Guardians of the Galaxy 3 ended with a promise: "The legendary Star-Lord will return", but three years later we're no clearer on when or where that will happen. Now, Chris Pratt has revealed there have been "ongoing conversations" with Marvel boss Kevin Feige about making good on GotG 3's promise.
"I have a great relationship with Kevin [Feige] and Lou [D'Esposito], and there have been both ongoing conversations about how we make good on that promise and also hard action taken to make sure that we make good on that promise," Pratt said on The Playlist's Bingeworthy podcast. "So yeah, you'll see Star-Lord again, which is very exciting, but I'm not at liberty to say when that's going to be, but he's not going anywhere."
With Guardians mastermind James Gunn now in charge at DC, and Star-Lord back on Earth and no longer leading the Guardians, what a future Star-Lord appearance looks like is still unclear. Supposed Avengers: Secret Wars concept art leaks featured Star-Lord alongside Vision and the Young Avengers, but directors The Russo Brothers later claimed the art wasn't authentic. Either way, the fact that Pratt, Feige and D'Esposito are in active conversation about Star-Lord's return could mean we see Peter Quill back in the MCU sooner rather than later.
Earlier this year, Pratt told the Happy Sad Confused podcast that he had a "really strong vision" for Star-Lord's next outing, and had already pitched the idea to Feige at the time. "I'm happy to do anything they want me to do and will," he said. "And also, I personally have a really strong vision of what I would want him to do. And I think it's f*cking great. I'm down to contribute any way I can to them setting up the next ten years of storytelling, you know? And also, I have a pretty strong idea of how I think I could contribute to that."
Of course, it's possible that Star-Lord is secretly part of the massive Avengers: Doomsday cast. While he wasn't included in the Avengers: Doomsday cast reveal livestream, Doomsday co-director Anthony Russo recently confirmed there are still surprise cast members in the next Marvel mega-event movie. Could Star-Lord be among them?
Avengers: Doomsday releases in theaters on December 18 in the US, and on December 16 in the UK. For more, check out our guide on how to watch the Marvel movies in order and our list of every upcoming Marvel movie and show.
