James Gunn Explains The Collector's Sovereign Cocoon In The First GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Film

Adam Warlock was originally slated to feature in Guardians in the Galaxy Vol. 2 but some MCU fans are still convinced to this day that he actually had a cameo in James Gunn's first Guardians film.

By MarkJulian - Jul 03, 2017 09:07 AM EST

Filed Under: Guardians of the Galaxy

Leading up to the release of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 in theaters, director and screenwriter James Gunn admitted that Adam Warlock was originally going to play a major role in the film before Gunn ultimately decided that the film had one too many characters.

Of course, back when the first Guardians film was released, eagle-eyed Marvel fans instantly spotted Warlock's cocoon amidst The Collector's assembled revelries...or so they thought. Initially, Gunn confirmed back in August 2014 that The Collector DID have Warlock's cocoon but then a few months later, tried to walk back that admission, stating that it may or may not be Warlock's birthing pod.

It's likely that as Gunn was writing the Guardians sequel, he realized that he may need to give himself some wriggle room with how Warlock would be introduced into the MCU.

According to Gunn, the cocoon on display in Tanleer Tivan's collection is an ancestor of the Sovereign.

The cocoon in the 1st GotG (& at Disneyland) is likely a primitive version of the Sovereign cocoons, when they 1st hatched their own. https://t.co/Xs0s0BB1ha
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) June 28, 2017

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106 Comments

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DashParr - 7/3/2017, 9:29 AM

I'm excited to see what Adam Warlock looks like in the MCU.

Pathogen - 7/3/2017, 9:31 AM

@DashParr - He's naked. Full frontal

McGee - 7/3/2017, 9:41 AM

Fun fact: My favorite movie is Cocoon. Because Wilford Brimley is completely naked in it.

LukeCage2155 - 7/3/2017, 9:31 AM

Bring on Adam Warlock.

JohnGrayson - 7/3/2017, 9:32 AM

Still bummed that Warlock will not be in Infinity War.

ODanil - 7/3/2017, 9:38 AM

I'm afraid for Vol.3.

Vol.2 made it very clear that Nicole Perlman draft for the first movie DID make a difference in how good Vol.1 ended up being. Don't get me wrong I LOVE Gunn and think that he is the big reason vol.1 was so awesome. However, I don't think he was the only reason. Maybe leaving all the writing to him in Vol.2 wasn't such a good idea. He went a little egomaniacal on the character development and forgot to give the movie more "flow";

anyway, that's just my thought, though.

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