'I Think It's F***ing Great' — Chris Pratt Has a 'Really Strong Vision' for Star-Lord's Future in the MCU and Has Pitched It to Marvel

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 ended with a wide message: Star-Lord / Peter Quill volition instrumentality to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But how, and when? Actor Chris Pratt has revealed helium has pitched Marvel connected his imaginativeness for the aboriginal of the quality — and helium surely sounds assured successful it.

Pratt was conspicuous by his lack from Marvel Studios’ Avengers: Doomsday formed reveal, which helium has joked astir successful the past. Pratt has besides spoken positively astir Star-Lord’s instrumentality (and Marvel has of people promised helium volition bash so). So the question is however and erstwhile volition it happen? If not Doomsday, possibly adjacent year’s Secret Wars? If not then, possibly a caller Guardians of the Galaxy movie?

Speaking to Josh Horowitz for the Happy, Sad, Confused podcast, Pratt was asked if helium “definitively” knows however Marvel volition usage him arsenic the MCU moves forward. “Yes and no,” helium replied, intelligibly keeping his cards adjacent to his chest. Pratt was past asked if helium could spot Star-Lord starring a caller Guardians squad successful a movie directed by idiosyncratic different than James Gunn, who is of people present co-CEO of DC Studios (and has his ain superhero cinematic beingness to contend with).

“Everything is each liquid, right?” Pratt responded, again successful a guarded fashion. “And they benignant of instrumentality things a measurement astatine a clip astatine Marvel. I'm blessed to bash thing they privation maine to do, and will.”

But then, Pratt confirmed helium has made his transportation to Marvel for the aboriginal of Star-Lord: “I personally person a truly beardown imaginativeness of what I would privation him to do. And I deliberation it's f***ing great.”

“I'm down to lend immoderate mode I tin to them mounting up the adjacent 10 years of storytelling. And besides I person a beauteous beardown thought of however I deliberation I could lend to that," helium continued.

“When we did Avengers with the Russos, it was an astonishing experience, but besides a somewhat antithetic acquisition than doing it with James [Gunn]. So successful a imagination satellite it would beryllium someway James, but I don't deliberation that's apt to happen. So, I'd person to deliberation astir who would beryllium the close director. There are astonishing directors retired there. I’m definite we’d find the close guy.”

Guardians of the Galaxy 3 ended with Zoe Saldaña’s Gamora joining the Ravagers, putting to furniture immoderate anticipation Star-Lord had of having a romanticist narration with the quality aft Thanos killed the archetypal Gamora successful Avengers: Infinity War.

Pratt spoke successful favour of this resolution, saying it sets up Star-Lord to proceed his communicative successful a much absorbing place.

“The struggle is astir apt much interesting,” helium said. “It's much bittersweet and it besides sets you up to archer much stories,” Pratt said.

“But present there's much opportunities to archer stories astir Peter Quill due to the fact that that's a trauma helium has successful his beingness and it didn't extremity happily. And truthful present helium would beryllium — wherever we should find him — helium would beryllium successful a existent presumption to effort to specify himself. He doesn’t person a life, helium doesn't person the obligations of a household and a woman and each that stuff.”

For now, the Avengers: Doomsday hype bid is precise overmuch successful afloat flow, with 4 don’t telephone them teaser trailers online that springiness america an thought of what to expect from this adjacent important juncture successful the MCU. Will Peter Quill marque a astonishment quality successful Doomsday? We don’t know. But we bash cognize of 3 Marvel stars who accidental they’ve been near out.

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