just
so happy to be there.
So it's a little challenging.
MARK: We were watching it.
We were just like so, does every actor know karate now?
Did you guys know many martial arts before this
or did you have to learn it for the-- When you were the booth
"I am Groot!" just doing it for fun.
No, but it seems like you guys were
doing a lot of Martial arts.
CHRIS PRATT: They had to really dumb down
my martial art skills.
MARK: Oh yeah?
CHRIS PRATT: Because I'm a 10th degree
black belt in every martial art.
No.
Yeah I did Kung Fu when I was, I think, in third grade.
So I was pretty much qualified to kick ass in space.
MARK: Didn't she kick you pretty hard a couple times?
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah.
Yeah, she did.
She's got these-- She's really a very powerful athlete.
People don't understand that power doesn't
come from brute strength, it comes from grace.
And it comes from clean lines, you know what I mean?
You see the most graceful mixed martial arts fighters
and they're not like Big Muscle heads,
they're actually almost like ballerinas.
And she's a ballerina so she whacked me once in the ribs.
I push on it and it hurts still, so it might be broken.
I don't know.
It's been like a year, so I think she broke it.
But, yeah.
She was wearing these boots, too,
they're kind of like high heeled boots.
But instead of having a heel they
have a thin, rubber, hard sole at the bottom and then a heel.
They're kind of interesting, like a triangle.
And then she sort of drove that triangle I guess into my lung?
ZOE SALDANA: Diaphram.
Into your diaphragm.
CHRIS PRATT: I'd say through my diaphragm and more
into my lung.
Yeah, it was a good.
She whacked me good.
But it's kind of nice because that's just--
ZOE SALDANA: We told him!
It's like, do you want to wear your guard?
Your safeguards?
(DEEP VOICE) No, no, no.
I got it, I got it.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah, but--
ZOE SALDANA: Everybody came.
James Gunn, the stunt coordinator, everybody.
And I was like, seriously Chris, you don't want to wear it?
Are you sure?
He's like, come on!
We know our marks and-- All right.
MARK: Were you not supposed to make actual contact?
ZOE SALDANA: No, you usually don't.
You're not supposed.
MARK: Vin does.
ZOE SALDANA: When you work with someone like James Gunn,
he'll go, just get a little closer, just
get a little closer.
CHRIS PRATT: Hm.
It seems kind of like you're blaming James and me for not
wearing some protective shield.
Look, the thing is when--
ZOE SALDANA: It's true.
CHRIS PRATT: --when people do stunts,
and when you do physical activity,
you just get bumps and bruises.
And the fact that I got one from Zoe seems, for some reason,
to be remarkable because she's a female.
But she just happens to be another one of the people who
did a lot of her own stunts.
And so, you just get bumps and bruises we you do these things.
And my--
MARK: The funnier story.
ZOE SALDANA: The tougher bump I got
was her kicking me in the ribs, yeah.
MARK: There's a lot of talk about
how in shape you got for this and how--
ZOE SALDANA: Go on, be more specific, what exactly?
MARK: You got-- You-- I don't know.
You just got totally really ripped, Mr. Universe style.
Do you now have to get back into comedy shape?
Is there a comedy weight that you have to get to?
CHRIS PRATT: I've been doing some extensive comedy weight
training, yeah.
TODD: You want to train with us?
MARK: Actually, yeah, we can train.
We're good.
Right around in that good comedy weight.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah.
I've definitely started incorporating fun things
and tasty things back into my life.
And that's like just sort of the natural balance.
You work very, very hard, but really you
only live in that same impeccable shape for maybe 24
hours.
Seriously, it's like several months built up to like the--
ZOE SALDANA: That one scene, right?
CHRIS PRATT: It's like an orchid that blooms and dies
in the same day.
It's care and concern, watering, and the perfect amount
of sunshine for six months.
And then it just, and you take a selfie.
And then you slowly-- the orchid falls off and.
MARK: You were sucking in the whole movie.
CHRIS PRATT: Pretty much, yeah, pretty much.
ZOE SALDANA: No, I have to say Chris went through an arduous
and very strict and purposeful transformation
process that I had the gift of witnessing.
And he did it primarily for like health reasons.
And he's a father as well, so he wants
to be a good example not just to his family,
but also to people out there that it is possible,
you could do it.
You could be the guy, the chubby guy from "Parks and Rec"
and then all of a sudden--
TODD: You could just be on some crummy TV show on NBC
and then--
ZOE SALDANA: You're a run superhero in a Marvel movie.
And it's just-- the message, the positive message
that it sent out there is really great.
Where's my money?
I'm
MARK: going to go on that diet.
The get cast in a huge Blockbuster diet.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah.
Yeah.
It's a good one.
MARK: It's kind of like you're going
to do a nude scene diet probably.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah.
MARK: I want to open it up to questions.
Anybody?
TODD: Vin, the working out thing is--
you have to do that all the time, I imagine.
For you, is it like his process of it's the one day,
it's perfect.
VIN DIESEL: For everyone, in some ways, it is.
You're always building to a specific scene
or you're building to a specific fight scene.
Whether it's--
ZOE SALDANA: Or a film.
VIN DIESEL: --an asthetic thing.
TODD: The guns are out.
VIN DIESEL: Yeah.
And yeah,
MARK: Are you ever just, hey, just let
me stay in the car whole time?
VIN DIESEL: I am like that a lot.
I am like that.
Just keep me in the car.
MARK: The Rock is out there, I don't
want to get out and stand next to him.
VIN DIESEL: I don't want to slip on baby oil, so.
MARK: Ask a question?
AUDIENCE: Speaking of baby oil.
Vin, Mr. Diesel, I don't know if we
want to be on a first name basis or not.
VIN DIESEL: Hey man, now we are.
AUDIENCE: OK.
Sweet.
So, Vin Diesel, Zoe Saldana, both of you
have been action figures before.
For Chris, I don't know if there was a "Parks and Rec" action
figure, but maybe this is the first time
you're an actual action figure that out there and kids
play with.
So one, what's that feel like?
And two, have you ever played with yourself?
VIN DIESEL: Aw, come on, I mean, really?
Yes, I have played with myself, by the way.
My son was at Target.
And to somehow found a Groot doll.
And then when my daughter wanted one,
they said they were sold out and they
didn't have any in any of the targets
and it became a big deal.
And it's a strange thing when you see a doll of yourself.
It's very "Twilight Zone."
You imagine going to brush your teeth at night,
opening up the cabinet, and seeing nothing but Groot dolls.
It's freaky.
It's a real freaky thing to see a doll of yourself.
I mean, especially if you're a tree.
MARK: Now how did you guys-- who were you acting with?
Was it like a tennis ball thing for Groot and uh,
what's the fox guy's name?
VIN DIESEL: What's that guy's name?
CHRIS PRATT: The fox?
MARK: The raccoon, sorry!
CHRIS PRATT: How dare you.
ZOE SALDANA: Rocket.
CHRIS PRATT: He would-- he'd bow your head off.
MARK: I know, I know, I know.
CHRIS PRATT: He would shoot a hole in your face.
No, no.
The way it works technically-- and not
to bore you with all what it takes to make this movie.
MARK: No one is going to be bored by technical stuff here.
CHRIS PRATT: I guess that's probably true.
It is pretty fascinating.
It really depends on what the shot was, would determine
what we were acting opposite.
So, if we're doing a close up of Gamora and
she's having an emotional scene with Groot
where she looks and she's having a real interaction,
and we need to capture that magic right here?
Then you'll have her acting opposite an actor.
It would either be [? Christianne ?], who
played the role of Groot on set, or Sean Gunn, who
has another only film as Kraglin.
MARK: Oh, he was hilarious.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah, he's really great.
James Gunn's brother, Sean, he's great, so good.
And those characters were definitely
born there on the stages when we were working.
And those guys had a pretty thankless job.
They're sort of the unsung heroes
of the movie because they were there every single day
in and out, creating this stuff.
Really just so that we could have organic performances
opposite them.
So like, when you go into those money shots,
those magic emotional moments where
you're having, for instance, Quill
is reacting to Rocket when he sees him
in the prison for the first time.
And he's like, he sees the cybernetic enhancements
on his back, he sees that this is a creature that's not just
a tough little guy with a machine gun,
but actually make a living, breathing creature
who feels stuff and who's probably lonely.
You develop empathy.
And that's all because I'm watching
Sean walk in and essentially create that performance just
so I could react to it.
So depending on it.
And then sometimes you'd have like an LED light or an eye
line or if it's a big wide shot, we might have nothing at all.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
ZOE SALDANA: We did have some tennis balls
every now and then.
CHRIS PRATT: There was time for tennis balls, yeah.
ZOE SALDANA: And sometimes Chris had his own tennis ball
and I had my own tennis ball.
CHRIS PRATT: And they had separate trailers.
They kind of, actually, they didn't get along.
ZOE SALDANA: No, our tennis balls did not get along.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah, we'd different eye lines.
So if we have this plant didn't exist right here.
And we need to look like we're looking at it,
I'd be looking at the young lady here in the black
and rose dress.
ZOE SALDANA: I'd be looking in between these two individuals.
VIN DIESEL: And I'd be looking somewhere over there.
CHRIS PRATT: And Groot would be licking his shoulder.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
MARK: Now when you watching this stuff where they like--
did you accidentally hear the other guys I am Groots?
Like turn this off.
VIN DIESEL: Never.
I never heard any I am Groot.
It was just wide open.
It was a really special experience for me
because I was able to take my kids into the ADR both.
And so my kids were, even before I saw the movie,
my kids were already imitating both of them.
Literally, my three-year-old son were saying Star-Lord, man.
And my daughter runs around acting like she's Gamora now.
And they already know each other.
So it's this a surreal thing.
Such a good experience.
It's one of those-- you all saw the movie?
Oh, so you all saw this movie.
MARK: Oh yeah, we get to see stuff early around here.
VIN DIESEL: What did you think of the movie?
[CHEERING APPLAUSE]
VIN DIESEL: I call it a gift movie.
I call it a gift movie because you have to gift it to someone.
You want to share it with someone.
You want to take every kid in your neighborhood
to this movie.
MARK: Let me get a question from the gentleman--
VIN DIESEL: Awkward.
MARK: --who is waiting.
AUDIENCE: First of all, congrats on Guardians 2.
CHRIS PRATT: Hey, thanks!
ZOE SALDANA: Thank you!
AUDIENCE: My question is, Vin, you came in a bit later.
So is the Press Junket really how
you're getting to know these guys?
And are you going to be doing onset stuff for 2 or?
VIN DIESEL: A very, very good question.
I've known Zoe for many years.
So, Zoe was kind of a comfort zone coming into this.
ZOE SALDANA: I directed some of the episodes of a web series
that Vin created called "The Ropes." my sister
and I directed three or four episodes of that,
so that's how--
VIN DIESEL: Brilliantly.
ZOE SALDANA: --we now Vin and his family.
VIN DIESEL: And Chris, I met on the junket.
I met Chris before I met Bradley Cooper.
I mean literally I met Bradley Cooper backstage
at one of the talk shows.
But I felt like I knew him because I saw him in the ADR
booth and I'm playing off of him.
But it is surreal.
It's kind of a, yeah, I play a tree.
I guess there are no rules.
TODD: How do you play a tree without seeming wooden?
VIN DIESEL: It's strange.
I guess I'm going for that wooden performance.
TODD: Sorry.
VIN DIESEL: I mean, I look at trees diff-- Guys,
you've seen the movie.
You have to tell me you look at trees a little bit different.
MARK: You're not kicking my ass.
VIN DIESEL: Well you're not so ashamed of your tree hugger
parents anymore, are you?
I mean it's the new world.
Did anyone plant a tree after they saw the movie?
Not much to ask.
Not much to ask.
TODD: Let's take a super nerdy one from the [INAUDIBLE] here.
Give every member of the team whatever weapons he or she
wants, who would win a "Battle Royale" slash "Hunger Games"
scenario and why?
Part B, toss in The Avengers, now what?
Let's just make this, who would win
in a fight, you guys or The Avengers?
CHRIS PRATT: Do we could use our spaceship?
TODD: Yes.
CHRIS PRATT: Because Iron Man wouldn't be-- I mean, I think--
TODD: Well, he gets to wear his suit.
CHRIS PRATT: He gets to wear his suit, right?
So yeah.
ZOE SALDANA: He can't take anybody with him
or Thor either.
Thor can only take like his girlfriend on a ride
and that's it.
TODD: Only Natalie Portman, yeah.
ZOE SALDANA: Yes.
CHRIS PRATT: Does it take place on Earth or in space?
TODD: In Space.
CHRIS PRATT: In space?
We win.
We would win.
TODD: The suit, you could--
CHRIS PRATT: Well we have more.
I think the deciding factor would probably be Rocket
because he would take Tony Stark's suit apart and build
like a nuclear bomb out of it or something.
TODD: And then they also have a god, so.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah.
TODD: You would obviously dismantle Thor.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah, right, because we also have a god.
TODD: Star-lord!
ZOE SALDANA: He's my daddy.
I seriously think that we would win.
But it's not um--
MARK: You're supposed to be the deadliest
woman in the galaxies.
ZOE SALDANA: Yes.
VIN DIESEL: It's true.
ZOE SALDANA: I seriously think that we win because they're all
human, they're all Terran except for Thor.
TODD: What about the Hulk?
ZOE SALDANA: Well, but it depends.
Because then Marc Ruffalo comes in and he's such a nice guy.
CHRIS PRATT: Rocket would kill Bruce Banner.
He would wait for the Hulk to stop being the Hulk.
And then sneak in and slit Bruce Banner's throat
and it would be done.
MARK: You guys are writing movie right now.
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
CHRIS PRATT: There's going to be a crossover
and they all die in the first three minutes, I'm sorry.
Then it becomes a buddy comedy between Groot and Rocket.
MARK: Do you guys ever start pitching ideas
like that to the director?
ZOE SALDANA: That's what we're doing right now.
CHRIS PRATT: I thought this was a creative meetings.
You guys?
You're not the?
MARK: This is all testing really well.
CHRIS PRATT: Thank you.
We throw around ideas, we pitch ideas,
but they don't listen to us.
TODD: We liked your idea.
VIN DIESEL: Did you want to see Avengers versus Guardians?
What do you think would happen?
TODD: Ready, all at once.
VIN DIESEL: All at once.
MARK: Everyone go.
VIN DIESEL: Sing chant.
Guardians of I'm hooked on a feeling.
TODD: Let's take one from the gentleman over there.
AUDIENCE: So Vin, I've heard you're really
into Dungeons and Dragons.
So I have two questions.
VIN DIESEL: Yes.
Go.
AUDIENCE: What character do you play?
And would you be willing to join our group?
VIN DIESEL: Aww.
You know, whenever anyone asks me to join their campaign,
there's a good old feeling I have
where I feel like, you know, I'm not alone in the world.
And it's OK to be a dweeb.
I played a lot of characters.
And I played-- my most famous characters
you might have read about, which was my witch hunter,
my half-drow witch hunter.
The irony is I'm about to, next month,
do a movie called "The Witch Hunter."
Kind of freaky.
I mean, I never thought in a million years, when
I was rolling that 20-sided die, 20 something years ago,
that Hollywood would make a movie about a witch hunter.
But that's subject.
And yeah, where are you playing?
On the east coast?
AUDIENCE: Well we actually do it over video chat.
VIN DIESEL: You are doing video chat?
AUDIENCE: Yeah.
So we've got one guy down in North Carolina
and he will video in.
VIN DIESEL: Are you using modules?
AUDIENCE: It's mostly second edition rules,
but they have some hold overs from the first edition.
So.
VIN DIESEL: OK.
OK.
TODD: He's thinking about it.
ZOE SALDANA: That was awesome, by the way.
VIN DIESEL: We played with Unearthed Arcana,
we played with everything.
I mean, that's where the witch hunter.
Witch Hunter wasn't created by Gary Gygax, you know.
It was aftermarket book.
So we are trying to incorporate and create new games
and try to create this.
It was a special time!
Dnd was a special time.
Yeah, mean.
We might have to get into that.
We might have to get into that.
I can get into that, man.
ZOE SALDANA: You totally went there.
VIN DIESEL: Do you know that Gary Gygax--
CHRIS PRATT: Oh, god.
VIN DIESEL: I'm sorry, guys.
CHRIS PRATT: Get a room!
MARK: I told you it was going to get dorky.
TODD: Split up into breakout sessions
where everyone gets their own Guardian of the Galaxy.
VIN DIESEL: Well I'll tell you later.
It's Gary Gygax.
TODD: Chris, I have one for you.
So try look at the mythology of Star-Lord,
and it looks like there's a whole lot
of different stories and origin stuff.
Did you read everything you can get your hands on and were
you like--
CHRIS PRATT: No.
TODD: I'm just going to read the words
on the script when the cameras on.
CHRIS PRATT: No, no, no.
It was somewhere in between the two.
For me-- and this is going to sound crazy,
but-- it was the same thing when I did the movie "Moneyball"
there's a book that it's based on.
And I remember reading the script
and I was like this is just a great version of the story,
I don't want to come into this questioning the script.
I don't want to come in and say, well in fact,
this time is a little off.
Because it just work so well as the story,
I thought the same thing with this script.
A lot of the incarnations the "Guardians of the Galaxy"
don't include Star-Lord.
Like the ones I had coincidentally
collected as a kid, they didn't have Star-Lord in them.
And so there were some Star-Lord comics out there.
But for me what was important, the thing
that grab me in the script in creating this character
was that he and I are kind of the same person.
I mean we're both born in 1979, so 1988 we were nine years old.
And we both have all the same pop culture references
and icons.
Which for him like it's who he is.
I mean, he was taken away from Earth
at nine years old and brought out the space
and given an opportunity to be at an adventurer.
And he's like sort of running from this traumatic thing that
happened to them.
And so what he wants to do is just create a hero.
That he wants people to think that he is Star-Lord.
And everything he knows about life is based on the movies
that I watched as a kid.
The music that I listen to, the dance moves that I knew.
It's like this kid this guy is basically
what me as nine years old would want
to be if I was given carte blanche to be
an adventurer in space.
So that's where I started mining for information.
It's like, what did I like?
The Kevin Bacon line, that was a result of collaboration
in "Footloose" that was never in the script.
These things like that are like, I loved "Footloose"
and I was like, when she says she won't dance,
maybe it should be this ideology.
He really looks as these moves the legends that create him.
Because he hasn't been earth since he was nine.
So he gets to kind of be whoever you want to be.
So that's really where I started developing
or where we collaborated developing
who this guy would be.
It's like just who I was at that age.
MARK: Yeah when Gamora says, just like Kevin Bacon,
I think that was the biggest laugh in the theater.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah.
That's awesome.
MARK: That's amazing that it went in there because I
was waiting to hear a little Footloose on the soundtrack.
I was like where is that song?
Did they plan all those songs out?
The soundtrack is amazing.
Did you like know what the mixtape was going to be?
CHRIS PRATT: I knew.
That was the first thing I requested
after reading the script.
I was like, all right James, send me this mixtape.
Because in the script he had written specifically each song
that would play in each scene and that lasted
throughout from his first draft all the way to the end,
like those songs were in there and planned.
So I made him send me the mixtape which
includes all of the songs plus many more.
Because I figured you have like one cassette tape
and it's all you listen to for 20 years,
it's going to become part of you.
So I listened to that thing no less than 100 times,
but probably more than 100 times.
MARK: So in sequel we're going to hear that second mixed tape.
CHRIS PRATT: Yeah we'll hear Awesome Mix Volume 2.
TODD: We noticed there was no scene where you'd
try to unwind it with the pencil or rewind
when it gets screwed up.
CHRIS PRATT: I know.
ZOE SALDANA: Damn it.
TODD: These guys have a really day,
let's take one more if we can.
AUDIENCE: So Thanos has already been introduced in Avengers
and now he's been shown in Guardians, right?
So are there any plans already being
made for teaming up both the Avengers and the Guardians
probably for the next version of the movie?
VIN DIESEL: Well James Gunn has talked about that already.
He's been pretty open about a cross collaboration of Avengers
and-- is that what you asked?
AUDIENCE: Yeah.
ZOE SALDANA: That's what I think I would want to see.
I don't ever want to see the Guardians fight the Avengers.
I wanted to see them sort of fighting together, maybe
against Thanos.
Because I do believe that Thanos is sort of--
isn't Thanos like the overall enemy of everybody?
MARK: You don't know?
Just kidding!
Isn't he your dad?
ZOE SALDANA: He is me dad.
CHRIS PRATT: It depends on where they want to go.
What I think is so cool about "The Guardians of the Galaxy"
is it opens up the universe.
So, instead of taking these new things
and bringing them right back to the stories we already know,
I think it's like open it up.
See what other corners of the galaxy we can discover.
Bring in characters that were from some
of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Explore Yondu, explore the origins
more of these characters.
And if it is Thanos, explore the Infinity Guantlet.
Like how many of these stones is he going to get?
And who does that open up?
The universe expands, you know.
And looking out on it, we want to take these characters
and bring them into The Avengers,
and we want to like have them be on the same movie together.
It's like no, fuck that.
Make a fucking 100 movies.
You know what I mean?
MARK: Yeah.
CHRIS PRATT: If they end up crossing over, great.
MARK: Are we out of time?
OK.
TODD: Guys, I've been told that we are out of time officially.
Pleased thank our beloved guests for joining us.
CHRIS PRATT: Thank you Mark, Thank you, Todd.
MARK: One more.
Why no post credit scene?
CHRIS PRATT: There is a post credit scene.
MARK: What?
CHRIS PRATT: There is a post credit scene
and it's not going to be any in advance screenings, none
of the press screenings.
[GROANING]
Hey, don't groan.
You want the post credit scene?
It's going to cost you $13.00.
Get out and see this, maybe a little more in IMAX
and you'll see it.
But I know what it is and no one else does.
Yes, I do.
VIN DIESEL: I don't even know what it is.
CHRIS PRATT: And it's going to blow your mind.
So go back.
If for anything go back just for that.
MARK: I'm going to can sneak into a theater
at the end of it.
TODD: All right, well once again,
thank you guys so much for joining us.
We really appreciate it.
