Throughout the pages of Marvel Comics, the character of Drax the Destroyer is depicted as a green being with red markings all over his body. The on-screen version of the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, however, isn’t green at all. Dave Bautista’s depiction in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies is actually grey. This week, while answering some fan questions on Twitter, writer/director James Gunn explained why the change was made to the character.
Because there were enough green people in the MCU and green is the most difficult color to get to look like actual skin. We tested a lot of colors and the grey simply looked best for the character. https://t.co/fRdSzzpsJM
Oh yeah you just reminded me another reason I didn’t like the green was in some early designs Drax looked too Christmasy for my taste (even though I love Christmas). https://t.co/8AOwpvRRDW
