Dave Bautista To Star In Avengers 3

Dave Bautista’s turn as Drax The Destroyer was easily one of the most surprising and fantastic elements featured in James Gunn’s “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

Rather than just being a hunk of dumb muscle, the character was both one of the funniest and one of the most emotional in the movie, and the pro-wrestler turned actor disappeared into the role completely.

One can imagine that there is a bright future for Bautista in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and if new rumors are to be believed, then the details of that future are currently being mapped out.

A new report has popped up on a wrestling website called PW Mania that says Bautista and his people are now working behind closed doors with the folks at Marvel Studios to “restructure” the actor’s contract following the success of “Guardians of the Galaxy.”

The source says, as you might assume, that “Guardians of the Galaxy 2” is part of this conversation, but they also add that there have been talks about the eventual “Avengers 3,” which hasn’t actually been officially announced yet, but is expected to be the capstone of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase Three.

With “Guardians of the Galaxy 2” having been set on the release date calendar more than a full week before the release of “Guardians of the Galaxy,” we can probably assume that Marvel already had all of its main cast members – including Bautista – already completely locked in.

But the idea of the characters crossing over with “The Avengers” in “The Avengers 3” has merely been a theory amongst fans for years. This new report is hardly a confirmation of anything, and the report should be taken with a huge grain of salt, but the idea is definitely floating out in the universe.