{"id":42357,"date":"2016-04-25T14:41:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-25T21:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/?p=42357"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:26:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T19:26:34","slug":"nathan-fillion-guardians-of-the-galaxy-2-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/nathan-fillion-guardians-of-the-galaxy-2-cameo\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Nathan Fillion&#8217;s Cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Be a Pre-Cursor to a More Heroic Role?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us with brown coats in the closet, Canadian-born Nathan Fillion will always be a sci-fi hero first and foremost, regardless of his more recent success as a crime-fighting writer on <em>Castle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And it looks like the former captain of the good ship <em>Serenity<\/em> may be strapping on some space boots once again &#8211; possibly, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Set photos posted today suggest that Fillion will be appearing in the sequel to Marvel&#8217;s 2014 gonzo sci-fi adventure <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/hitlist.asp?theme=Guardians+of+the+Galaxy&amp;utm_source=ee-blog&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=entertainment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/strong><\/em><\/a> as actor Simon Williams. The photos show a series of posters for a Williams retrospective &#8211; including a Tony Stark biopic, implying that the scene occurs in the present day of the MCU.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"imgur-embed-pub\" lang=\"en\" data-id=\"a\/ZTWeW\"><p><a href=\"\/\/imgur.com\/a\/ZTWeW\">View post on imgur.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/s.imgur.com\/min\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>What makes this so exciting is that Simon Williams is (SPOILER!) the alias of Wonder Man, a villain-turned-hero from the Avengers comics. And yes, at one point Wonder Man actually retired from crime-fighting to be an actor.<\/p>\n<p>So we&#8217;re not confirming that Fillion will be kicking ass and taking names alongside the likes of Star-Lord, Iron Man, and Black Widow in the near future. But there is hope that this teaser may be a lead-in for later, more substantial appearances as Wonder Man himself.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no doubt that Fillion would handle a superhero mantle with panache, given his past turns as Captain Hammer and the non-superpowered-but-no-less-heroic Captain Mal Reynolds. And what with the turbulent state of <em>Castle,<\/em> perhaps his schedule will be opening soon. Here&#8217;s hoping that this isn&#8217;t the last we&#8217;ll see of Fillion in the Marvel Universe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2<\/em> will be movin&#8217;, groovin&#8217;, and attitudin&#8217; its way into theatres summer of 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Do you hope to see Fillion in a more substantive role in the Marvel universe in the future? What do you think of this cameo? Sound off below!<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/io9.gizmodo.com\/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-reveals-nathan-fillions-1772901747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">io9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many of us with brown coats in the closet, Canadian-born Nathan Fillion will always be a sci-fi hero first and foremost, regardless of his more recent success as a crime-fighting writer on Castle. And it looks like the former captain of the good ship Serenity may be strapping on some space boots once again [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,3795,108,388,558],"tags":[3145,112,3464,122,195,311,4127,4128],"yst_prominent_words":[8639,9103,8116,22239,31916,18199,6573,6703,7632,7586,6997,8570,11890,25017,15926,31915,9000,19340,8838,31914],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42357"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64296,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42357\/revisions\/64296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42357"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.entertainmentearth.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=42357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}