ADAM WARLOCK IS ‘DEFINITELY NOT A GOOD GUY’ IN GUARDIANS VOL 3, SAYS JAMES GUNN – EXCLUSIVE IMAGE

Marvel fans have been waiting for Adam Warlock to appear in the MCU since a certain cocoon appeared as an Easter Egg in Thor: The Dark World’s post-credits sequence.

The ultra-powerful cosmic entity later received a more official tease for his upcoming big-screen debut, which will take place in James Gunn’s long-awaited threequel Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3. As stated in Vol. 2, the gold-hued Sovereign leader Ayesha created him (in a different cocoon, the previous one is no longer canon) to take down our favorite group of intergalactic jerks, the Guardians themselves, after they betrayed her.

Prepare for an incoming comic book favorite whose literal reason for being is to bring our heroes down. Or maybe not, as Gunn teases. “It’s a little more complicated than that,” he says to Empire. “However, he’s not a nice guy. What we’re seeing is Warlock’s infant form, fresh out of the cocoon, and he doesn’t understand life very well. He’s essentially a baby.”

As far as babies go, he’s a physically imposing one, in the form of a beefed-up Will Poulter, the 6ft 3 Brit who, aside from appearing in Johnny Flynn’s indie flick The Score, was last seen on the big screen meeting a sticky end at the hands of the Hrga in Midsommar. “People online were saying, ‘Oh, Tom Cruise should be Adam Warlock,'” Gunn says, but he had other plans. “I wanted someone young, and I wanted someone with dramatic and comedic chops, not just for this film, but for what Marvel will do with Adam Warlock in the future.” Ah yes.