The future of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise remains incredibly uncertain within the MCU. Dave Bautista, who played the deadly and hilarious Drax the Destroyer in Guardians of the Galaxy and every one of the team’s subsequent appearances in the MCU, believes most of the OG team, including Drax have undertaken their last adventure on the big screen. “Drax is completely closed to me,” Bautista told ComicBook.com, while promoting his new movie In the Lost Lands. However, hope isn’t entirely lost for Drax to make an MCU comeback in the future, but it requires one almost impossible factor… the return of James Gunn

. Bautista explained:

“Unless James Gunn called me and asked if I would do something as Drax again, I just wouldn’t be interested. If James called me, which obviously is not gonna happen. He’s doing okay, he’s gone a different route.”

Gunn, who directed all three films in the trilogy, is now the co-president of Marvel’s biggest rival, DC Studios, whilst also writing for Peacemaker and directing Superman. Additionally, the Guardians’ future in the MCU hasn’t been confirmed by Marvel Studios, and fans are left wondering if the OG cast (which includes Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Zoe Saldaña, Bradley Cooper, and Vin Diesel) will return, if the team’s new line-up (which includes Will Poulter’s Adam Warlock) will get their own movie, or if Marvel are done with the Guardians.
Dave Bautista Wants to Star In Another Superhero Movie

Drax the Destroyer was one of the core members of the Guardians of the Galaxy, alongside Star Lord (Pratt), Gamora (Saldana), Rocket Racoon (Cooper), and Groot (Diesel). The ending of 2023’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 left many characters open to returning to the MCU, including Star Lord, who returns to Earth to reunite with his uncle. In Drax’s case, he becomes the adoptive father of the Star Children, the young test subjects of the High Evolutionary.

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While Dave Bautista’s time as a part of the Guardians of the Galaxy might be over, the actor is desperate to return to the world of superheros in the future. “But I do wanna be in that world, I’m a fan of that world, I’m a fan of comic books and that whole universe,” Bautista said. The actor hasn’t been cast in James Gunn’s DCU yet. However, he has apparently made it clear to the director that he wants to play in the DC sandbox. Bautista said:

“Marvel, DC, I just wanna be in it. I made that known to James, I made that known to the Russo brothers. Personally, I talked to them, all of them, and told them, ‘Don’t count me out. If there’s a character that I’d be right for and that you want me for, man, I’d be totally open-minded to it.’ It’s just the Drax character ran its course.”

Audiences have been fan casting Dave Bautista in the DCU from the moment James Gunn was announced as the co-head of DC Studios (with Peter Safran). The most popular fan cast sees Dave Bautista take the venom drug to become Bane, the iconic Batman villain once played by Tom Hardy. Other popular fan castings imagine Bautista as Dr. Hugo Strange, Killer Croc, or even as a member of the Green Lantern Corps.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Release Date

May 5, 2023

Runtime

116 Minutes