It's being very quiet on the Guardians of the Galaxy, with very little being revealed about Marvel Studio's probably riskiest movie, being based on a property not that well known by mainstream audiences. Well, all that is coming to an end, with the trailer debut tomorrow night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, before it goes on to play in theatres on Friday. Gearing up for that event, USA Today have unveiled some new images from the movie, giving us a better look at the team, and also dropped some serious information from what to expect when the Guardians blow into cinemas in the Summer:
I'm a huge fan of the GotG comics, especially Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's epic run on the series which form the inspiration for the movie, and can't wait to see what James Gunn does with the more outlandish concepts they created, especially Knowhere. Hopefully the movie finds the time to introduce the space station's head of security, Cosmo, a dog formerly used by the Russian space program as a test subject, before drifting off into space and developing telepathic powers. Done properly, this movie will be wonderfully over the top and beyond awesome, and I have full faith in Gunn to pull this off.
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Released: 1st August
The movie teams five disparate personalities: Peter Quill (Pratt), aka Star-Lord, was taken from Earth as a 9-year-old, possesses a mysterious orb artifact and pilots the Milano, a muscle car of a spaceship. Gamora (Zoe Saldana) is connected to Thanos, arguably the cosmos’ biggest baddie. Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) is a muscular dude you don’t want to upset. And then there are the aliens Rocket Raccoon and Groot (computer-generated characters voiced by Bradley Cooper and Vin Diesel, respectively), who are best pals and potentially the biggest things to happen to pop culture since Chewbacca.
Their stories converge in the space prison Kyln. After the characters break out, they venture to Knowhere (the severed head of a celestial being that serves as a hangout for aliens) and visit the weird menagerie of the Collector (Benicio Del Toro). They also have to avoid two villains, Ronan (Lee Pace) and Nebula (Karen Gillan), who are in hot pursuit of Quill’s orb, which has the power to destroy the galaxy.
I'm a huge fan of the GotG comics, especially Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning's epic run on the series which form the inspiration for the movie, and can't wait to see what James Gunn does with the more outlandish concepts they created, especially Knowhere. Hopefully the movie finds the time to introduce the space station's head of security, Cosmo, a dog formerly used by the Russian space program as a test subject, before drifting off into space and developing telepathic powers. Done properly, this movie will be wonderfully over the top and beyond awesome, and I have full faith in Gunn to pull this off.
If you haven't already, check out out handy guide to every Guardians of the Galaxy related.
Released: 1st August
