Yesterday evening at
San Diego Comic-Con, Marvel Studios head Kevin Feige officially confirmed that in
James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, Elizabeth Debicki ("The Night
Manager") will play Ayesha, a character with deep ties to the much rumored
Adam Warlock, while Kurt Russell will play the big (literally) Marvel villain
Ego the Living Planet. But...
Massive Spoilers Ahead!!!
Created in 1977 by Herb Trimpe, Len Wein, and David Anthony Kraft, Ayesha
was in the comics created by The Enclave, a group of scientists dedicated on
controlling the world with the use of genetically perfect beings designed to
fathering a new human race. Their first creation was HIM, later known as Adam
Warlock, who rebelled and escaped the group. Not learning from their previous
mistake, The Enclave created HER, who also escaped and went searching for HIM,
who she considered to be the perfect mate with which to start a new race.
In
the film however, "Ayesha is the golden High Priestess of a
genetically-perfect people called the Sovereign. She’s not a woman to be
screwed with – she, and her entire world, are extraordinarily deadly," revealed Gunn in a post-SDCC Facebook post.
As the name implies, Ego is a sentient planet of
"immeasurable intelligence, and incalculable strength. Its stamina and
durability are god-like, it can fly through space at warp speed, and since he
is essentially a "living planet", it has total control over its total
mass down to the molecular level. Additionally, Ego can shift its surface to
appear as if it had a giant face, and grow enormous tentacles. It can make
itself look like either a paradise, to lure unsuspecting travelers to their
doom, or a barren world and can use its mass to create plant-like growths or
humanoid bodies to carry it consciousness. Ego has an internal organ system
that has giant tunnels, or arteries, a brain-like organ that is buried deep
within its surface, and digestive organs to digest the living beings it absorbs
into its body. Ego also has an immune system that will attack an entity that
resists being absorbed, and has vast mental powers that allow it to tap into
energy sources such as the stars or absorbing other living entities and use
that power for itself. It also has extreme telepathic abilities that are
effective over interstellar distances."
In the film however,
Ego (who is still a planet) is…Peter Quill's (Chris Pratt) father!!!
"Yeah, his dad is a planet. Sort
of. It will all be explained in the film…," Gunn teased before adding,
"if a planet was alive, how could that be? And how could it father a child?
The answers to those questions took me to a far deeper place that I
expected. I don’t want to give away too many answers at this time. But what
Nova Prime said about Peter’s father at the end of Vol. 1 is certainly true –
he is something ancient and unknown. And, as we will discover, being a cosmic
being, alone for eons, is perhaps even more lonely than being the universe’s
sole talking raccoon."
Also
starring Sylvester Stallone, Zoe Saldana, Bradley Cooper, Dave Bautista, Karen
Gillan, Vin Diesel, Nathan Fillion, Tommy Flanagan, Pom Klementieff, Michael
Rooker, Chris Sullivan, and Glen Close, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 opens in
theaters on May 5.
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