Empire Magazine has revealed their covers for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. The first features the heroes Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Drax (Dave Bautista), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) and Groot (Vin Diesel).
The second cover shows three of the film’s villains which you may not be aware of. They are Korath (Djimon Hounsou), Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace) and Nebula (Karen Gillan).
Guardians of the Galaxy releases on August 1st.
Now, for you Doctor Who fans, here is a selfie of Karen Gillan as advertisement for her new series, aptly named, Selfie.
And with that tagline we see that this will be some fun shit about to go down.
The reason I think Guardians of the Galaxy will ultimately work is that it is so different. Audiences have had seven years to get used to what the Marvel formula is in movies. The only way you do not grow stale is to change things and Guardians is definitely going to be a change.
Now that the first trailer has been released, Marvel is in full-on marketing mode with the poster above as well as individual video profiles for each of the Guardians of the Galaxy. They are only around 30 seconds a piece so give them a watch. We also get our first tiny preview of Bradley Cooper voicing Rocket Raccoon.
Marvel finally took the wraps off of James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy with the first official trailer that premiered on The Jimmy Kimmel Show.
We get introduced to the entire team which include Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista), Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) and Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel).
The feel of the trailer is like no other Marvel movie and I mean that in the best way possible. It is amazing watching Chris Pratt for so long on Parks and Rec then seeing him like this, but he fits the role so well with the snarky attitude.
Guardians of the Galaxy is Marvel’s biggest gamble yet. If you are unaware of the comic, did this trailer give you a reason to be excited? If not, don’t worry. There is still plenty of time to change that.
Now this is more like it. I am tired of looking at concept shots for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Time for the real thing.
First off, let’s get the rundown: Gamora (Zoe Saldana), Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper), Drax (Dave Bautista) and Groot (Vin Diesel).
Second, holy balls is this movie going to be insane in the best possible way. James Gunn being hired by Marvel to direct this is going to be the perfect fit. Now if we can just get Chris Pratt to make a Mouse Rat joke in the movie.
We have known some of the key casting for Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy for a few months now. Parks and Recreation’s Chris Pratt would be Peter Quill aka The Star Lord, ex-WWE wrestler Dave Bautista would go green for Drax, Zoe Saldana takes on another huge sci-fi movie as Gamora and The Walking Dead’s Michael Rooker would be Yondu.
There were still big names cast in the film that had no characters attached including the likes of Benicio Del Toro and Glenn Close, but now it seems that many different outlets are saying that del Toro will play The Collector and Close will be a Nova Corps supervisor that will be Rhomann Dey’s (John C. Reilly) superior.
Take a look at the entire known cast below:
Chris Pratt- Peter Quill/ The Star-Lord
Zoe Saldana- Gamora
Dave Bautista- Drax the Destroyer
Michael Rooker- Yondu
John C. Reilly- Rhomann Dey
Benicio Del Toro- The Collector
Karen Gillan- Nebula
Lee Pace- Ronan the Accuser
Glenn Close- Unnamed Nova Corp supervisor
Also here is a little Eater egg for you Parks and Rec fans out there. Chris Pratt put a picture on his Instagram yesterday showing how his work is going on getting in shape for the role.
Andy Dwyer is getting ripped!
Guardians of the Galaxy releases on August 1, 2014.
Guardians of the Galaxy is shaping up to have one of the most unique casts for a Marvel film by far. Michael Rooker has joined the cast to go along with Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista and the (rumored) addition of Zoe Saldana. Rooker will play Yondu, one of the founding members of the Guardians.
Yondu is from Centauri IV and possesses the ability to have empathic relationships with certain lifeforms and can sense when mystical beings and forces are near.
Let’s just all agree that by adding Michael Rooker, Guardians of the Galaxy just got on a lot more radars, specifically fans of The Walking Dead who might not have heard of the Guardians movie. Although I’m sure Yondu won’t be as much fun as Merle and his stump-handed racism.
Guardians of the Galaxy releases on August 1, 2014.
Yesterday saw the release of the [amazon_link id=”B0083SBMGW” target=”_blank” container=”” container_class=”” ]Marvel Phase One Blu-Ray Set[/amazon_link] that came encased in a handy briefcase and housed a glowing Tesseract replica. Oh and there were 10 discs and six movies in there also. One of the special features was a five minute clip of what to expect from Marvel’s Phase Two which begins with the release of Iron Man 3 on May 3rd. In it we are treated to some test footage from Edgar Wright’s Ant-Man and some early shots of Guardians of the Galaxy storyboards. There is also new footage from Thor: The Dark World and the first artists renderings of Winter Soldier and Falcon from Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Check out some still shots below from the video and then realize that despite what people may say about the character, Ant-Man is going to be completely bad ass in the hands of Edgar Wright.
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy has found its second member. Chris Pratt was cast a few weeks back as Peter Quill, the Star-Lord and now ex-WWE wrestler Dave Bautista is going to play Drax the Destroyer. Drax is a human that was given another body with special powers to take revenge on Thanos. With the movie’s budget I can be pretty sure that they will not just paint him green like an Orion slave girl from Star Trek.
One interesting thought I just had. How rather odd would it be that Dave Bautista could see his star in Hollywood rise to the same level that The Rock has been working on for ten years after just one Marvel movie?
Well it seems like the allure of a big box office wasn’t enough to lure Khal Drogo to the Marvel Universe.
Jason Momoa has turned down the role of Drax the Destroyer in Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy. Reports are that the Marvel offer to the actor was quite low, but that has been the story with a lot of actors in Marvel movies (see: Terrence Howard).
I understand the move by Momoa wanting more money, but let’s face it, sometimes you should bite the bullet to get the exposure. Conan and Bullet to the Head didn’t exactly burn up the box office and seeing as how Khal Drogo was a one season affair in Game of Thrones, being in a Marvel flick would have been serious exposure.
Marvel will now go back to their previous list of actors for the role that included Dave Bautista, Isaiah Mustafa and Brian Patrick Wade.
