Diana Jaw
In speaking with Slash Film, Director James Gunn has confirmed that Adam Warlock will be in Guardian of the Galaxy Vol. 3!
Revealing that Adam Warlock was originally part of the sequel,
“I love Adam Warlock. He’s one of my favorite characters. In all truth, I wrote an early treatment where I had Adam Warlock as a part…this is your big scoop, because I don’t think I’ve told anybody this… It was Adam Warlock. He was a big part of the screenplay and I realized it was one character too many. And I adored the character. I adored what we had done with him. I think we did something really creative and unique with Adam Warlock. But it was one character too many and I didn’t want to lose Mantis and Mantis was more organically part of the movie anyway. So I decided to save him for later.”
Created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in 1967, Adam Warlock is one of the strangest of the Marvel “cosmic” characters. In his original incarnation, he was an artificial human created by human scientists who escapes, journeys to space, and eventually gains the power to absorb the energies of living creatures after encountering a being known as the High Evolutionary. He has been a mainstay of the Marvel universe ever since, clashing and allying with the Fantastic Four, the Silver Surer, the Avengers, and, of course, the Guardians of the Galaxy.