Peacemaker Star Chukwudi Iwuji Officially Joined Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

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The third installment of James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy franchise recently started production. Writer and director James Gunn shared on Twitter an image from the first day of filming, and fans noticed one new face – Chukwudi Iwuji – who previously worked with Gunn on DC show Peacemaker, which will debut in January on HBOMax.

Soon after he posted the first image on Twitter, James Gunn wrote another tweet, confirming that Iwuji joined the Marvel franchise in an undisclosed role. Gunn praised Iwuji’s talent and teased that his role is something that most big names in Hollywood would like to play. We can’t wait to find out what role it is.

https://twitter.com/jamesgunn/status/1457792078050590720?s=21

Iwuji will appear in the upcoming DC show Peacemaker starring John Cena in a titular role. He will play the character Clemson Murn in this spin-off and follow-up of Gunn’s The Suicide Squad. The show also stars Steve Agee, Jennifer Holland, Danielle Brooks, Robert Patrick, and Freddie Stroma.

While the newest Gunn’s DC project will debut soon, and DC Films’ Walter Hamada said that Peacemaker won’t be Gunn’t last DC project, Gunn returned to that other comic book house to helm Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which is set to hit theaters on May 5, 2023.

Written and directed by James Gunn, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 will star Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, and Sean Gunn returning to their respective MCU roles. Will Poulter also joined the film in the role of Adam Warlock.

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Lukas Abramovich is a freelance writer and photo and video editor based in Croatia. He's also a web designer and holds a Master’s degree in general Computer Science from the Faculty of Informatics based in Pula, Croatia. Since 2018, Lukas has worked on several portals writing about movies, TV shows, and video games. He's currently writing articles for two of them: Fiction Horizon and Comic Basics. He also has a YouTube channel in his native language, and the content there is mostly reviewing popular movies and TV shows. Lukas also has an Instagram page where he once used to post fan-made posters he made, which is something he would like to continue working on, as photo and video editing are also some of his passions. Lukas is a big movie lover who is okay with watching any kind of movie. His favorite movie is Michael Curtiz's Casablanca, but he's a loyal follower of Marvel and DC movies, as well as several other blockbuster franchises he's been following for years; Star Wars, Fast & Furious, Mission: Impossible, and James Cameron's Avatar are only some of them. His favorite director is Christopher Nolan, with Quentin Tarantino and Denis Villeneuve as honorable mentions. Lukas is also a big fan of four fantasy multimedia franchises; The Wizarding World, A Song of Ice and Fire, The Witcher, and The Lord of the Rings. He calls them "the four rulers of the fantasy genre." He loves to write about anything spawned from those franchises (books, games, movies...), as well as anything branded with the Marvel or DC logo. Video games and their adaptations are also something he follows faithfully since he's a big fan of story-driven single-player games like Assassin's Creed, The Last of Us, Uncharted, etc. His favorite video game ever is Red Dead Redemption 2.