<em>Guardians of the Galaxy</em> sequel script completed

Los Angeles - The script for Guardians of the Galaxy 2 is complete.

Writer and director James Gunn has confirmed he has finished writing the highly-anticipated sequel to the 2014 Marvel movie.

Sharing a picture of the front page of the script where the date of the final draft is clearly shown as January 10, he wrote:

So this is what happens when you take your brain between your hands and wring out its every last juice. Being sent out now.

A photo posted by James Gunn (@jamesgunn) on Jan 13, 2016 at 9:10am PST

In a comment to a fan later on, he added: "I always make very tiny changes along the way, but this is essentially the final draft."

Meanwhile, the 45-year-old filmmaker also teased a few new characters when he was asked why Bradley Cooper's name had been omitted from the list.

He shared: "Bradley Cooper and Karen Gillen are not on FB. Also had to leave a couple off this list who haven't been officially announced. (sic)."

And James previously revealed the new movie will "focus more intensely on some of the characters".

He said: "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 more about fathers in the second movie, and we focus a lot on that."