It should come as no surprise that the San Diego Comic-Con has been full of announcements about Marvel's plans for upcoming films. On Saturday night, those announcements included the announcement of just who Chukwudi Iwuji will play in Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
Chukwudi Iwuji has been an official member of the cast of GOTG 3 for several months now but up until this weekend, just who he was going to play was a mystery. In fact, it was the kind of mystery that the actor and the people behind the movie seemed to be having quite a bit of fun keeping secret. It now appears that Kevin Feige and other Marvel bigwigs had long been planning to finally reveal the character at San Diego Comic-Con. Now that it's been revealed who he'll play, the guessing game turns to just how his character will mesh with the Guardians and some other characters that have been confirmed for the upcoming film.
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During Saturday night's Hall H presentation at the San Diego Comic-Con, Feige announced that Iwuji was playing none other than famed super-villain, The High Evolutionary. Not only was the actor's role revealed but he even marched down the aisle in what appears to be the costume he'll be sporting when he appears in Guardians of the Galaxy 3.
Announced back in November as part of the GOTG 3 cast, this is actually the second super-hero project Iwuji has worked on alongside James Gunn. The first project recently wrapped its first season in the form of HBO Max's Peacemaker. Of course, considering his character was killed off towards the end of that season, Iwuji's work on that series appears to be over.
That seems to mean that the actor can throw himself into the role of the High Evolutionary,
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