Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Blu-ray is set to hit streets in early December. Disney hosted a special features screening and Q&A in advance of the release. IGN attended the event, where we had to the opportunity to sit down exclusively with Guardians director James Gunn to elaborate on some of the things he'd touched on in the Q&A session and talk about where things may go in Guardians of the Galaxy 2.

Does the Collector have Adam Warlock's cocoon?:

“ There's a cocoon that's exactly like Adam Warlock's cocoon.

"Well...there's a cocoon that's exactly like Adam Warlock's cocoon," Gunn said laughing when asked about it during the Q&A. "I wasn't thinking that much when I put that in there. And it was my idea to put that in there! I went through the Marvel handbook and picked things that looked neat. And now everyone thinks he's coming out of there...I don't know, there's a lot of stuff in there. There's also a lot of stuff that people think they see that's not there. Unless the visual effects team was messing with me, which maybe they were!"

So, perhaps the cocoon doesn't mean quite what fans may assume...Or does it? Time will tell.

When asked if they'd thought of including a graphic reveal of exactly what the Collector has, Gunn said that hadn't quite

occurred

to the team.

"I did take a lot of Instagram photos," he told IGN. "I should probably post some stuff. But I didn't think about listing them on the Blu-ray. Listen, it came in waves, because at first they came and said, 'What do you want in these boxes? What do you want us to build?' We went through the Marvel Universe stuff, and I found things we had the rights to that we could put in there. Then we had to do the things that were in the background, that were CGI, and that meant coming up with more ideas, but then also those guys coming up with ideas, the visual effects artists. So it was a multi-tiered thing. It wasn't one fell swoop and we did everything."

Gunn Doesn't Want Star-Lord's Dad to Be a Sixth Sense-Like Reveal:

But it Will Be Important:

The Comic Origin Was a Bit Too Star Wars-Like for Gunn:

Characters Gunn Would Like to Continue to Explore Include Nebula & Possibly The Celestials:

“ I love Nebula -- like a lot.

There have been a wealth of theories about who Star-Lord's mystery father may be revealed to be, including the notion that he may be Adam Warlock's son. In our interview with Kevin Feige , the Marvel head said that the sequel would address the mystery. Gunn doesn't want Quill's paternity to become the center of the film, though."It's funny, I don't want to blackbox it too much," Gunn told IGN. "You know what I mean? Yeah, it's like, we'll find out who is dad is, and it's going to serve the story. It's not going to be something like in the Crying Game, though, where the big thing was, 'He has a penis!' [or The Sixth Sense's big twist]. I don't want to do that. It's not about the revelation of who it is; it's about what his relationship is to that character.""I think it's important," Gunn said to IGN - echoing what Feige had said previously - when asked if the reveal would have an impact on the Marvel Cinematic Universe at large. "Yeah."As has been reported, the story of Quill's father will not follow the comic's origin for the character. "I just thought there was a more interesting way to go for the cinematic universe that was more believable," Gunn said when asked why he'd made the shift. "There's things in the comic that on film were a little too Star Wars for me. And I'm not a big fan of the name J'son." [Laughs]When IGN asked if he'd like to explore them further the director said, "Maybe at some point, yeah. I mean, I love that guy that we see in the Collector's lab. I love that character. I think he's really cool. The visual effects artists did a great job with him, and they were given a pretty big task, to create this character in a short amount of time and put him in there. Yeah, I like that stuff, the Celestials. I like the whole idea that the Guardians are a bunch of mortals playing in the field of gods. It's really about their mortality in the face of all that stuff that makes it both dramatic and fun."One character that feels primed to return is Nebula. There was a real dot, dot, dot feel the the close of her story in the first film. Though, she was originally included in the closing montage which checks in on John C. Reilly's Corpsman Dey and Glenn Close's Nova Prime, the Collector and Grandpa Quill we're also ultimately cut from that sequence.When IGN asked if Nebula is a character Gunn would like to return to, the director said, "Yeah, I love Nebula a lot -- like, a lot."In the film's initial cut, there was a bit more context to her relationship with Gamora, but it was cut for pacing and did not make it to the theatrical release. "

The truth is we had tons of stuff in the first act on The Dark Aster for too long," Gunn reflected during the Q&A. "And it does provide information, but it made the movie move slower and so we cut it."

Continue on for more on what to expect from Guardians of the Galaxy 2 & how it will connect to the MCU at large.