Today's News: Guardians assemble!

Another Marvel goodie I posted on MovieScene:

http://www.moviescene.nl/p/152772/eerste_foto_guardians_of_the_galaxy

The more I hear about this project, the more I like it. And this is the first actual shot from Guardians of the Galaxy I've seen now, as opposed to merely drooling over concept art so far (heck, I hardly even know these characters from the comics!). Looks like an eclectic, diverse band of people/vegetables/animals, guaranteed to provide for intriguing interspecies interactions and snappy interstellar repartee. Granted, there is a talking raccoon in there - already the most controversial character of the bunch - but stranger things have happened in the Marvel Universe to good results. I fully trust director James Gunn, known for his outrageous humour and subversive tone (e.g. Slither and Super, if you can stand high levels of gore and trippy shenanigans), with this fascinating property, definitely the true oddball of the cinematic Marvel movies so far. It ought to be, as it explores a whole new part of the Marvelverse hardly touched upon up until now in the movies: the Cosmic corner. Considering all the wild intergalactic ploys, mind-expanding abstract entities and super-supervillains with unimaginably diabolical schemes and egos to match, it's a tough act to do justice. But at least the first picture looks right, as did the teaser scene at the close of Thor: The Dark World. I guess the thing most on Marvelites' minds right now is not whether Gunn will succeed in making this a neat-o space opera, but why he decided to give Drax the Destroyer (second character from the right) a red tan instead of a green one. Maybe the producers figured two green-skinned aliens in the same team would confuse the poor audience's little brains. After all, one of them is a slender, sexy woman and the other a broad-shouldered, overly muscular tall guy, so they look very much alike, both being humanoids and such. We won't have such difficulties identifying that darn raccoon. Or the tree fella, who can only say his name.