James Gunn Opens Up About Star-Lord's Dad in GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 2
There were only a couple bits of information regarding Star-Lord's father in Guardians of the Galaxy. One was the fact that he hired Yondu to take Peter Quill from earth and bring him to him. The other was that Peter Quill's mom described him as an angel composed of light. It was already revealed that Quill's dad would be a part of the sequel, and in a recent interview with IGN, director James Gunn discusses the capacity of the character's role in Guardians of The Galaxy 2 saying,
"It's funny, I don't want to black box it too much. You know what I mean? Yeah, it's like, we'll find out who his dad is, and it's going to serve the story. It's not going to be something like in The Crying Game, though, where the big thing was, 'He has a penis!' [or The Sixth Sense's big twist]. I don't want to do that. It's not about the revelation of who it is; it's about what his relationship is to that character."
It's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out. Gunn already said that Quill's father is not going to be the same character we know from the comic book, who is J’Son, King of Spartax. There have been some rumors though that suggest his dad could be Adam Warlock. The character was teased in the Collector's showroom. When it was brought up in the interview, Gunn said,
"Well...there's a cocoon that's exactly like Adam Warlock's cocoon. I wasn't thinking that much when I put that in there. And it was my idea to put that in there! I went through the Marvel handbook and picked things that looked neat. And now everyone thinks he's coming out of there...I don't know, there's a lot of stuff in there. There's also a lot of stuff that people think they see that's not there. Unless the visual effects team was messing with me, which maybe they were!"
Whoever the father character ends up being, it will be interesting to see the dynamic between him and Peter. The movie will come out on May 5th, 2017