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The baby Flora colossus is back with five short adventures in I Am Groot

WE’VE SEEN SEVERAL growth stages of Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) across the Marvel Cinematic Universe, from Guardians Of The Galaxy through to Thor: Love And Thunder. But let’s be real: the Baby Groot iteration is the one that delights audiences most. Since we didn’t get much quality time with the whippersnapper, Marvel Studios is giving us five unseen adventures in the Disney+ original shorts series I Am Groot.

The series is executive-produced by James Gunn, and written and directed by Kirsten Lepore, known for her indie animated shorts. Lepore tells Red Alert that Marvel Studios asked her to come in for a general meeting, where she was asked to pitch her take on a Baby Groot shorts series. Her ideas impressed the executives and together they crafted I Am Groot to fill in some gaps that the movies weren’t able to show audiences.