OK, we admit it, we’d kill to have Nathan Fillion play a big character in the Marvel movie universe, so this is something we know is a rumour but we REALLY want to be true.
Remember at the St Louis Comic Con Nathan Fillion teased that he would be in the post-credit scene in Guardians of the Galaxy (here)? No, well, anyway it looks like there might just be something to it after all…
With Ant-man in a state of flux at the minute, Latino Review reckon there’ll be no hints at it in the post credits of Guardians but that it may open the door to another character popping up.
They reckon we will see Nova – Richard Rider – in the credits and they are guessing that he’ll be played by Capt Mal himself, Nathan Fillion! No idea what movie this will be alluding to though.
They believe he will appear, helmeted and moving very fast; the casting of Fillion could be a genius move given that Nova is in many ways the Marvel answer to DC’s Green Lantern with Rider being a man who was recruited to be part of the intergalactic police force, the Nova Corps. And remember Fillion was for the longest time the fan choice to play Lantern before Ryan Reynolds was cast (see fan made trailer below)?
Giving another little bit of credibility to the rumour is the fact Guardians director James Gunn has worked with Fillion in the past, as has Joss Whedon. Tie this to Fillion’s statement earlier this year and we’re foolishly putting all our eggs in the one basket on this one…
Thoughts?
UPDATE
After the internet began to meltdown after the Fillon story broke, James Gunn took to Twitter to straighten things out – or muddy the water even more, depending on your opinion –
First he wrote:
The rumors of my pal @NathanFillion playing Nova in #guardiansofthegalaxy have been greatly (and entirely) exaggerated. Sorry, humans.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) June 21, 2014
Then, when people continued to ask if Fillion was at least involved, he added:
“@nathanfillion has a very small fun cameo he did as a favor to me.
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) June 21, 2014
So Fillion IS in the movie, but probably not as Nova. But as who? And can we hope to see more of him in future movies? All will be revealed when we see the movie it seems…
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