Three more character posters have been released for Marvel Studios and James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy, this time giving us a new look at both Zoe Saldana’s Gamora and the sure to be fan favourite CGI creations Groot (Vin Diesel) and Rocket Raccoon (Bradley Cooper).
Also below is a shadowy first look at The Walking Dead star Michael Rooker (and James Gunn movie regular) Michael Rooker as Yondu, a character from the Guardians of the Galaxy comic books who will apparently be an ally to Chris Pratt’s Star-Lord in the final Marvel movie of 2014.
In a post on his Facebook page, Gunn revealed how he managed to get the actor a role in the movie. “Yondu was not in the original script. I added him and wrote the role specifically for Rooker,” he said. “I wasn’t sure Marvel was going to go for either idea, so I was relieved when they responded enthusiastically to both.”
Another actor who was recently revealed as having a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy is Nathan Fillion. He’s appeared in each of James Gunn’s movies, and the director recently debunked reports that he’ll be playing a well-known character like Cosmo or Nova.
Instead, he says that Fillion’s role is so small that the actor could be brought back in a larger capacity somewhere down the line, “if either Joss [Whedon] or I or whoever chose to do that in the future. Which I would love to do.” Apparently scheduling issues prevented that this time around.
Just click on any of the thumbnails below to check out the new posters!
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 entire 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 Quill 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.
Starring Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close and Benicio del Toro, Guardians of the Galaxy is set to be released on August 1st in the US and July 31st in the UK.
