It was speculated that Del Toro would be playing Thanos, who was teased at the end of The Avengers, but now we’re hearing something different.
The guys over at Comic Book Movie have heard form a reliable source that Del Toro will be playing Taneleer Tivan, The Collector.
Here’s a little on The
Collector, courtesy of
Marvel:
Taneleer Tivan is one of the eldest living beings of the Universe. His species at Cygnus X-1 was one of the first to evolve after the Big Bang. Death took Tivan as the last surviving representative of the species and gave him total immortality – Tivan, as well as one representative of each of the first species of the Universe, cannot die. These people have associated among themselves to create the Elders of the Universe. As they are relatively few, they call each other “brother”.
Tivan spent his first millenia of existence with his wife Matani and daughter Carina in a planet he chose as HQ. Carina eventually reached maturity and left them. After this, Matani died because of mysterious causes. Tivan, who had thought that Matani was as immortal as him, could not resist it.
He eventually understood that a factor in an Elder’s immortality was the will to live, and that Matani had lost hers. Tivan then decided he would not suffer the same fate, and looked for a goal to dedicate his life.
Tivan then had a vision seeing powerful things that would rise, determined to destroy the universe. He decided to avoid this from happening and that he would dedicate his life to collect artifacts and living beings throughout the universe to place them out of danger. Then, after the destruction of the universe, he could re-populate it and bequeath the knowledge and cultures from past. He built a great spaceship and began his work, stopping in every world to get a sample of its greatest achievements, as well as living representatives of each of their life forms.
That’s the just the basics. To read about Tivan’s connection to Thanos head over to
Marvel.
Guardians of the Galaxy hits theatres August 1, 2014.