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I think Drax is a character who isn't going to be speaking all that much anyway so if Gunn can direct him well enough we are in for a great Drax because man does he fill the physical role well.
They wrote the script before they cast the role. Whatever they "have to do" had already been decided before Batista.They will probably pretty much have to go that route lol.
You really think directors and writers don't adapt their screenplays for certain actors? I mean, Drax isn't going to make or break this movie. But you really think the guys who wrote Iron Man had all the witty quips and remarks that RDJ brought to the movie? There are re-writes happening on set during filming. They're not going to change the whole script for someone but there is always tweaking and changes being made.
Yeah, there's a difference between changing dialogue and reducing it. I doubt Drax has more dialogue than Quill, Gamora, and RR in the first place, but the casting of Batista isn't going to be the reason Drax doesn't have as many lines as the others (if that's actually the case).
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I am a little fuzzy on Drax's origins. I thought he was an alien robot created to kill Thanos. But then I read that its a lot more complicated, with a human
soul being put in the body of an artificially created organic warrior by some omnipotent alien being after the human's family was murdered in their car by
Thanos. Or something. But that might just be his old old origin, and has since been retooled.
It would be easier, in my opinion, for the movie to make him simply an alien robot created for the sole purpose of killing Thanos. In the concept art above
he looks like a robot with organic styled skin. Like Brainiac or something.
Anyway, I found these pic of Batista that could be used to photoshop him into looking like Drax.
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Yeah, a robot? No.
Drax's human origins can *easily* be transplanted to another planet; and *should,* imho. Instead of throwing yet another human into the far reaches of space where one would assume Peter Quill would be the only representative of his race, you could still tell the tale of Drax as an ordinary alien whose family was attacked and slain by Thanos, all except for Drax and his psychic lesbian daughter who's just as bald as he is and who has a penchant for nudity and high collars.
(And no, I didn't make that last part up, for any Marvel noobies out there. Google "Moondragon")
He doesn't even necessarily have to be put into a different body. Maybe he can just have his regular body powered up.Yeah, a robot? No.
Drax's human origins can *easily* be transplanted to another planet; and *should,* imho. Instead of throwing yet another human into the far reaches of space where one would assume Peter Quill would be the only representative of his race, you could still tell the tale of Drax as an ordinary alien whose family was attacked and slain by Thanos, all except for Drax and his psychic lesbian daughter who's just as bald as he is and who has a penchant for nudity and high collars.
(And no, I didn't make that last part up, for any Marvel noobies out there. Google "Moondragon")
But at the same time you don't want to step on the origin of Gamora. An alien who Thanos murdered her whole planet (?) and left her alive for her to later become one of the deadliest warriors in the galaxy out for Thanos' head. If Drax is just another alien who Thanos murdered his family leaving him alive to become a deadly warrior out for revenge it might be too similar. But I am not as familiar with Drax as others, I saw him on the Silver Surfer cartoon where they said he was an alien, then I read some place that he was created to kill Thanos (which he did leaving him without a reason for living). So I assumed he was a robot created to kill Thanos. (And the concept art I posted makes him look cybernetic, so I kept assuming.)
Knew I saw the robot thing some place. Did they just make that up for the show?Television
Silver Surfer (1998)
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In the Silver Surfer animated series, Drax is the android companion of Mentor.
Drax has an organic mind that sometimes glitches and disappears. After Mentor
become a part of the Virals (what has become of the Watchers), he claims to
have no purpose. The Surfer encourages him to live his life, for he deserves it.
Drax is voiced by Norm Spencer, who also was the voice of Cyclops on the
X-Men animated series.
The fact that Thanos murdered the populations of both of their home planets could be part of the bond that Drax and Gamora share. Sort of a brother and sister type relationship.
And there's also the fact that there are a LOT of planets that have been destroyed by Thanos. The hardest part of these backstories is believing that Thanos left any survivors...
I wouldn't mind Drax being an android/cyborg, a reconstructed alien whose sole purpose is to kill Thanos after he annihilated his home world.
The concept art already hints at it. If you look closely his arms look like metal plating. Parts of his head as well.