Benicio Del Toro’s The Collector, Josh Brolin’s Thanos, and John C. Reilly’s Rhomann Dey have all been omitted from Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 (Picture: Marvel)

Guardians Of The Galaxy 2 is shedding a couple of cast members from the first outing for the sequel, director James Gunn has revealed.

Bucking the trend of squeezing as many characters as possible into a Marvel film (Captain America: Civil War is bursting with heroes including Iron Man and Spider-Man, while future instalment Avengers: Infinity War could have as many as 67 characters involved in the plot) James is streamlining his cameos.

The second installment of the Guardians Of The Galaxy franchise is currently filming, but the director has confirmed John C. Reilly and Benicio Del Toro won’t be entering the set.

Benicio del Toro won’t appear in Guardians V.2 (Picture: Ian Gavan/Getty Images)

‘Benicio Del Toro is NOT in Guardians Volume 2. But I am very excited to see him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the future, I hope,’ James, 45, said during a Facebook Q&A.




‘Although we haven’t forgotten the character, he just didn’t fit into Volume 2,’ he continued – also revealing: ‘John C. Reilly is not back for Volume 2, unfortunately.’

John had played a Nova Corps guard named Rhomann Dey in the first Guardian’s outing.

Guardians of the Galaxy was a huge hit in 2014 (Picture: AP Photo/Disney – Marvel)

Benicio, however, has a contract for multiple Marvel appearances as Taneleer Tivan (aka The Collector), first appearing as the character in a post-credits scene of Thor: The Dark World.

He was last seen in the first Guardian’s film sitting in the ruins of his office after it had been destroyed by an Infinity Stone.

James revealed no Infinity Stones (of which there are six; each with different powers, and if united give the holder unlimited power) will appear in the second Guardian’s movie – and confessed his favourite character is Rocket the Racoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper).





Trying this again! Yo! Geplaatst door James Gunn op Zaterdag 16 april 2016

The director had previously reported uber villain Thanos won’t be in the sequel either.

‘I think he’s gonna have a little bit to do and say when it comes to certain wars and infinity. We’ve got other fish to fry in Guardians Vol 2,’ he said.

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