{"id":26655,"date":"2013-02-15T18:35:23","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T23:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26655"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:26:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:26:17","slug":"jason-momoa-in-the-running-for-guardians-of-the-galaxys-drax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/15\/jason-momoa-in-the-running-for-guardians-of-the-galaxys-drax\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Momoa In The Running For GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY&#8217;s Drax."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/15\/jason-momoa-in-the-running-for-guardians-of-the-galaxys-drax\/jason-momoa-300\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-26656\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26656\" alt=\"jason-momoa-300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/jason-momoa-300-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Jason Momoa might just be going from Conan the Barbarian to Drax the Destroyer in the span of three years.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple sources have confirmed the\u00a0<strong>Game of Thrones\u00a0<\/strong>star has tested for the role of Drax for\u00a0James Gunn&#8217;s<strong> Guardians of the Galaxy.\u00a0<\/strong>El Mayimbe over at <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130726215637\/http:\/\/latino-review.com:80\/2013\/02\/15\/exclusive-marvel-drax-destroyer-guardians-galaxy\/?\">Latino Review<\/a> says Marvel was so impressed by the test that they offered the part to him on the spot and it all comes down to a matter of money. However, Borys Kit of the Hollywood Reporter states Momoa was only tested and no decision was made yet.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, I think its a good choice. Momoa looks the part and is not a bad actor. While Drax from the comic books isn&#8217;t overly charismatic, Momoa is and can bring a lot to the role.<\/p>\n<p>We should find out soon, because all the ducks need to get in a row posthaste if the film is going to make its scheduled August 1, 2014 opening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">If true, it makes up for the Chris Pratt casting. <\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/15\/jason-momoa-in-the-running-for-guardians-of-the-galaxys-drax\/\" title=\"Jason Momoa In The Running For GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY&#8217;s Drax.\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[106,84],"tags":[6131,4103,4406,5571,4157],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-comicsandfilm","7":"category-news","8":"tag-chris-pratt","9":"tag-conan-the-barbarian","10":"tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy","11":"tag-james-gunn","12":"tag-jason-momoa"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2,4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26655"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=26655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}