Sean Gunn has been given small characters in many franchises and universes that he always seems to elevate into memorable and important cogs in the stories he is a part of.
After a great run in the MCU as Kraglin, in his brother, James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy, Sean has moved with James over to the DC Universe, playing the role of millionaire Maxwell Lord in Superman and Peacemaker.
So what’s next for the character? Sean Gunn teased a bit about what he’d like to do with him in a recent interview with ComicBook at the LVLUP Expo in Las Vegas. When asked which corners and characters of the world would he’d be most excited to see Lord bounce off of, Gunn said:
“That’s a tough question without revealing anything, but I can tell you that I am very excited to see Maxwell Lord interact with any corner of the DC Universe. I think that his fingerprints are on a lot of things.
“He isn’t just a billionaire; he is a superbillionaire. He is one of the richest men the world has ever known. We know the kind of power that those people have; he has that power because of his wealth. How will he use that power? How will he exercise it? That’s fascinating to me going forward.
“Who are the people who are sort of adjacent to the Maxwell Lord-type characters, and how do they look at the world? It’s a different worldview for people as wealthy as he is.
“But is there some kind of altruism still in there? Is there a pathway where he’s this wealthy but using it to make the world a better place? Or is he angling for his own sort of power? Or is he angling for his own sort of power?
“It’s stuff that I’m really pleased to explore… There are different incarnations of the character, and I think we have our own. I think we draw from the comics, but we also have our own path that we’re taking with it. I’m really excited to share that with the audience.”
This sounds like a conversation Sean may have had with James before planning out the future of Maxwell Lord in the DCU. It doesn’t reveal much, but it does show that they have plans for the character moving forward.
Right now, Sean Gunn doesn’t have anything DC-related on his upcoming IMDb slate, so we will just have to wait and see where Maxwell Lord pops up again.
