Baby steps — Groot gets his own spin-off series
WITH JUST THREE words (“I am Groot”) and a strip of bark to work with, Guardians Of The Galaxy’s Groot isn’t the most obvious candidate for his own spin-off. But through a new five-strong series of short films for Disney+ (set before the first Guardians Of The Galaxy movie), directed by Kirsten Lepore and with Vin Diesel returning to voice his character in child form, he’s got just that. Speaking with Empire, Lepore reveals the stages of turning Baby Groot into the hero of his own story.