Dave Bautista has shut the door on playing Drax again, except if one condition is fulfilled.
The former WWE Champion played the character of Drax The Destroyer in multiple Marvel projects, including three Guardians of the Galaxy and two Avengers movies.
He bowed out of the role after Guardians 3 to move on to other projects. It was always thought that Dave Bautista would never return to that character, although one thing could change his mind in the future.
The future WWE Hall of Famer recently spoke to ComicBook.com about his future playing the character. He said that the door is closed to playing him unless former Guardians director James Gunn asks him back into the role.
However, he admits that it is looking like an impossibility, given Gunn’s new role overseeing the DCEU, having left Marvel and Disney to take up that role. Dave Bautista would love to remain as part of Marvel in a different part to Drax, though.
Dave Bautista On Returning As Drax The Destroyer
“Drax is completely closed to me. Unless James Gunn called me and asked if I would do something as Drax again. I just wouldn’t be interested,” Dave Bautista said. “If James called me, which obviously is not gonna happen. He’s doing okay, he’s gone a different route,” he added, referencing Gunn’s current position with DC.”
“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 regarding the prospect of taking on a different character. “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.”
