And no, Dave Bautista won’t be playing Rocket Raccoon. THR broke the news that mixed martial artist and WWE wrestler-cum-actor Dave Bautista will play Drax the Destroyer in Guardians of the Galaxy. He’s relatively new to acting (if you don’t count wrestling as acting…). He recently played heavies in both The Man With the Iron Fists and in the Riddick movie releasing this September. Bautista beat out Jason Momoa, Isiah Mustafa, and Brian Patrick to play the muscle to Chris Pratt‘s Star-Lord.
Galaxy centers on Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Pratt), a U.S. pilot who ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants, according to the plot description. Drax is a human resurrected as a green warrior for the sole purpose of killing Thanos (the villain in the final-scene tease of Avengers). His powers include flight, super-strength and energy blasts. [THR]
Director James Gunn still has to cast the roles of Groot (a tree man), Gamora (the last of her species), and Rocket Raccoon (a genetically-engineered talking raccoon who is an expert with artillery and explosives). We already know who he should cast as Rocket Raccoon.
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I’m not sure who is going to voice them, but I do look forward to seeing how they pull off Andy Serkis performing both Groot and Rocket Racoon. (that’s a given right?)
I think you can count wrestling as over-acting. Still acting, though.
I am so excited to see how they pull off the many, many batshit insane backstories in this movie. Or maybe they just ignore them and say “We have a talking tree AND a talking raccoon AND a psychic Russian dog, deal with it.”
Cosmo is a god damn delight.
I think we’re to the point where we need to have faith in Marvel/Kevin Feige as far as casting goes. Until there’s two crappy Marvel films in a row, they’ve done well other than The Incredible Hulk. I mean no one really thought Hemsworth and Evans were the best choices as Thor and Capt. Really it’s an insult to Momoa that they think Bastista is on equal footing with him more or less
As a fan of Wrestling, I like Big Dave from WWE but he was never the best or anything. Iron Fists looked good, but I watched it in a bar so I haven’t really checked it out. I think he can manage it if he’s a man of few words. I really think Marvel is fucking up if they don’t cast Mark Hamill as Rocket Raccoon.
“His powers include flight, super-strength and energy blasts.”
Lean Drax is going to have the power of flight? MOVIE RUINED.
I saw Man with the Iron Fists. Acting is not his thing. I guess they needed a rounded up freak though.
RZA wasn’t very convincing either
I don’t remember Drax the Destroyer having a super manly sunshine tattoo around his belly button…