Yondu Archives

While at the red carpet premiere of Doctor Strange, fellow MCU actor Michael Rooker talked about his problem with time travel, some details on Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 about his character Yondu and that he's a good guy. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2 opens May 5th, 2017. https://youtu.be/oqXWlDSlG9oVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript[...]

So far, from Marvel's upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy animated series we've seen the origin of a young Peter Quill as he is taken (literally) in by Yondu and the Reavers We also got to see how young Groot became the last of his kind In this latest set of clips, we get how Rocket[...]

Yondu is voiced by James Arnold Taylor who has voiced Guy Gardner, The Leader and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Guardians of the Galaxy animated series premiers September 26th on Disney XD. [youtube]https://youtu.be/VQP4Bgm3t28[/youtube] [youtube]https://youtu.be/v_RkePR_pZA[/youtube] Can't get enough of the Guardians of the Galaxy? The wait for May 5th, 2017 too long? Well, Marvel has an animated fix for you[...]

After a short introduction he immediately turned to the audience for questions. Q: What was your favorite role that you have played so far? Rooker: The ones where I got paid! Q: Will you be back as Yondu for Guardians of the Galaxy 2? Rooker: Hell yeah! Q: How long did it take to do the make-up for Yondu? Rooker: It[...]

If you missed last night live Guardians of the Galaxy commentary and Q&A with James Gunn (and he was joined by his brother Sean Gunn and Yondu himself Michael Rooker), you can read it here on Gunn's facebook page. One of the more interesting things to come out of the commentary is that Yondu was supposed to[...]

UPDATE: Diamond Select Toys got in touch with us after we ran the initial version of this article and said that, despite their specific wording, as reported verbatim by Bleeding Cool, Toys 'R' Us did not choose to have Yondu instead of Gamora Diamond chose to give them Yondu as an exclusive, along with the[...]

(A Thanos / Star-Lord connection has been kept throughout comics since through Annihilation and even into the upcoming Original Sins arc in upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy (Volume 3).)  In approaching the movie everything that is in Guardians of the Galaxy (Volume 3) by Brian Michael Bendis is what informs the character best, and has[...]

Now we have Lee Pace – Ronan, Karen Gillan – Nebula, Michael Rooker – Yondu and Glenn Close – Nova Prime to finish out our red carpet interviews from Marvel and Hasbro from the world premier of Guardians of the Galaxy. [youtube]http://youtu.be/Lqnhpm7AAZU[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/gwUMH18H_iM[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/UcRQ5uaDbzI[/youtube] [youtube]http://youtu.be/X5n-3kEqNCU[/youtube] [...]

The first is of the surrogate father figure Yondu played by Michael Rooker and then the Nova Corps gets into the spotlight with Nova Prime played by Glenn Close and Corpsman Rhomann Dey played by John C Reilly. Not to be out done by the Avengers: Age of Ultron photos, the Guardians of[...]

In an interview with USA Today, former The Walking Dead actor Michael Rooker talked about his role as Yondu in the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy movie Since there are spoilers in the interview, let me put up our handy-dandy spoiler graphic.   Seriously… Rooker let's quite a bit out of the bag here[...]

We may have our first semi-official look at Michael Rooker (The Walking Dead) as Yondo in The Guardians Of The Galaxy. ComicBookMovie.com came across

This is Yondu from Guardians Of The Galaxy. And this is Yondu from the upcoming movie version. This is Rogue Trooper. And this is Rogue Trooper without his helmet. I wonder if there was any influence? You know, Grant Morrison's still meant to have written that Rogue Trooper screenplay for Sam Worthington… This is Yondu from Guardians Of The Galaxy. And[...]

The first time I picked up one of the new Guardian books my first thoughts were: "Where are Charlie 27, Martinex, Vance Astro and Yondu?" I do talk to myself like that at times. So after reading some of the new Guardians adventures, I had gotten accustomed to the new team and lack of the originals[...]