Guardians of the Galaxy 2: First image of team reveals a very small Groot

Star-Lord, Drax, Gamora, Rocket and Groot are back, finally!

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Over the last few weeks, director James Gunn has revealed numerous photos from the initial stages of work happening on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but none have been as exciting as this.

Posted to the Guardians of the Galaxy Twitter account, the picture shows Star-Lord, Drax, Gamora, Rocket and Groot, standing in front of a bright light.

Notably, Vin Diesel’s character Groot is very, very small, having been blown apart at the end of the first film. Whether he remains this way for the entire film remains to be seen.

In other Guardians of the Galaxy news, director James Gunn took to Facebook to comment on Fox’s recent film Deadpool, and how some commentators were overlooking both Guardians and Ant-Man by saying it has changed up the formula to make superhero films funny.

In a separate post to the social media site, Gunn revealed that a major character will not feature in the sequel, while Chris Pratt teased “Awesome Mix Vol. 2” on Instagram.