“Marvel owns the story from the comics; Hasbro owns the character,” Gunn said in response to the question.
For anyone who has never heard of this exceptionally obscure part of Marvel’s history, Rom the Space Knight was a character licences to Marvel for a comic book series back in 1979.
Marvel’s comic series delved into the origin of Rom, a human from a planet called Galador.
Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn recently fielded a question about one of these characters when asked about the possibility of him writing and directing a movie based on Rom: Spaceknight.