{"id":26751,"date":"2013-02-21T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=26751"},"modified":"2025-08-26T15:26:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:26:19","slug":"momoa-apparently-not-drax-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy-after-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/21\/momoa-apparently-not-drax-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy-after-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Momoa Apparently Not Drax In GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY After All."},"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=\"size-full wp-image-26656 alignright\" alt=\"jason-momoa-300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/jason-momoa-300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a> So, last week, El Mayimbe over at Latino Review reported that Jason Momoa was <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20130726215637\/http:\/\/latino-review.com:80\/2013\/02\/15\/exclusive-marvel-drax-destroyer-guardians-galaxy\/?\">all but a done deal<\/a> to play Drax the Destroyer in\u00a0<strong>Guardians of the Galaxy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>We <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/15\/jason-momoa-in-the-running-for-guardians-of-the-galaxys-drax\/\">reported it<\/a>, but since we were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/05\/marvels-2014-mystery-film-may-be-black-panther\/\">burned by El Mayimbe before<\/a>\u00a0and other Hollywood insiders were saying Marvel was still testing for the role, we decided to post it just as a possibility and not as a done deal. It turns out that was a sound practice to employ.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicbookmovie.com\/news\/?a=74600\">ComicBookMovie.com<\/a>\u00a0reposts the news from El Mayimbe&#8217;s Twitter feed (not from Latino Review, strangely enough) where he backslid and announced that Marvel was still testing for the role Drax. Oh, he didn&#8217;t admit that he was wrong. His story goes that his info was correct, that Momoa was offered the role, but his agents priced the actor out of contention.<\/p>\n<p>Whether that is really the case or not, the bottom line is that the hunt for Drax goes on&#8230;and I will take whatever El Mayimbe says with an even bigger grain of salt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Oh, El Mayimbe, how can we ever trust you again?<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/21\/momoa-apparently-not-drax-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy-after-all\/\" title=\"Momoa Apparently Not Drax In GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY After All.\">[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":[84],"tags":[2978,4406,4157,2979],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-el-mayimbe","8":"tag-guardians-of-the-galaxy","9":"tag-jason-momoa","10":"tag-latino-review"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[4],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751","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=26751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26751"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=26751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}