On Thursday night I had the opportunity to attend Hollywood’s 40th Annual Saturn Awards, honoring the best in science-fiction, fantasy, and horror film and TV. Many genre favorites attended, but few whose next work in generating as much buzz and excitement as director James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy. I caught up with Gunn (pictured above — in a photo he shared today with all of his Facebook fans — trying on an early prototype of Star-Lord’s lenses) backstage after the ceremony. And I asked him about his buddy Nathan Fillion’s much-speculated-about appearance in Guardians. Here’s what Gunn had to tell me about the Marvel character Fillion will be playing…
“Nathan Fillion is not Nova,” said Gunn, who soon wraps post-production and begins the Guardians of the Galaxy worldwide press tour in Singapore on July 7th. “There’s so much bullshit on the internet. I woke up – first it’s ‘Nathan’s Nova!’, then there are articles all over saying Nathan’s Cosmo. It’s like, ‘What?!’ Nathan’s role is a very small cameo that I wanted to give to Nathan because I love working with him and I think it’s lucky for me to have Nathan in all of my movies. At the same time I wanted to give him something where Nathan could have a larger role in the Marvel Universe if either Joss [Whedon] or I or whoever chose to do that in the future. Which I would love to do. I would love to give Nathan something he could really chew on, but it didn’t work out on this movie for two reasons. Number one — because he was shooting Castle. And number two, because it just wasn’t the right exact role for him.”
“You won’t see the Nova character in the film,” added Gunn. “You’ll see the Nova Corps.”
Guardians of the Galaxy opens on August 1. A date that can’t get here soon enough.
fillion will play the Kree Captain Mar-vell and will lead to the origin of Ms Marvel in phase 3
how about dressed as captain malcolm reynolds
Please let him be U.S. Archer. Seeing Nathan behind the wheel of an interstellar big rig would be too great for words!
Just because we see the Nova Corps, doesn’t mean we can’t see Richard Rider.
J’son of Spartax maybe?
Adam Warlock?
“Castle” is both the best and worst thing ever to happen to Nathan Fillions career.
Having a long running hit show is financially going to set him for life. But his talents are so wasted on it and the number of roles he’s out-aging is just getting ridiculous.
Poor Nathan Fillion. Poor, poor, rich as hell Nathan Fillion.
I would love, since it is Joss we are dealing with, for him to appear as Mal from Firefly, just to have that lil tidbit, it would be hilarious to the few who follow Joss’ work religiously.
Forbush-Man! Pot and all!
Wish list -he’s playing the watcher!
No. Just no. The watcher needs to be Stan Lee.
Are Irving Forbush’s rights with the MCU, FF, or Spider-Man?
OHH! maybe he’s Captian Mar-Vel!
That would be interesting
Wrong universe. Captain Marvel is DC.
Both DC and Marvel have a Captain Marvel.
Marvel owns the name. Which is what the original Captain is now called “Shazam”. Marvel has had about 5 or 6 characters named that.
nerds!
There are Captain Marvel’s in DC and Marvel. Marvel has had several Captain Marvel’s. Mar-vell could definitely make sense for GotG.
Actually, no.
Captain Marvel is Marvel.
Shazam is DC.
DC’s Captain Marvel got renamed Shazam in New 52.