Taserface, a minor villain from James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 with a particularly memorable name, originally had a different design.
Concept artist Jerad S. Marantz, who has worked with Marvel Studios on a number of projects (including Captain America: Civil War, Doctor Strange, Black Panther, Avengers: Infinity War, and Captain Marvel), had been commissioned to create designs for James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 back in 2017. As it turns out, he had a somewhat different design in mind for Taserface, which appeared to be a bit more mechanical and a bit more clean-shaven. Ultimately, a competing design from Anthony Fransisco won out, and that was used as the basis for the James Gunn movie.
Check out the Taserface design in the Instagram post below.
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Overall, Taserface looks a little more intimidating here than his movie counterpart did. However, given that Taserface is the butt of tons of jokes in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, a sillier design may have been the point that James Gunn wanted to go for. Taserface will likely not be back in any future Marvel Studios movies, but his actor (Chris Sullivan) has been confirmed to appear in the Disney+ series What If…?, which makes it likely that we’ll see an alternate version of this villain with a terrible alias in a new story.
Details on the third chapter of James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy are currently unknown, though the film will likely explore the ramifications of the universe-changing events in Avengers: Endgame. The film is also set to be the final outing for this current iteration of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is expected to star Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, Elizabeth Debicki, and Sean Gunn. Chris Hemsworth’s involvement is speculated upon, due to Thor joining the Guardians at the end of Avengers: Endgame, but it has yet to be confirmed by Marvel Studios or James Gunn.
Stay tuned to Heroic Hollywood for the latest updates on James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
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