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James Gunn originally had Dave Bautista<\/a> as Peacemaker before John Cena came into the DC Universe.<\/p>\n Bautista left WWE in 2014 and had a successful Hollywood career when he played the role Drax the Destroyer in James Gunn\u2019s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. His was also featured in the Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame and Thor: Love and Thunder.<\/p>\n Over the years, Bautista built a strong acting career and became known as one of the best wrestlers-turned-actors<\/a>. Appeared in movies like Blade Runner 2049, Dune, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery and more. While he made Drax an iconic part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, he almost stepped into James Gunn\u2019s DC Universe as Peacemaker.<\/p>\n Speaking on The Howard Stern Show<\/a>, James Gunn originally created the Peacemaker role with Dave Bautista in mind. However, Bautista chose other movie projects at the time, which opened the door for John Cena.<\/p>\n He said, \u201cI wrote the character of Peacemaker for him, and we offered him the role, but [he] was offered two movies, and we weren\u2019t paying him a lot, so he had to go where the money was.\u201d [H\/T: Fightful<\/a>]<\/p>\n John Cena debuted as Peacemaker in The Suicide Squad in 2021, and the character later headlined his own successful series, Peacemaker, which launched in 2022 to positive reviews.<\/p>\n The show\u2019s second season is currently airing, with episode four scheduled to release on Thursday, September 11. Last week\u2019s episode featured some very creative kills by Peacemaker<\/a>, who used office supplies to eliminate a threat by terrorists.<\/p>\n Read More: John Cena Names The Greatest Wrestler-Turned-Actor Of All Time<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post James Gunn Had a Different Actor in Mind for Peacemaker Before John Cena<\/a> appeared first on Wrestlezone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Gunn originally had Dave Bautista as Peacemaker before John Cena came into the DC Universe. Bautista left WWE in 2014 and had a successful Hollywood career when he played the role Drax the Destroyer in James Gunn\u2019s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy. His was also featured in the Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2015360,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[307230,369459,41332,316700,311035,326584],"class_list":["post-2015359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-dave-bautista","tag-drax-the-destroyer","tag-james-gunn","tag-john-cena","tag-marvel-cinematic-universe","tag-peacemaker"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/James-Gunn-Had-a-Different-Actor-in-Mind-for-Peacemaker.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2015359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2015359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2015360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2015359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2015359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2015359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}