Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 Will Feature A ‘Newborn’ Adam Warlock, Says Will Poulter

In “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2,” Adam Warlock was created not by scientists on Earth, but by a species of gold-skinned aliens called The Sovereign People, specifically by a high priestess named Ayesha (Elizabeth Debicki). The motivation for creating him remains the same: Warlock will be an attempt to artificially build a perfect being. The Sovereign People had been genetically perfecting themselves for years anyway, and their staid, serious personalities were, in “Vol. 2,” played for laughs; The Guardians, in true Marvel fashion, are all incorrigible wiseacres. 

Gunn, whose films skew toward the irreverent, will no doubt include numerous jokes at Adam Warlock’s expense in “Vol. 3.” But actor Poulter feels that Gunn allowed him the opportunity to explore Warlock’s humanity as well, making explicit that this will be the character’s origin story. He told ScreenRant: 

“The first thing to confront is that I am very, very far from perfect. I think one of the cool things about this character is that James certainly allowed me to kind of explore Adam’s imperfections as well, while he orientates himself. He’s in his infancy at this point of the story, so he’s really trying to [orient] himself in this world as effectively a newborn.”

When tasked with playing a “perfect being,” the challenge remains to find humanity in them. Poulter’s handle, his way into the character, will focus on the fact that Warlock will be inexperienced.