First Official Photo From ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2’ Released, Tiny Groot and All

Calling all Guardians Of The Galaxy fans!

The first official photo of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 dropped early Wednesday morning, giving a preview of the main cast including a very tiny Groot!

Along with the picture, writer and director of the film, James Dunn, officially announced the start of production and some additions to the cast.

New cast members will include Kurt Russell (rumored to by playing Star-Lord’s father), Elizabeth Debicki, Chris Sulivan, and Pom Klementieff. The new cast joins returning cast members Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Karen Gilian, Michael Rooker, Sean Gunn, Glenn Close, and Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket.

And yes Kurt Russell has joined the #GotGVol2 cast, as have @PomKlementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, and @SullyActsUp. They are all amazing.

— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) February 17, 2016

Gunn confirmed back in June that Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 would be more about fathers.

“It’s going to be exciting. I think it’s a more emotional movie,” Gunn shared with Collider. “I think it’s both a bigger movie and a smaller movie because we focus more intensely on some of the characters. We get to learn a lot about fathers in the second movie.”

Regardless of the official announcement, Pratt and Dunn have already posted some behind the scenes action from the set during the last few weeks on Instagram.

Feels good to be back in action on Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2!!! I can’t even tell you how excited I am. Ok I’ll try. I’m ecstatic. I’m bursting with joy. I’m overwhelmed by feelings of enthusiasm, joy, gratitude, conviviality, camaraderie, elation, exhilaration. I just used an online thesaurus for these words. I suggest trying that. That way instead of saying “I’m very excited” say, “I’m exhilarated.” Never too late to learn words. The pen is mightier than the sword. I never got that. I could whoop someone’s ass if I had a sword and they only had a pen. WAIT!!! Now I get it. Cause you could use a giant pen with a dagger on one end? And a gun on the other end? No? Whatever. Point is… Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. Is going to be the greatest spectacle film of all time. This is not…. bear with me… using online thesaurus….. Hyperbole! This is not hyperbole!

A photo posted by chris pratt (@prattprattpratt) on Feb 2, 2016 at 11:18am PST

Using Bautista as an example of good acting during rehearsals for #GotGVol2. With @zoesaldana, @prattprattpratt and @thejudgegunn.

A photo posted by James Gunn (@jamesgunn) on Feb 1, 2016 at 2:04pm PST

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hit theaters on May 5, 2017.