Marvel and Empire release two character covers for the upcoming film.
Anticipation continues to build for Marvel's first foray into deep space, as the studio continues to move forward with its release of Guardians of the Galaxy. What can only be described as the riskiest of the studio's projects, the movie will feature no less than an assassin, the most dangerous woman in the universe, a thief, a walking tree and a talking raccoon. Say what you want about that kind of lineup, but considering all the recent bad press about Ant-man's production troubles, it's certainly generating the welcomed kind of buzz that Marvel needs at the moment.Guardians will be the first Marvel movie to be set far away from Earth (minus the flashbacks of Peter Quill's youth), which represents no less than a massive expansion of the brand that we really haven't seen in this universe. Unlike Thor and Thor: The Dark World - which took place partially off-world - there will be zero familiar faces in GoTG (unless we get an anticipated and rumored Iron Man cameo), and as such moviegoers will need to connect with a whole new (and potentially very dangerous) team of characters.
Today, we got more evidence of just how interesting this universe will be, as Marvel and Empire released covers for the magazine's August issue. Take a look at these:
As you can see, the first image shows off several of the movie's bad guys, including Ronan the Accuser (Lee Pace), Nebula (Karen Gillan) and Korath the Pursuer (Djimon Hounsou). The other image offers new looks at our heroes – Peter Quill the "thief" (Chris Pratt), Gamora the "assassin"(Zoe Saldana), Drax the "warrior" Dave Bautista), Groot the "muscle" (voiced by Vin Diesel), and Rocket the "raccoon" (voiced by Bradley Cooper).
Although the last image is really nothing new, it's the cover of the bad guys that gives us better clues into the enigmatic Ronan the Accuser. In some Marvel comics, he's viewed as a straight-up bad guy Kree who goes around the universe in a short of Judge Dredd roll. But in Anniliation, he joined a rebel group to fight an anti-universe army bent on taking our positive-universe down. Whether he will eventually convert to good or remain a bad guy is part of the interesting path this film is taking. The bigger question of whether general audiences will be attracted to this story has yet to be determined, but with images like these and early reviews looking very good, we won't have long to wait for answer.
Guardians of the Galaxy opens in U.S. theaters on August 1st, 2014.
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