Up until now, everything about Guardians of the Galaxy has been focused on the titular heroes, with very little time for the bad guys. Well, through James Gunn's Instagram, we get our first real good look (she is only glimpsed in the trailers) of Doctor Who's Karen Gillan's space pirate Nebula, a character the director describes as an "interplanetary Clint Eastwood". Gunn is a big fan of practical effects, and while the movie will have its fair share of CGI (Rocket Raccoon and Groot being the main ones), the aliens that inhabit this universe will mostly be brought to life will traditional make up effects, like we see here. I think this will add a lot of charm to the picture.
Released: August 1st
Synopsis: From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team – the Guardians of the Galaxy. An action-packed epic space adventure, Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy” expands the Marvel Cinematic Universe into the cosmos, where brash adventurer Peter Quill finds himself the object of an unrelenting bounty hunt after stealing a mysterious orb coveted by Ronan, a powerful villain with ambitions that threaten the universe. To evade the ever-persistent Ronan, Quill is forced into an uneasy truce with a quartet of disparate misfits – Rocket, a gun-toting raccoon, Groot, a tree-like humanoid, the deadly and enigmatic Gamora and the revenge-driven Drax the Destroyer. But when Peter discovers the true power of the orb and the menace it poses to the cosmos, he must do his best to rally his ragtag rivals for a last, desperate stand – with the galaxy’s fate in the balance.
