‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, A New Marvel Film About a Group of Space Misfits That Band Together to Save the Galaxy

The next superhero movie from Marvel Studios is Guardians of the Galaxy — a group of outer space misfits, prisoners, and degenerates that come together to save the galaxy from impending doom. Though originally appearing in 1969, the movie will be using the team from the 2008 version of the Guardians of the Galaxy comic book team.

The film is directed by James Gunn and stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, and the voices of both Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper. In addition, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, and Benicio del Toro will play parts ranging from the main villains to other supporting roles.

Guardians of the Galaxy is set to release in theaters on August 1st, 2014.

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.

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