Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Eyes Kurt Russell for Key Role

He is apparently director James Gunn’s first choice for the part: another strong indicator that Peter Quill’s papa has at last been located.

The actor is thought to be lined up to play the father of Chris Pratt’s Starlord in the comic-book action film, according to TheWrap.

Pratt will be joined by his returning co-stars Zoe Saldana and Dave Bautista, as well as up-and-coming actress Pom Klementieff, who is new to the sequel. Who Russell would be playing, aside from his familial relations, would likely be kept secret, or at least as secret as Marvel can considering the interest.

But if it all pans out, Russell makes so much sense as he is certainly part of that earlier generation of heroic screen presences who winged it more often than not – the sort Peter Quill emulates as he tours the galaxy.

Kurt Russell has been pretty busy lately, with The Hateful Eight hitting theaters in the next few weeks, and he’s just coming off the massively popular Furious 7, which took in over a billion at the worldwide box office.

Besides “The Hateful Eight”, he can also be seen in the western horror pic “Bone Tomahawk“.

Marvel announced that Guardians of the Galaxy 2 would be released in July 2017, even before the first film opened in cinemas in 2014.