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Marvel’s VFX Producer Victoria Alonso Talks ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’

by Shawn Madden

While speaking with Cinema Blend, Marvel’s Executive Vice President Victoria Alonso offered up a little bit of info about Jame Gunn’s upcoming space-epic Guardians Of The Galaxy. Alonso revealed that production on the film has already begun and that filming will begin in just a few months.

 

“Production has already started! Completely. It started months ago and we have an entire team in London already – we start shooting in June. Our director [James Gunn] travels next week and it’s going, baby! It’s a fast train to a beautiful place.”

 

Alonso also commented on how they’re handling bringing Rocket Raccoon and Groot to life on the big screen:

 

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“We’re going to do a combination. You can’t do any motion capture with a raccoon – they won’t let you put the suit on [laughs]. But we will do rotomation, probably, for some of the behavior. Rocket will have his own personality, of course, and clearly we can’t do mocap on a tree, per say, but we definitely will have performers to emulate what James Gunn will lead to be the behavior and the performance. He’s very clear on where he wants to take the characters.”

 

James Gunn really has one of the hardest jobs of Marvel’s “Phase Two” here with this film, but we couldn’t be more excited to see the results.

 

Guardians Of The Galaxy is set to hit theaters August 1, 2014.

 

Source: CinemaBlend

‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Characters Getting Visual & Story Updates

by Shawn Madden

Another piece of news coming from the guys over at Latino Review, who so far have been pretty spot on when it comes to Marvel Studios, is that three of the characters in Guardians Of The Galaxy are getting a little more focus at the moment.

Star-Lord, Gamora and Drax The Destroyer will be getting visual and backstory updates to meld them into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It’s easy to see where Star-Lord fits in with the plot synopsis of the film being “a U.S. pilot who ends up in space in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with futuristic ex-cons who have something everyone wants.” You can also tell from the concept art alone that his suit is definitely going to be different than the Star-Lord we’re used to in the comics.

Basically, look for these backstories to get a slight change to make more sense as far as the movies are concerned and their costumes to get a bit of a touch up. Gamora and Drax’s backstories are mainly getting updates due to their connection with the Mad Titan, Thanos.

 

UPDATE: ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Confirmed For 2014 – Release Date Set

by Shawn Madden

Earlier today the internet exploded with excitement (trust me…check Twitter) when it hit that Marvel Studios would be announcing ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ at their San Diego Comic-Con panel.

Well now it seems that Variety has confirmed this report and even announced that the release date would be set at May 16, 2014. It’s also being reported that Nicole Perlman (who previously worked on ‘Thor’) has already written two drafts for the film and Marvel is very happy with her work. Marvel has not officially commented yet.

With a new ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ series as well as a new ‘Nova’ series on the way as well as Guardians appearing in a recent episode of ‘Avengers: Earths Mightiest Heroes’ and Nova having a recurring role in ‘Ultimate Spider-Man’…this announcement comes at no shock to me. But definitely has me excited more than some of the previously rumored movies that we would be seeing next. We better see some Star-Lord though or I fear Scott Alminiana may stab someone.