Zack Sharf Just as Marvel movie fans were getting the chance to see “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” on May 6, they were also getting an update from James Gunn that filming had officially wrapped on “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
3.” The end of production marked the finish line for Dave Bautista’s MCU tenure as Drax the Destroyer, a role he has repeatedly said he is retiring from after this third “Guardians of the Galaxy” movie.“Haven’t found the words yet,” Bautista wrote on social media about saying goodbye to Drax. “It ended so suddenly and I was on to my next film before I could process it all.
End of a journey that changed my life.”Bautista told Ellen Degeneres last summer that he wouldn’t continue playing Drax beyond the third “Guardians” movie, adding, “You know, the journey’s come full circle and I’m ready to kind of step aside and wrap it up.
I didn’t think [me leaving the MCU] was going to be news because I figured everybody assumed it. This is how this works — we work in trilogies, and James Gunn has already announced that it’s his last film and when James is done, I’m done.” “After over 100 days of shooting and over 3,000 shots, this is the slate for the final shot of ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
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