RATINGS: IMDB ―8.1/10, Rotten Tomatoes ― 91%, ME ― 90%
Rocket Raccoon: But Quill, beating Ronan... it can't be done. You're asking us to die.
Peter Quill: Yeah... I guess I am.[pause]
Gamora: [stands up] Quill, I have lived most of my life surrounded my enemies. I will be grateful to die among my friends.
Drax the Destroyer: [stands up] You're an honorable man, Quill. I will fight beside you. And in the end, I will see my wife and daughter.
Groot: [stands up] I am Groot.Rocket Raccoon: Aww, what the hell, I don't got that long a lifespan anyway...
[stands up]
Rocket Raccoon: Well now I'm standing. Happy? We're all standing now. Bunch of jackasses, standing in a circle.
Bradley Cooper (voice) as Rocket Racoon, Chris Pratt as Peter Quill, Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer and Vin Diesel (voice) as Groot
Trivia (From IMDB):
When Dave Bautista found out he got the role of Drax the Destroyer, he broke down in tears, overjoyed at getting a Marvel comic-book role. He prepared for the role with an acting coach.
Vin Diesel recorded all his lines in several different languages, including Russian, Mandarin, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and French, so that they could use his real voice in the film around the world.
Chris Pratt apparently stole his Star Lord costume from the set, for the sole purpose of having it available so he could show up in costume to visit sick children in the hospital who might want to meet Star Lord.
James Gunn stated that Chris Pratt's audition was so good, he was prepared to offer him the role even if Pratt did not lose weight or get in shape in time. Gunn joked that he was willing to CGI a six pack on Pratt's body. However, Pratt asked Gunn to give him six months to lose fifty pounds and he ended up losing sixty pounds.
The soundtrack album "Awesome Mix, Vol. 1" reached number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, the first film soundtrack ever to do so without any original music. It was also nominated for the 2015 Grammy Award for Best Soundtrack.
According to Vin Diesel, his performance as Groot helped him through a dark time in his life; he was dealing with the loss of his best friend and "Fast and Furious" co-star Paul Walker: "It was the first time I came back to dealing with human beings after dealing with death, so playing a character who celebrates life in the way Groot does, was very nice."
According to Vin Diesel, the voice of Groot, he recorded Groot's iconic line, "I am Groot," over 1,000 times.
According to James Gunn, Star-Lord's obscene gesture was an improvisation by Chris Pratt.
Zoe Saldana nearly broke Chris Pratt's ribs while filming a fight sequence. During training, Pratt and Saldana would wear protective gear so they could actually hit each other. However, when the day came to film the scene, Pratt forgot to wear his protective gear and did not tell Saldana because he thought she would hold back if she knew. Saldana (under the impression he was wearing the gear like he usually did) kicked him square in the ribs, which made Pratt fall to the ground. According to Pratt, he had a bruise for the remainder of filming.
Chris Pratt cites heroes Han Solo and Marty McFly as influences on his performance as Star-Lord.
Star-Lord's line, "If I had a blacklight, this place would look like a Jackson Pollock painting," was ad-libbed by Chris Pratt.
The scene where Peter drops the orb during the Collector scene was also not scripted. According to the commentary, Chris Pratt accidentally dropped the orb during filming, but remained in character through the whole thing, so it stayed in the final film.
When arrested, Rocket's attributes list his known associates: Groot and Lylla. Lady Lylla is a Sentient Otter and soulmate to Rocket in the Marvel Universe.
James Gunn has confirmed, via Twitter, that Peter Quill's ship in the film is named The Milano after Alyssa Milano, Peter Quill's childhood crush.
James Gunn didn't want to see Chris Pratt auditioning. He was convinced later by his assistant, at the end of the auditions. After Pratt read for thirty seconds, Gunn stated that then he knew that Pratt was perfect for the role.
Bradley Cooper told Howard Stern that he was paid more for voicing Rocket in this movie, than for starring in Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and The Hangover (2009) combined.
Prior to release, Bill Mantlo, the comic book writer who created Rocket Raccoon and has been permanently hospitalized due to the severity of a crippling traffic accident in 1992, was granted a private screening by Marvel Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures. According to his brother, Michael Mantlo, Bill was pleased with the adaptation (which credits him by name as the character's creator) and considered the occasion a happy day for him and his family.
The opening cave scene was originally written around "Hooked On A Feeling", but James Gunn felt "Come and Get Your Love" worked far better.
The cassette player used by Peter Quill was the Sony TPS-L2. It was the first personal cassette player released in 1979. It was originally called the "Soundabout", then changed to "Walkman."
It took the make-up artists five hours daily to do makeup and apply eighteen prosthetic tattoo pieces onto Dave Bautista. Chris Pratt revealed that during the process, Bautista stood the entire time, with hands holding onto rails which had tennis balls on them, with no complaints whatsoever. Eventually, the process was narrowed down to an average of three hours, while ninety minutes were required to remove the make-up.
Drax's comment about Groot's ability to release "fireflies", "When did you learn to do that?" is an inside joke, as Groot has never shown this ability in the comic books.
Zoe Saldana wanted to portray Gamora through make-up, rather than computer graphics imagery, or performance capture.
James Gunn would keep a pile of little Play-Doh containers on set. If someone did an especially amazing job that day, whether it was an actor, a grip, a stunt man, or a personal assistant, he or she would get a canister of Play-Doh. Gunn says he gave out forty containers over the entire shoot, on an 85-day shoot, with a crew of two hundred: "I love the smell of Play-Doh; opening a new container and smelling it puts me in a creative, child-like place. And who doesn't love playing with Play-Doh?"
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Iron Man was planned to have a cameo role in this film (in homage to his being the Guardians' latest member in the comics around 2013), but this was scrapped when Robert Downey Jr. said he may not reprise his role as Tony Stark in the future. Downey has since signed a contract to reprise the role for two 'Avengers' sequels.
Vin Diesel loved his character, Groot, so much, he would go to promotions and premieres wearing the stilts he wore for the movie and a shirt proclaiming "I Am Groot."
Chris Pratt and Dave Bautista spent two and a half months training and rehearsing for their fight scene. On the Friday night before the Monday that they were scheduled to film the scene, James Gunn decided that the fight wouldn't work on camera, so he scrapped the entire fight sequence they had been practicing. Gunn also decided he wanted the entire fight to be filmed in one long shot with no cuts. As a result, Pratt and Bautista only had a few hours to learn the choreography for the fight sequence, which is in the movie. According to Bautista, it took them 22 takes to get it right on film.
Chris Pratt went on a very strict training regimen and diet for six months and dropped sixty pounds, eventually getting a six-pack for his shirtless scenes. Chris Pratt said it was a lot of hard work, almost 'torturous', but when he was filming his shirtless scenes and saw the playback on the monitor, he felt the effort was well worth it, and was "extremely excited to see the best possible physical version of himself."
Stan Lee's cameo was originally going to feature him as one of the Collector's boxed trophies, giving Groot the middle finger. Disney executives didn't like this and had James Gunn change it to Stan Lee being an alien Casanova.
The Collector's residence in the film is the space station Knowhere. In the comics, Knowhere is the base of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
After filming finished, James Gunn gave Dave Bautista a Drax lunchbox to add to his collection of vintage lunchboxes. Meanwhile, Bautista gave Chris Pratt and Zoe Saldana some custom WWE Championship belts.
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Benicio Del Toro's uncredited cameo as The Collector in Thor: The Dark World (2013) was written to set the stage for this film.
Thanos almost got cut from the movie, but James Gunn decided to keep him for a connection to The Avengers (2012).
In the comics, Drax is green. However, for the film, his color was changed to a muddier grey, partly because the movie already had a bright-green character (Gamora), but mostly to distinguish his appearance from the Hulk.
According to James Gunn, the film's soundtrack is composed mainly of 1970s-80s songs, as they are part of Quill's memories of Earth: "The music is one of those touchstones we have to remind us that Quill is a real person from planet Earth who's just like you and me, except that he's in this big outer space adventure."
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According to the filmmakers, Rocket Raccoon in this film is a unique product of experimentation: "He's a little animal who was taken and experimented on and pulled apart and put back together again and implanted with cybernetics and he's half-machine and half-raccoon. And he's a gnarled, miserable, angry creature because there's nothing else like him. And that's something not easy to be."
Djimon Hounsou took the role of Korath for the sake of his son: "I have a son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman. One day he looks at me and says 'Dad, I want to be light-skinned so I could be Spider-Man. Spider-Man has light skin.' That was sort of a shock." In recent years, in the Marvel Ultimates comic book universe, the Spider-Man mantle has been held by Miles Morales, a half-black, half-Hispanic teenager.
Bradley Cooper cited Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci's character in Goodfellas (1990)) as an influence on Rocket Racoon's voice.
At one point, Quill calls Rocket "Ranger Rick", a reference to the long-running children's nature magazine which features a cartoon raccoon with that name.
Chris Pratt thought it was extremely important "to have the physicality of a comic book hero" to play Star Lord. Growing up, he had "always been fascinated with the anatomy of comic book heroes" and he would always draw them as very "cut and ripped" and felt he had to appear similar in order to do the role justice.
Josh Brolin is uncredited, and in fact was the last person cast. He was offered the role while filming Everest (2015). He based the characterization of Thanos primarily on Marlon Brando's role of Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now (1979).
When Vin Diesel started recording his lines for Groot, he was pleasantly surprised to find himself working with an old friend, Doc Kane, the sound technician he'd worked with on The Iron Giant (1999).
Rocket Raccoon was modeled on a raccoon named Oreo living in the UK.
"Cherry Bomb" was actually played on set as the characters made their epic entrance before the final battle, to help them get into character. Tyler Bates composed the original score before the filming process began so it could be played on set to also help the actors' performance in certain scenes. "Cherry Bomb" is also the name of the band from the movie 'Howard The Duck'. Howard the Duck appears in the end-of-credits scene, and was the first movie based off of a Marvel comic.
James Gunn reasoned that the usage of songs from the 70s would help grounding to reality and providing fun juxtaposition. In an interview, he revealed he had compiled a list of hit songs, which appear in the Billboard charts during this time, and narrowed it down to 120 to be considered for use in the film. It helped Gunn entirely throughout production, as some scenes were either filmed around the music as it played in the background, or it served as inspiration for him to write a scene around the track.
Yondu's primary weapon is a sentient arrow. In the comics, Yondu was an archer.
The Guardians of the Galaxy is primarily based on the 2008 comic team (Star-Lord, Gamora, Drax, Rocket Raccoon and Groot), but features Yondu, a member of the original 1969 comic team, as an ally.
Benicio Del Toro described the Collector as "Liberace in outer space."
In Dutch, Afrikaans, and Flemish, "Groot" means "big." "I am Groot" would therefore mean "I am big."
The sales of "Hooked on a Feeling" shot up by 700 percent after the release of the film's first trailer which prominently featured the song.
When the Guardians are negotiating with the Collector, and the holograms of the infinity stone's sisters are shown, both the Aether and the Tesseract from the Thor movies can be seen.
In the movie, Yondu is portrayed as a villainous mercenary. However, in the comics, Yondu is of a tribal warrior race.
The film has even generated renewed interest in and demand for personal cassette players, especially classic Walkmans, like Peter's.
When we first see Bereet aboard the Milano, she is wearing the t-shirt young Peter was wearing when he was abducted from Terra.
Vin Diesel would record his lines wearing stilts so he could get a sense of how large Groot actually is.
Features the first onscreen appearance of a Celestial's severed head. The Celestials are an ancient race of godlike beings who watch over and change the universe for both good and evil.
James Gunn's brother Sean Gunn, who did the on-set acting for Rocket, improvised the line "A bunch of jackasses standing in a circle."
Chris Pratt said that a shirtless "selfie" of himself from during the filming of Zero Dark Thirty (2012) won him the role of Star Lord in this film. On a chat show where Pratt was appearing on, he had released a photo of himself in his underwear, flexing and showing off an excessively ripped and muscular body. It was this photo that convinced the film-makers of The Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) that he could actually get in shape and play a superhero. During final meetings, they brought out the picture of him and asked him if he could get back that physique. He promised them that he could, and he actually surpassed it with an even more rigorous six-month training schedule.
The Avengers (2012) director Joss Whedon, who signed a deal to creatively consult on all of the Marvel Cinematic Universe films, was enthusiastic about the selection of James Gunn to direct.
Djimon Hounsou found his costume and make-up as Korath very uncomfortable and rigid. He channeled this discomfort into his action sequences.
To prepare for the role of Nebula, Karen Gillan shaved her head.
Alexandra Byrne was flustered when measuring Djimon Hounsou for his outfit; she stated that he was so perfectly built, she could put a beanbag on him and he'd make it look good.
James Gunn compared the Avengers and the Guardians to music bands: "The Avengers are like The Beatles, but the Guardians are like The Rolling Stones!"
The dog, which appears in the hologram Quill projects over the ruins on Morag, is James Gunn's own dog, Wesley Von Spears.
According to James Gunn, Star-Lord's ship the Milano is based on a hot rod: "Its environment is reminiscent of Earth and has a tangible quality - mechanical with chrome and leather and a muscle-car look."
The trailer featured several bits and pieces (and lots of dialogue) of scenes, which then didn't appear in the completed film, such as Zoe Saldana seen topless from behind.
In the film, Ronan the Accuser is an admiral serving under Thanos. This combines his classic Marvel comics portrayal (a top-ranking military governor) with his Marvel Ultimate comics portrayal (an ally of Thanos).
Gamora says she doesn't dance. Zoe Saldana is in fact, a professionally trained ballerina.
James Gunn cites Iron Man (2008) as an influence on the film: "We are starting Phase 2 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. This is Marvel Cosmic. And we're doing exactly what they did with the first Iron Man film."
In the unreleased trailer shown at the 2013 Comic-Con and D23 Expo, Peter Quill giving the finger to the Nova Corps officers was not blurred and did not have the "Obscene Gesture Alert" graphic. This was intentionally added in the official trailer for general audiences.
James Gunn's favorite song is Jackson 5's "I Want You Back", and he was delighted to get a chance to feature it in the film.
The main city seen from above on Xandar, as well as the ships flown by the Nova Corps, sport the same design as the logo on the helmet of Nova from the comics, who has close ties to the Guardians.
Nicole Perlman is the first woman to be credited for writing a Marvel screenplay.
According to the mid-credit scene of Thor: The Dark World (2013), the Collector is already in possession of the reality infinity gem and wants to own all of them.
When the Collector is showing the Guardians the history of the Infinity Stone, Groot puts his fingers through a hologram of the Tesseract (also an Infinity Stone).
Peter "Star-Lord" Quill escapes from the planet, Morag, after an encounter with The Sakaarans. Their home world, Sakaar, is where The Hulk's spaceship lands in the "Planet Hulk" comic.
While devising a plan to stop Ronan, Quill says he has "twelve percent of a plan", the same percentage of credit Tony Stark gives Pepper for the planning of Stark Tower in The Avengers (2012).
Rocket (voiced by Bradley Cooper) makes fun of Quill's knapsack, calling it a purse. In The Hangover (2009), Bradley Cooper (Phil) makes fun of Alan's satchel, calling it a purse.
Joel Edgerton, Eddie Redmayne, Jensen Ackles, Lee Pace, Wes Bentley, Jack Huston, Cam Gigandet, Sullivan Stapleton, Logan Marshall-Green, Garrett Hedlund, Chris Lowell, James Marsden, Jim Sturgess, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Aaron Paul, Michael Rosenbaum, Glenn Howerton, and John Krasinski auditioned and screen tested for the role of Peter Quill/Star-Lord.
James Gunn has stated several times that Rocket was a big, if not the main, reason he wanted to make this movie. In fact, when it was confirmed that the film was a hit, Gunn put a heartfelt thank you letter online, specifically thanking everyone for letting a Raccoon make them a little more human.
Nebula is Thanos' daughter in the film, but is his granddaughter in the comics.
The Guardians of the Galaxy was first published in January 1969 with a different team. The new team in the film, is also composed of characters who existed in Marvel Comics prior to the first Star Wars movie:
-Star-Lord appeared in Marvel Preview #4 (January, 1976).
-Rocket Raccoon appeared in Marvel Preview #7 (Summer, 1976).
-Gamora appeared in Strange Tales #180 (June, 1975).
-Drax the Destroyer appeared in Iron Man #55 (February, 1973).
-Groot appeared in in Tales to Astonish #13 (November, 1960).
According to James Gunn, Ronan's ship, the Dark Aster, is designed after a mausoleum: "It's minimal and brutal, a stark gray colorless world devoid of any set dressing whatsoever, and relying purely on its heavy concrete-like architecture to convey its tone and function."
In the space prison, it says in Rocket's description: "Warning: Tendency to bite."
Adam Sandler, David Tennant, Sharlto Copley, Jim Carrey, and H. Jon Benjamin were considered to voice Rocket Raccoon.
In the space prison, Peter Quill's description mentions: "A.K.A.: Space Lord." This is a reference to the running gag that no one seem to remembers Quill's outlaw name, Star-Lord, throughout the film.
The film sets up the third phase in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, particularly Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Untitled Avengers Movie (2019).
This story of how Drax has trouble with language really struck a chord with an autistic child. Dave Bautista re-posted the story on his Facebook page, commenting, "I have to say this is pretty awesome and unexpected."
Almost all the voices of the Sakaarans were done by James Gunn and assistant director Simon Hatt.
The character Yondu supposedly sports a Mohawk-style hair as depicted in comics, but James Gunn decided not to give his friend Michael Rooker a wig, reasoning that Rooker's clumsiness would be a foil to his acting.
James Gunn has stated, on his Facebook page, that unlike most films, Tyler Bates would write some of the score in advance, so the director could film to the music.
Bradley Cooper (Rocket) and Zoe Saldana (Gamora) starred as a couple in the romance film The Words (2012), and were in an offscreen relationship until shortly before production of this film started.
Was the highest grossing film of summer 2014 at the North American box office, becoming the first August release to top the summer box office since ticket sales were regularly tabulated in the mid-1970s.
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The first non-Avengers Marvel property developed by Walt Disney Pictures.
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Cosmo, a telepathic dog from the early Soviet space missions, and member of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the comics, has a cameo during the Collector's scenes on Knowhere.
Yondu was originally meant to be killed off in the end of the movie.
As of August 2014, this movie holds the record for being the widest August release in over 4,080 theaters, breaking the previous record holder, which was G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009) with 4,007 theaters.
Before the final "big battle" scene, the Guardians are all together in a circle, and one-by-one they stand up and verbally commit to join Quill's mission. When Rocket stands up, he distinctly performs, (what is known in the Trek universe), as the "Picard Maneuver." Rocket stands up and (with both hands, or paws) tugs the bottom of his uniform top, presumably to insure a nice crisp fit. It is unknown if this was an intentional nod to the Trekkers in the viewing audience, but most Picard fans likely caught this in the movie.
Olivia Wilde turned down the role of Gamora, while Gina Carano, Rachel Nichols, and Adrianne Palicki auditioned, before the role went to Zoe Saldana.
When Rocket asks Quill for the prisoner's prosthetic leg, you can hear him (Rocket) giggle a bit.
Jason Momoa auditioned and was offered the role of Drax the Destroyer, but turned down the role because he didn't want himself to be pigeonholed as a brute by the audience (having played several action roles) and to free himself up to direct Road to Paloma (2014).
The film was nominated for two Academy Awards at the 87th Academy Awards, Best Make-up Achievement and Achievement in Visual Effects, but lost out to The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) and Interstellar (2014).
James Gunn once joked about how George Lucas heavily edited the original Star Wars trilogy for re-releases. After the release of this film, Gunn admitted he would like to go back to re-edit several scenes like Lucas.
It's been confirmed that unlike in the comics, Jason of Spartax is not Peter Quill's father in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Peyton Reed was considered to direct this film. He was later chosen to direct Ant-Man (2015) another Marvel Cinematic Universe film.
This film identifies the Collector's Assistant (Ophelia Lovibond) as Carina; in the comics, the Collector's daughter was named Carina Walters.
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) is the first Marvel Cinematic Universe film to not have a kissing scene. (Quill and Gamora almost kissed at Knowhere before Gamora withdrew at the last moment).
The Nova Corps world, Xandar, is based mainly on the designs of modern Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.
HIDDEN MICKEY: At the very end of the film, as the ship is taking off, you can see three suns in the distance; looking very much like silhouette of Mickey Mouse's head.
According to producer Victoria Alonso, Rocket Raccoon and Groot were created through a mix of motion-capture and rotomation visual effects.
On October 21st, Marvel announced that the mix tape from the film will be released on audio cassette later on November 17th until December 31st.
The seven pointed flame emblem the Ravagers have on their clothes was originally the emblem the original seven members of the 2008 Guardians Of The Galaxy MARVEL comic, from which this movie takes its inspiration.
London's Millennium Bridge can be seen during the the Battle of Xandar.
In the beginning of the movie, the Missouri flag is seen on the nurses' desk next to where Peter Quill is sitting. James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri.
When attending the 18th Nantucket Film Festival, Glenn Close stated that she only agreed to star in the film since "it will then afford me to go do the other kind of movies that I really love." However, she followed it up by saying; "And hopefully I will have a great time. It'll be a new experience for me, but practically speaking it will mean that I can do those smaller movies and it'll be okay."
The film was released 28 years to the day after Howard the Duck (1986). The titular character appears in the post-credits sequence.
Before being cast as Yondu, Michael Rooker expressed interest in playing Rocket Raccoon, and there was a large fan petition trying to make it happen.
The Badoon (recurring enemies of the Guardians in the comics) couldn't be used, since their rights belong to 20th Century Fox's Fantastic Four franchise, even though supplementary material has established their existence in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Sakaarans were used to fill the gap.
Three soundtracks were released for this film: Tyler Bates' score, an album of the songs on Quill's walkman mixtape, and a "deluxe" compilation of the two albums. The mixtape album was actually given a limited release on cassette - the first cassette released by Walt Disney Group since 2003 (the cassette version also included a digital download version of the album).
The first film of 2014 to cross the 300 million dollar mark in the U.S.
In the comics, Peter Quill has often been the significant other of "X-Men" heroine Kitty Pryde, a.k.a. Shadowcat.
According to James Gunn, the stinger at the end of Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) with Baron Von Strucker and the twins was originally the stinger for this film, but the scene ended up being used for Winter Soldier instead.
This is the second film to feature Vin Diesel and Dave Bautista in starring roles together. The first was Riddick (2013).
The t-shirt young Peter Quill (and later Bereet) wears, is for the fictional J.D. Canoe Rental on the real Dolores River in Colorado.
Thanos' cameo in the end credits of The Avengers (2012) and The Collector's cameo in Thor: The Dark World (2013) set the stage for "Guardians of the Galaxy."
When Groot and Rocket capture Quill and Gamora, Rocket tells Groot to get him, referring to Quill. Despite the use of a male pronoun, Groot mistakenly aims for Gamora instead, who is a female. This implies that Groot does not understand gender, and may in fact be of a genderless species.
In the comic books, Peter Quill's father is J'Son aka "Jason of Spartax", Emperor of the Spartoi Empire.
James Gunn interviewed many voice actors for Rocket Raccoon, before deciding to go for a celebrity to voice the character.
Highest rated Marvel movie on IMDb.com, as of December 2014.
The Guardians of the Galaxy debuted in Marvel Super-Heroes #18 in January 1969. Dave Bautista was born on January 18, 1969.
During Rocket's line-up, his known aliases list Phyla-Vell, known in comics as Quasar/Captain Marvel. She is also the lover of Drax's daughter.
The Collector and Carina were first seen in the mid credit scene in Thor: The Dark World (2013).
The character of The Other, as voiced by Alexis Denisof, first appeared in The Avengers (2012). He was the one who gave Loki the staff that contains the Mind gem (confirmed in Avengers: Age of Ultron). He also appeared in the post credits scene introducing Thanos.
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In the film's Japanese dub, Star-Lord is voiced by Jun'ichi Suwabe. He was chosen because he played a similar character in Space Dandy (2014).
The first Marvel Cinematic Universe film, not featuring Iron Man, to cross 300 million dollars in the U.S.
Towards the end Star-Lord calls Ronan "turd blossom", the nickname George W. Bush affectionately used for Karl Rove.
The character Bug, a former thief who became a Guardian of the Galaxy, was included in early versions of the script.
Nebula first appeared in The Avengers #257 in July 1985.
Early drafts featured Nova (although it's unclear as to which Nova, Richard Rider, or Sam Alexander) as a central character. He was cut once James Gunn took over, as he took away focus from Star-Lord's story, and because Gunn dislikes the character.
Hugh Laurie, Alan Rickman, and Ken Watanabe were considered for roles.
When interviewed by Bogart the Explorer, Dave Bautista theorizes that Drax shares their Filipino heritage, explaining that Drax's skill with knife-fighting makes him "a Kali guru."
Several characters talk about Kevin Bacon in Footloose (1984). Bacon appeared in leading villain roles in both the Marvel Comics film X-Men: First Class (2011) and the James Gunn film Super (2010).
HIDDEN MICKEY: When the Guardians arrive on Knowhere to sell the sphere, the roof of the Collector's club looks like the Mickey Mouse ears available at Disney parks.
In the comics, Drax the Destroyer was born Arthur Douglas, a man assassinated, together with his family and wife by a Thanos' experiment. Later, cosmic entity Kronos (Thanos' grandfather) captured Douglas' soul before he arrived to Afterlife, and placed him in a new and powerful body, in order to stop Thanos' plans to get the Cosmic Cube (the Tesseract shown in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011). As Arthur Douglas, he was father of Heather Douglas, super-heroine Moondragon.
Dave Bautista left WWE to promote the film.
Chapter Four of Phase Two in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
In an episode of Parks and Recreation (2009), the ending of a conversation between the characters Ben Wyatt and Andy Dwyer (played by Ben Scott and Chris Pratt respectively) is heard. Wyatt is heard saying "And all you did was stop drinking beer?", to which Dwyer responds "Yeah, and I lost like sixty pounds". This is a reference to his weight loss to prepare for his role as Peter Quill/Star Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014).
As well as using London's Millennium Bridge to double as a location on Xandar, the bird's-eye view shots also include other features of the London skyline, such as 30 St. Mary Axe a.k.a. The Gherkin.
The highest grossing Marvel film of 2014.
Stan Lee was originally slated to cameo in the Collector's collection on Knowhere, in which he would have flipped off Groot from within a display case (possibly a reference to the fact that Groot is the only member of the team that Lee had any hand in creating). The scene was cut, because Lee was in England at the time, and couldn't be reached for filming.
James Gunn wanted to have Rom the Space Knight pop up in the movie, but was unable to do so, because Marvel did not have the rights to use the character. (It is currently owned by Hasbro after they acquired Parker Brothers.)
Chris Pratt (Star Lord) and Peter Serafinowicz (Denarian Saal) also appear together on Parks and Recreation (2009), where their characters have quite a few similarities.
It was rumored Karen Gillan was going to play Angela, a sword wielding bounty hunter, also from the "Guardians of the Galaxy" comics. But, Karen Gillan instead plays the evil cyborg Nebula.
Beret, the red-skinned girl on Peter Quill's ship, is an homage to the "Rampaging Hulk" comics story. She was an alien, helping the Hulk and Rick Jones to stop an alien invasion.
The French dub is globally more polite and kid-friendly than the original version.
At beginning of the movie, when Young Quill is listening to his music, two mini flags can be seen; one is the United States flag and the other is the Missouri state flag, indicating Quill's current location.
Early drafts of the script included Bug. He was even back in the Guardians' comic relaunch to promote the character briefly. He was left out because Marvel doesn't own the film rights to the character.
This is the second movie starring John C. Reilly that features an "Awesome Mix" tape. The first was Boogie Nights (1997).
When entering Knowhere, it is said to be a planet of outlaws, with little to no order. Later during the big fight of the Guardians, Peter Quill gets the group to calm down by yelling they are about to make a trade for four billion units. It's hard to believe no one in a planet of outlaws would try and attack them for the orb to get the money themselves. - This is not a goof, since all Quill says is "four billion units", he doesn't give away any further information. The four of them would have to be captured, and then tortured for information, and since Quill said "one more night", he made it known that it was time sensitive. The only way to truly get the money, would have been to follow them and wait, until they had their money.
This film reunites Michael Rooker, Gregg Henry, Nathan Fillion, Rob Zombie and Lloyd Kaufman, who were all in James Gunn's feature film debut Slither (2006) and subsequent Super (2010). Gunn himself also played small roles in all of the movies.
In the Marvel Comics, Star-Lord, Peter Quill, has a sentient ship that communicates telepathically with him. Also, a "widget", which stays by his side, is part of the "ship" as well. The "ship" also has a human-looking 3-D avatar.
The film was made to bring cosmic characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Rachel Nichols was also considered for the role of Gamora, which eventually went to Zoe Saldana. Both actresses appeared in Star Trek (2009), in which Rachel's character Gaila was also green in color, like Gamora.
Isaiah Mustafa, Brian Patrick Wade, and Jason Momoa were considered for the role of Drax the Destroyer.
The film has three collaborators who voiced villains in the Star Wars Universe: Peter Serafinowicz (playing Denarian Saal) did the Voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999); Supervising Sound Editor Matthew Wood provided the voice for General Grievous from Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005); and Seth Green, who voices Howard the Duck, did the voice of the antagonistic service droid Todo 360 in several episodes of Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008). Interestingly, Benicio Del Toro, who plays the Collector in this movie, was supposed to play Darth Maul in The Phantom Menace before he dropped out, but has been cast in Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) in a yet unknown role.
Laura Haddock also played a minor role in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011).
Drax (Dave Bautista) has the image of a red skull on his left arm.
Benicio Del Toro and Ophelia Lovibond, who play master and slave in this movie, share a birthday of February 19.
Zoe Saldana (Gamora) and Bradley Cooper (Rocket) were once a couple.
The songs "Wichita Lineman" by Glen Campbell and "Mama Told Me Not To Come" by Three Dog Night were considered for the Guardians' trip to Knowhere before David Bowie's "Moonage Dream" was chosen.
Actor Pete Buzzsaw Holland played the part of a prisoner held in The Kyln, and had to taunt Gamora from outside her cell. He also played a prisoner in DC's The Dark Knight Rises (2012), encouraging Bruce Wayne to escape the prison pit. He is one of the few actors to play characters in both the Marvel and DC universes, and in both cases, a prisoner who does some shouting.
Drax never wears a shirt for the entirety of the film.
Chris Pratt was 35 years old when he starred in this movie. Harrison Ford, who played Han Solo in the "Star Wars" saga, was also 35 when he first played the role in Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977). Star-Lord and Han Solo are the same kind of space-movie stock character.
Quill refers to their group as a "bunch of losers." Zoe Saldana (Gamora) had previously starred in the comic book film The Losers (2010), alongside "Captain America" Chris Evans.
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Thandie Newton was considered for the role of Gamora. Ultimately Zoe Saldana was cast.
Chris Pratt played Bright Abbott on the television show Everwood (2002). His sister on the show, Amy Abbott, is played by Emily VanCamp, who plays S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent Kate/Agent 13 in Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014).
During production, James Gunn at one point became concerned that he was making the next The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002).
Peter Quill calls one of Korath's guards a Ninja Turtle. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014) was released on August 8th, shortly after this film was released. An ad for the film, released when it returned to the number one spot at the U.S. box-office, after Turtles held the spot for two straight weeks, edited the 'Ninja Turtle' line into "Take that, Ninja Turtle!"
Chris Pratt read for the role of Captain James T. Kirk in J.J. Abrams's Star Trek (2009). Zoe Saldana played Nyota Uhura in the film.
In the original comics, Drax the Destroyer was a human, named Arthur Douglas. Thanos attacked him and his family, because he thought they'd seen his ship. He and his wife died. His daughter, Heather, survived the attack and was adopted by Mentor (Thanos' father). She's a powerful telepath, who's been both villain and hero. Kronos, (Thanos' grandfather) whose spirit had merged with time and space, resurrected Douglas as Drax the Destroyer, a living weapon, designed to hunt and kill Thanos. The comic Drax was green, had super strength, could fly, and shoot powerful energy beams. Whenever he came face to face with Thanos, he went into a berserker rage. His anger ratcheted up his powers to equal Thanos. One fight between them was so intense, that they shattered the planet they were on, into debris.
Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider.
The director James Gunn paid tribute to his first horror comedy film, Slither (2006). This movie was about a small town being invaded by slimy body-snatching alien slugs. They reappear in "The Guardians of the Galaxy" for a cameo as part of the Collectors' collection.
Vin Diesel and Michael Rooker both provided voices in The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay (2004).
One of two Summer 2014 blockbusters to feature a furry character named Rocket. The other is Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014).
Gamora is trained as a weapon by Thanos, after Thanos murders her family and adopts her. In Zoe Saldana's earlier film Colombiana (2011), Colombiana becomes a trained assassin after her family is murdered.
Djimon Hounsou previously appeared in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), also about a quest for an orb with the power to be a world-destroyer.
Drax the Destroyer is an obvious nod to Conan the Barbarian. Drax seeks revenge upon Ronan, who slew Drax's wife and child. Marvel Comics had started making comic books of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories in 1970 written by Roy Thomas. Jason Momoa, who turned down the role of Drax, played Conan in the remake Conan the Barbarian (2011).
The first letters of exactly half of the titles on the soundtrack anagram to "comics" or "cosmic." Marvel often uses the word "cosmic" when referring to events that take place away from Earth.
Towards the end of the film, there is a montage set to "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", featuring Marvin Gaye. In the same year, Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) (also set in the Marvel Universe) ended with a montage set to "Trouble Man" by Marvin Gaye.
Gal Gadot revealed that she was up for the role of Nebula, before it went to Karen Gillan. Gadot was later cast as Wonder Woman in Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Wonder Woman (2017), from Marvel's comic book competitor DC Comics.
On James Gunn's official Facebook page on February 24, 2016, a member of the official page had called the film "The best science fiction film since Star Trek (2009)". Zoe Saldana, who plays Gamora, played Lieutenant Nyota Uhura in "Star Trek", and Chris Pratt had auditioned for Captain James T. Kirk, but Chris Pine was cast.
The name Ronan is a fairly popular name in Ireland. There was even a Saint Ronan who was born in Ireland and sailed to France. The name is said to mean "little seal".
Djimon Hounsou and Tomas Arana both appeared in Gladiator (2000).
Chris Pratt previously starred opposite James McAvoy in Wanted (2008). James McAvoy played Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), which released the same year as this film.
In Parks and Recreation: Fancy Party (2011), Chris Pratt's character calls himself "the luckiest man in the galaxy."
In the comics, Yondu prefers archery as a way of defense. Michael Rooker, who portrays Yondu in the film, also appeared in the television series The Walking Dead (2010) as Merle Dixon. Merle's brother Daryl is a famed archer in the show.
During the Broker scenes, chromatic glass cubes can be seen. These were created by California based glass artist Jack Storms.
Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, Drax, Groot, and Yondu are all characters in the video game, Disney Infinity: Marvel Super Heroes (2014).
Before she was announced to play Nebula. Karen Gillan had been rumored to be played a sword wielding bounty hunter called Angela from the "Guardians of the Galaxy" comic book, who is like "Red Sonja in space". Due to the fact that Angela has red hair, wears a gold bikini, and wields a sword. The character of Red Sonja, who appeared in Marvel comic books created by Roy Thomas and Barry Windsor-Smith, was known for having red hair, wearing a bikini, and for fighting with a sword.
Many features of modern London, England can be seen on Xandar, including the Millenium Bridge, and the buildings known as the Shard and the Gerkin.
The word "groot" appears in James Joyce's "Finnegan's Wake".
Robert Firth portrays Dr. Fitzgibbon, the attending physician in the opening scenes of the film. His character is named after a personal friend of Gunn's―there's a Fitzgibbon in every one of his films. Unfortunately for Firth, his scenes were cut from the final edit. He plays yet another physician―Dr. Stillwell―in the Oliver Stone thriller Snowden (2016). Fortunately for Firth, in that film, portions of his performance still remain.
Chris Pratt starred in Parks and Recreation (2009) in which Pratt's character goes to London to work for Peter Serafinowicz (Denarian Saal). The movie was filmed in London as well.
Djimon Hounsou played opposite Scarlett Johansson in The Island (2005). Johansson plays the recurring character Natasha Romanov/Black Widow in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Sean Gunn (Kraglin/On Set Rocket) and Gregg Henry (Grandpa) have both appeared in the television show Gilmore Girls (2000). They played Kirk Gleason and Mitchum Huntzberger respectively. Both are also regulars of James Gunn with Sean being a brother of latter.
Zoe Saldana's fourth science fiction film, and the second science fiction film, in which she has played an extra-terrestrial.
The story begins with the young and future Star-Lord on Earth in 1988. Though there is likely no connection, there was a PC video game issued in 1987 called "Star Lord" by SoftBook.
Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper) is an expert marksman and sniper. Cooper also played an expert marksman and sniper in American Sniper (2014).
James Gunn wanted to use the song "Top of the World" by Greek Fire - a rock band from his native St. Louis - in the film, but ultimately nixed the idea in favor of an all 1970s soundtrack. The song would later appear in trailers for another Marvel film, Big Hero 6 (2014).
The third collaboration between James Gunn and his regulars, Gregg Henry, Michael Rooker, Rob Zombie and Nathan Fillion. Gunn has directed them in Slither (2006), and Super (2010), of which the latter is also a superhero film. Lloyd Kaufman also appears in all of the three movies, but he and Sean Gunn had also collaborated with James Gunn on a number of earlier projects.
Nebula is a cyborg. There was a science fiction film about cyborgs which was called Nemesis 2: Nebula (1995).
In the scene with Quill and Gamora on Knowwhere and she is listening to his Walkman. The entrance way behind them looks very similar to a large ARC reactor like the one Iron Man uses.
Star-Lord's blaster is reminiscent of the ones used in Disney's another movie The Black Hole (1979).
Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden were considered to direct the film.
This is Brendan Fehr's second appearance in a movie based on a Marvel comic. The first was X-Men: First Class (2011) where he appeared as a Communications Officer aboard a U.S. Navy ship. Kevin Bacon who starred in "First Class" also mentioned prominently in the movie.
This is the second Marvel movie of 2014 to have a a montage near the end of the film set to a Marvin Gaye song. In Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), it's the song "Trouble Man"; in "Guardians of the Galaxy", it's the song "Ain't No Mountain High Enough."
Sean Gunn and Michael Rooker also appear in The Belko Experiment (2016), also written by James Gunn, and released months apart from the sequel of "The Guardians of the Galaxy".
John C. Reilly and Michael Rooker previously appeared together in Days of Thunder (1990).
Yondu, and the Ravagers, call the planet Earth "Terra" (which is Latin). Coincidentally, this is how it is called in Italian (but its inhabitants are not called Terran, but "Terrestri").
This film features two of five Doctor Who (2005) stars to have roles in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Karen Gillan and Peter Serafinowicz were in the series, as well as Christopher Eccleston (Thor: The Dark World (2013)) and Toby Jones (Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) (which also included Jenna Coleman) and Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)).
Peter Quill's "Awesome Mix, Vol. 1" is a reference to Rahad Jackson's "My Awesome Mix Tape #6" from Boogie Nights (1997).
The Hunter-Seeker assassination device from Dune (1984) is considered an influence behind Yondu's arrow.
After finishing working on the film, Karen Gillan would star in the short film Bound for Greatness (2014) and the short-lived American comedy series Selfie (2014).
John C. Reilly's reference to a "code name" when he captures "Star-Prince" is a sort of inside joke about his and Will Farrell's code names in the movie Step Brothers (2008).
Drax is called "Drax the Destroyer" because he slays Ronan the Accuser's cohorts as he seeks revenge upon Ronan for murdering his wife and daughter. A plausible nod to Robert E. Howard's fantasy character Conan the Barbarian. Conan, who is known also as Conan the Conqueror and Conan the Avenger, et cetera, sought revenge after his Cimmerian tribe were massacred. The Conan the Barbarian stories were adapted into Marvel comic books. Jason Momoa, who played Conan in Conan the Barbarian (2011), was offered to play Drax the Destroyer, but turned it down.
Cameo ―
Stan Lee: as one of the Xandarian citizens Rocket scans while looking for a bounty. Lee got this cameo because although he did not create the Guardians of the Galaxy, he is the official co-creator of the character Groot, along with Jack Kirby and Dick Ayers.
Nathan Fillion: the blue alien Groot picks up by the nostrils in the Kyln.
Lloyd Kaufman: As Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, and Groot walk into the prison, they are greeted by a row of angry inmates standing on a balcony; Kaufman is at the left of the screen, shouting "Murderer!" at Star-Lord.
Tyler Bates: composer appears as a ravager pilot.
Rob Zombie: ravager navigator. Zombie always appears in movies by James Gunn albeit in voice cameos only.
Nathan Fillion: the blue alien Groot picks up by the nostrils in the Kyln.
Lloyd Kaufman: As Star-Lord, Gamora, Rocket, and Groot walk into the prison, they are greeted by a row of angry inmates standing on a balcony; Kaufman is at the left of the screen, shouting "Murderer!" at Star-Lord.
Tyler Bates: composer appears as a ravager pilot.
Rob Zombie: ravager navigator. Zombie always appears in movies by James Gunn albeit in voice cameos only.
Spoilers ―
The mid-credits scene where Groot dances to "I Want You Back" was animated using footage of James Gunn dancing privately to the song.
Djimon Hounsou auditioned for the role of Drax and Lee Pace auditioned for Peter Quill/Star-Lord. Both were later cast as the villains. Hounsou said that after he saw Dave Bautista, and how ripped he was, he knew why he wasn't cast, and admitted that Bautista was the perfect choice for the role.
Marks the appearance of the fourth infinity stone which is the Power stone (inside the orb Quill stole), the others being the Tesseract (space) seen in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and The Avengers (2012), the second the stone in Loki's staff (mind) in the Avengers and the post credits scene in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and the third being the Aether (reality) seen in Thor: The Dark World (2013). Making Power, Reality, Space, and Mind the stones whose whereabouts are known, while Time, and Soul remain unknown.
James Gunn wanted to put the dancing Groot scene at the very end of the film, but decided it was too good to leave it to the end, and made it a mid-credits scene.
The crew played a prank on Dave Bautista during the dance-off scene, where Ronan was to accept the challenge ("It's on!") and dance, at which Bautista had to improvise his own dance. It was so good, that James Gunn made it as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray and DVD.
The Collector's collection includes various species: A Chitauri from The Avengers (2012). -A Dark Elf (from Thor: The Dark World (2013). A cocoon holding Adam Warlock, a cosmic being who became a member of the Guardians (the cocoon is seen empty in the post-credits scene). A dog in a C.C.C.P. (former U.S.S.R.) cosmonaut suit who snarls at Rocket. This is Cosmo, a Russian dog who became a member of the Guardians (and is constantly on bad terms with Rocket). Howard the Duck, who makes an appearance in a case. A slime creature from James Gunn's previous film Slither (2006).
In Ronan the Accuser's first scene, when he kills the Xandarian with his hammer, the blood flows down into the pool where Ronan first awoke and is the same color as the liquid that Ronan emerged from, revealing that he sleeps fully immersed in the blood of his enemies.
Unlike other Marvel Cinematic Universe films, this one contains very few references to the other titles in the franchise. Amongst the few that are present, are the brief appearance of Thanos (who was teased in the The Avengers (2012) end credit scene), and the Tesseract / Cosmic Cube clearly visible, as one of the Infinity Gems the Collector describes.
There are just six Infinity Gems: Soul, Time, Mind, Space, Power and Reality. Each one gives a special power to its protector: Soul Gem, allows holder to manipulate, steal, control, and alter any soul (living or dead). Souls may also be captured to an inner universe called "Soul World." Time Gem, allows total control over the past, present, and future. The Time Gem also allows holder to travel in time, change the age of living beings in any direction, and trap enemies (or even entire universes) in eternal time loops. At full potential, the Time Gem is capable of granting Omniscience. Mind Gem, allows universal telepathy. The Mind Gem allows holder to read and control the mind of anyone (or EVERYONE). The Mind Gem also allows the holder to project thought to any living being of the universe. Space Gem, grants the holder the ability to exist in any location (or all locations at one time). The holder of the Space Gem also has the ability to move any object anywhere throughout reality, rearrange space, and teleport to any place in the universe. At full potential, the Space Gem is capable of granting Omniscience. Power Gem, allows total access to all of the power and energy in existence (this includes all power that has ever or will ever exist). The Power Gem has the ability to boost the effects of other gems, and it is capable of duplicating almost any physical superhuman ability. At full potential, the Power Gem is capable of granting omnipotence. Reality Gem, allows the fulfillment of any wish, even if it contradicts any universal laws (ability to destroy reality with generation of a paradox).
When entering the Kyln, Quill refers to Groot as "Giving Tree," foreshadowing Groot's fate in the film. "The Giving Tree" is a 1964 book by Shel Silverstein about a tree that gives everything it can to its human friend, eventually sacrificing itself for the man, all out of friendship and love.
Howard The Duck can actually be spotted an additional time before his after-credits scene. When Quill and the rest of the team first arrive at The Collector's gallery, as The Collector turns around to face them, you can briefly see Howard sitting in his glass box in the background above and just to the right of The Collector's head.
Peter Quill learns that he is only half-human (on his mother's side). According to the comics, his father is Emperor J'son of Spartax; James Gunn has said that this is not the case in the film, but Quill's middle name is Jason, as a tribute to the comics.
In the comic book, Peter Quill was born to a human mother and an alien father and assumed his mantle of Star-Lord, an interplanetary policeman. In the film, Peter Quill/Star-Lord was born in the late 1970s or early 1980s, also to a human mother but not knowing of his father's true (alien) identity. He then gets abducted, and raised by a group of interstellar thieves and smugglers called The Ravagers.
All of the Guardians have a near death experience: -Drax almost drowns, but is rescued by Groot. -Gamora freezes and nearly dies in space until Star-Lord saves her. -Rocket crashes a ship through Ronan's ship, and is knocked out. -Groot explodes, but grows back. -Star-Lord grabs the Infinity Gem, and is shown to be in massive pain until the other Guardians help him.
Adam Warlock was featured in the screenplay as a cameo at the end of the film. This idea was cut from the script, but Adam's cocoon appears as one of the Collector's possessions, and is shown damaged and empty in the post-credits scene.
In the backstory behind The Ravagers abducting Quill, Yondu and The Ravagers were hired by Peter's father to pick up Peter on Earth (The night Meredith Quill died) and bring Peter to his father, but they reneged.
This is Howard the Duck's second cinematic appearance, exactly 28 years and one day after Howard the Duck (1986) released. Besides Howard's cameo, the song "Cherry Bomb" is heard during the film; Cherry Bomb was the name of Beverly's band in the 1986 film.
When The Collector shows a recording of previous owners of the Infinity Gems, the being who uses the Power Gem to destroy a planet is Eson the Searcher, a Celestial that appeared in the comic book Eternals #9 in 1977.
The casting of Howard the Duck was the idea of the film's editor Fred Raskin. Kevin Feige loved it - James Gunn recalled "he couldn't stop laughing every time he saw it, he was like, 'We're f****** crazy!"
Originally, James Gunn was to include additional scenes in the closing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" montage; this included Quill's grandfather looking into space, the Collector in his wrecked archives, and Nebula angrily stomping in a field. Only the Collector made it into the film, as a post-credits scene.
The orb stolen by Quill contains one of the Infinity Gems, more accurately, Power Gem. In the 90's comics, Drax was a member of the Infinity Watch (together with Adam Warlock, Gamora, Moondragon, and Pip the Troll). Each member of the Watch protected one of the gems: -Adam Warlock - Soul Gem. -Gamora - Time Gem. -Moondragon - Mind Gem. -Pip the Troll - Space Gem. -Drax the Destroyer - Power Gem. -Thanos - Reality Gem (secret guardian until "The Infinity Crusade").
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According to Kevin Feige, each Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 movie, pays tribute to Star Wars franchise, in the form of a character who loses an arm (Anakin Skywalker lost a hand in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), and Luke Skywalker lost a hand in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)). Iron Man 3 (2013), Aldrich Killian loses an arm during the battle with Tony Stark. Thor: The Dark World (2013), Loki cuts off Thor's right arm on Svartalfheim. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Bucky lost his left arm during his fall from the train. Guardians of the Galaxy, Gamora cuts off Groot's arms during the group's initial scuffle on Xandar, and Nebula cuts off her own hand to get away from Gamora. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ultron cuts off the right arm of Ulysses Klaue.
When the character Nebula falls from Ronan's warship, she lands on a Nova fighter ship, punches through the windshield, and states "Get out!", forcing the unfortunate pilot to jump out. This may be a nod to the famous helicopter scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
The basic strategy the heroes employ with their spaceships (trying to hold off the enemy before he makes it to the ground) was inspired by Space Invaders (1981).
Seth Green: The voice of Howard the Duck, who appears in the Collector's laboratory in the post-credit scene.
At the end of the film, Gamora tells Drax his family could rest knowing he had avenged them, to which he explained that his true enemy and target was Thanos. This may be a nod to the comics, where Drax was a human, whose family had been killed by Thanos, who had just landed on Earth. It was after this event, Drax had devoted the rest of his life to killing Thanos.
During the escape scene, one of the guards says that "the animal is in control", in reference to Rocket, before he is tackled by Drax (Dave Bautista). Bautista's WWE nickname was The Animal.
In the movie, Thanos is looking for the Infinity Gems. The same plot was depicted in the limited series "Thanos Quest" (published in 1990), where Thanos gets all the Gems, becoming a God.
In the climactic showdown on Xandar, Star-Lord, portrayed by Chris Pratt, distracts Ronan by breaking into an impromptu rendition of O-O-H Child by The Five Stairsteps. In The Lego Movie (2014) (another 2014 satirical blockbuster), Emmett the hero (voiced by Pratt yet again) distracts a colony of threatening Robots, by initiating a sing-along to the catchy tune "Everything is Awesome" during a crucial scene.
Throughout the whole film, Star-Lord almost never speaks whenever he puts on his mask. The only time he does, is after Drax kills Korath, close to the end of the film, and tries using the metaphor "finger to the throat." Star-Lord then responds; "yeah, sort of", and later; "oh no," when a group of Sakaarans appear.
According to Go Compare, this movie holds the world record for the highest number of deaths: 83,871.
Although Drax the Destroyer's wife and daughter were murdered by Ronan the Accuser, Corpsman Dey's wife and daughter survive Ronan's attack on Xandar, are alive and well, and are seen reuniting with Dey at the end of the movie.
James Gunn explained that the reason why Groot freezes when Drax catches him dancing is because he knows Drax disapproves of it. Drax's dislike of dancing would be elaborated upon in the second Guardians of the Galaxy film.
In the post-credit scene, the duck with the Collector, is Howard The Duck, another Marvel character.
Each Marvel superhero movie has a main theme: -Iron Man (2008) and sequels - Weaponry and technology. -The Incredible Hulk (2008) - Mutation and nuclear power. -Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and sequels - Experimentation and espionage. -Thor (2011) and sequels - Mythology and religion. -Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - Extra-terrestrial life and cosmic beings. -Ant-Man (2015) - Telepathy and control of animals. -Doctor Strange (2016) - Magic and witchcraft. -The Avengers (2012) - Alien Invasion. -Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) - Artificial Intelligence.
In the comic series/crossover of the late 1970s , Thanos is in search of all the infinity stones to appease his lover "Death", whom he has only seen a glimpse of in the story. With all the gems, he would destroy the entire universe for his lover, Death. He is thwarted by Adam Warlock, who is dead and trapped in the "soul" gem, and is called back to reality to stop the "mad God" Thanos. By leaving the soul gem, he grasps Thanos and turns him to stone, thus averting the destruction of the universe. While Losing his lover "Death". In the comic world of the soul gem, there is a world which is inhabited by all the beings absorbed by the gem. In it, all the enemies who have been absorbed, are friends. Gamora also has a black mask around her eyes similar to what is on an Australian Blue Heeler.
In the comic books, Groot is repeatedly regrown from a twig and possesses the same memories and personality each time, leading fans to assume that this would be the case in the films as well. However, when the sequel film was released, James Gunn revealed that Baby Groot does not possess any of the original's memories and is actually a different being. This means that Groot did indeed die saving his comrades in this film.
Djimon Hounsou auditioned for the role of Drax and Lee Pace auditioned for Peter Quill/Star-Lord. Both were later cast as the villains. Hounsou said that after he saw Dave Bautista, and how ripped he was, he knew why he wasn't cast, and admitted that Bautista was the perfect choice for the role.
Marks the appearance of the fourth infinity stone which is the Power stone (inside the orb Quill stole), the others being the Tesseract (space) seen in Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and The Avengers (2012), the second the stone in Loki's staff (mind) in the Avengers and the post credits scene in Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), and the third being the Aether (reality) seen in Thor: The Dark World (2013). Making Power, Reality, Space, and Mind the stones whose whereabouts are known, while Time, and Soul remain unknown.
James Gunn wanted to put the dancing Groot scene at the very end of the film, but decided it was too good to leave it to the end, and made it a mid-credits scene.
The crew played a prank on Dave Bautista during the dance-off scene, where Ronan was to accept the challenge ("It's on!") and dance, at which Bautista had to improvise his own dance. It was so good, that James Gunn made it as a bonus feature on the Blu-ray and DVD.
The Collector's collection includes various species: A Chitauri from The Avengers (2012). -A Dark Elf (from Thor: The Dark World (2013). A cocoon holding Adam Warlock, a cosmic being who became a member of the Guardians (the cocoon is seen empty in the post-credits scene). A dog in a C.C.C.P. (former U.S.S.R.) cosmonaut suit who snarls at Rocket. This is Cosmo, a Russian dog who became a member of the Guardians (and is constantly on bad terms with Rocket). Howard the Duck, who makes an appearance in a case. A slime creature from James Gunn's previous film Slither (2006).
In Ronan the Accuser's first scene, when he kills the Xandarian with his hammer, the blood flows down into the pool where Ronan first awoke and is the same color as the liquid that Ronan emerged from, revealing that he sleeps fully immersed in the blood of his enemies.
Unlike other Marvel Cinematic Universe films, this one contains very few references to the other titles in the franchise. Amongst the few that are present, are the brief appearance of Thanos (who was teased in the The Avengers (2012) end credit scene), and the Tesseract / Cosmic Cube clearly visible, as one of the Infinity Gems the Collector describes.
There are just six Infinity Gems: Soul, Time, Mind, Space, Power and Reality. Each one gives a special power to its protector: Soul Gem, allows holder to manipulate, steal, control, and alter any soul (living or dead). Souls may also be captured to an inner universe called "Soul World." Time Gem, allows total control over the past, present, and future. The Time Gem also allows holder to travel in time, change the age of living beings in any direction, and trap enemies (or even entire universes) in eternal time loops. At full potential, the Time Gem is capable of granting Omniscience. Mind Gem, allows universal telepathy. The Mind Gem allows holder to read and control the mind of anyone (or EVERYONE). The Mind Gem also allows the holder to project thought to any living being of the universe. Space Gem, grants the holder the ability to exist in any location (or all locations at one time). The holder of the Space Gem also has the ability to move any object anywhere throughout reality, rearrange space, and teleport to any place in the universe. At full potential, the Space Gem is capable of granting Omniscience. Power Gem, allows total access to all of the power and energy in existence (this includes all power that has ever or will ever exist). The Power Gem has the ability to boost the effects of other gems, and it is capable of duplicating almost any physical superhuman ability. At full potential, the Power Gem is capable of granting omnipotence. Reality Gem, allows the fulfillment of any wish, even if it contradicts any universal laws (ability to destroy reality with generation of a paradox).
When entering the Kyln, Quill refers to Groot as "Giving Tree," foreshadowing Groot's fate in the film. "The Giving Tree" is a 1964 book by Shel Silverstein about a tree that gives everything it can to its human friend, eventually sacrificing itself for the man, all out of friendship and love.
Howard The Duck can actually be spotted an additional time before his after-credits scene. When Quill and the rest of the team first arrive at The Collector's gallery, as The Collector turns around to face them, you can briefly see Howard sitting in his glass box in the background above and just to the right of The Collector's head.
Peter Quill learns that he is only half-human (on his mother's side). According to the comics, his father is Emperor J'son of Spartax; James Gunn has said that this is not the case in the film, but Quill's middle name is Jason, as a tribute to the comics.
In the comic book, Peter Quill was born to a human mother and an alien father and assumed his mantle of Star-Lord, an interplanetary policeman. In the film, Peter Quill/Star-Lord was born in the late 1970s or early 1980s, also to a human mother but not knowing of his father's true (alien) identity. He then gets abducted, and raised by a group of interstellar thieves and smugglers called The Ravagers.
All of the Guardians have a near death experience: -Drax almost drowns, but is rescued by Groot. -Gamora freezes and nearly dies in space until Star-Lord saves her. -Rocket crashes a ship through Ronan's ship, and is knocked out. -Groot explodes, but grows back. -Star-Lord grabs the Infinity Gem, and is shown to be in massive pain until the other Guardians help him.
Adam Warlock was featured in the screenplay as a cameo at the end of the film. This idea was cut from the script, but Adam's cocoon appears as one of the Collector's possessions, and is shown damaged and empty in the post-credits scene.
In the backstory behind The Ravagers abducting Quill, Yondu and The Ravagers were hired by Peter's father to pick up Peter on Earth (The night Meredith Quill died) and bring Peter to his father, but they reneged.
This is Howard the Duck's second cinematic appearance, exactly 28 years and one day after Howard the Duck (1986) released. Besides Howard's cameo, the song "Cherry Bomb" is heard during the film; Cherry Bomb was the name of Beverly's band in the 1986 film.
When The Collector shows a recording of previous owners of the Infinity Gems, the being who uses the Power Gem to destroy a planet is Eson the Searcher, a Celestial that appeared in the comic book Eternals #9 in 1977.
The casting of Howard the Duck was the idea of the film's editor Fred Raskin. Kevin Feige loved it - James Gunn recalled "he couldn't stop laughing every time he saw it, he was like, 'We're f****** crazy!"
Originally, James Gunn was to include additional scenes in the closing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" montage; this included Quill's grandfather looking into space, the Collector in his wrecked archives, and Nebula angrily stomping in a field. Only the Collector made it into the film, as a post-credits scene.
The orb stolen by Quill contains one of the Infinity Gems, more accurately, Power Gem. In the 90's comics, Drax was a member of the Infinity Watch (together with Adam Warlock, Gamora, Moondragon, and Pip the Troll). Each member of the Watch protected one of the gems: -Adam Warlock - Soul Gem. -Gamora - Time Gem. -Moondragon - Mind Gem. -Pip the Troll - Space Gem. -Drax the Destroyer - Power Gem. -Thanos - Reality Gem (secret guardian until "The Infinity Crusade").
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According to Kevin Feige, each Marvel Cinematic Universe Phase 2 movie, pays tribute to Star Wars franchise, in the form of a character who loses an arm (Anakin Skywalker lost a hand in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002), and Luke Skywalker lost a hand in Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)). Iron Man 3 (2013), Aldrich Killian loses an arm during the battle with Tony Stark. Thor: The Dark World (2013), Loki cuts off Thor's right arm on Svartalfheim. Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Bucky lost his left arm during his fall from the train. Guardians of the Galaxy, Gamora cuts off Groot's arms during the group's initial scuffle on Xandar, and Nebula cuts off her own hand to get away from Gamora. Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015), Ultron cuts off the right arm of Ulysses Klaue.
When the character Nebula falls from Ronan's warship, she lands on a Nova fighter ship, punches through the windshield, and states "Get out!", forcing the unfortunate pilot to jump out. This may be a nod to the famous helicopter scene in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991).
The basic strategy the heroes employ with their spaceships (trying to hold off the enemy before he makes it to the ground) was inspired by Space Invaders (1981).
Seth Green: The voice of Howard the Duck, who appears in the Collector's laboratory in the post-credit scene.
At the end of the film, Gamora tells Drax his family could rest knowing he had avenged them, to which he explained that his true enemy and target was Thanos. This may be a nod to the comics, where Drax was a human, whose family had been killed by Thanos, who had just landed on Earth. It was after this event, Drax had devoted the rest of his life to killing Thanos.
During the escape scene, one of the guards says that "the animal is in control", in reference to Rocket, before he is tackled by Drax (Dave Bautista). Bautista's WWE nickname was The Animal.
In the movie, Thanos is looking for the Infinity Gems. The same plot was depicted in the limited series "Thanos Quest" (published in 1990), where Thanos gets all the Gems, becoming a God.
In the climactic showdown on Xandar, Star-Lord, portrayed by Chris Pratt, distracts Ronan by breaking into an impromptu rendition of O-O-H Child by The Five Stairsteps. In The Lego Movie (2014) (another 2014 satirical blockbuster), Emmett the hero (voiced by Pratt yet again) distracts a colony of threatening Robots, by initiating a sing-along to the catchy tune "Everything is Awesome" during a crucial scene.
Throughout the whole film, Star-Lord almost never speaks whenever he puts on his mask. The only time he does, is after Drax kills Korath, close to the end of the film, and tries using the metaphor "finger to the throat." Star-Lord then responds; "yeah, sort of", and later; "oh no," when a group of Sakaarans appear.
According to Go Compare, this movie holds the world record for the highest number of deaths: 83,871.
Although Drax the Destroyer's wife and daughter were murdered by Ronan the Accuser, Corpsman Dey's wife and daughter survive Ronan's attack on Xandar, are alive and well, and are seen reuniting with Dey at the end of the movie.
James Gunn explained that the reason why Groot freezes when Drax catches him dancing is because he knows Drax disapproves of it. Drax's dislike of dancing would be elaborated upon in the second Guardians of the Galaxy film.
In the post-credit scene, the duck with the Collector, is Howard The Duck, another Marvel character.
Each Marvel superhero movie has a main theme: -Iron Man (2008) and sequels - Weaponry and technology. -The Incredible Hulk (2008) - Mutation and nuclear power. -Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) and sequels - Experimentation and espionage. -Thor (2011) and sequels - Mythology and religion. -Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) - Extra-terrestrial life and cosmic beings. -Ant-Man (2015) - Telepathy and control of animals. -Doctor Strange (2016) - Magic and witchcraft. -The Avengers (2012) - Alien Invasion. -Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) - Artificial Intelligence.
In the comic series/crossover of the late 1970s , Thanos is in search of all the infinity stones to appease his lover "Death", whom he has only seen a glimpse of in the story. With all the gems, he would destroy the entire universe for his lover, Death. He is thwarted by Adam Warlock, who is dead and trapped in the "soul" gem, and is called back to reality to stop the "mad God" Thanos. By leaving the soul gem, he grasps Thanos and turns him to stone, thus averting the destruction of the universe. While Losing his lover "Death". In the comic world of the soul gem, there is a world which is inhabited by all the beings absorbed by the gem. In it, all the enemies who have been absorbed, are friends. Gamora also has a black mask around her eyes similar to what is on an Australian Blue Heeler.
In the comic books, Groot is repeatedly regrown from a twig and possesses the same memories and personality each time, leading fans to assume that this would be the case in the films as well. However, when the sequel film was released, James Gunn revealed that Baby Groot does not possess any of the original's memories and is actually a different being. This means that Groot did indeed die saving his comrades in this film.
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