James Gunn has confirmed that he once had an idea for a Guardians of the Galaxy spin-off movie focused on Drax and Mantis, which was "never ruled out."



True. But this was never ruled out. I still think it could be amazing. @DaveBautista @PomKlementieff https://t.co/MpA2iDGLHg — James Gunn (@JamesGunn) March 5, 2020

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Taking to Twitter on Thursday, the filmmaker verified a recent report, exposing his idea of a Drax and Mantis team-up movie, while suggesting that it "could be amazing" if the project was ever actually greenlit.This comes shortly after Dave Bautista, who plays lovable lug Drax in the Guardians movies, expressed his interest in Gunn's potential spin-off movie while simultaneously turning down the possibility of his character appearing in a Disney+ series."I wouldn't do a series because Drax as a series would be really rough with the make-up and everything, it would just be too tough. What I would like to do is, honestly, and this is not my idea, I'm stealing this idea, James Gunn had the idea to do a Drax/Mantis movie, and that's what I'd be up for because there's just too much fun there," Bautista said in a recent interview with Collider , even though the movie didn't end up making it into Marvel's schedule.This isn't the first time that the idea of a Guardians spin-off movie has been bandied around; a Groot/Rocket buddy movie was once deemed a "highly possible" release to follow Avengers: Infinity War. Gunn also suggested that he would like the Ravagers to star in a standalone movie as an expansion of Vol. 2's post-credit scenes Before any of that, however, Gunn is expected to move onto Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 , though it could be a long way off, as Gunn previously apologised for Guardians 3's absence from Phase 4 of the MCU . However, it sounds like it could be worth the wait, as Karen Gillan, who plays Nebula in the MCU, claimed the script for Volume 3 is the best of the trilogy

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