GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Artwork Reveals Never Before Seen Character
Artist Tom Nelson (Thor: The Dark World) has updated his website with artwork from James Gunn's Guardians of The Galaxy. The concept art also reveals a character that that didn't make it on-screen. Check it out after the jump.
Thomas Nelson (Thor & Thor: The Dark World) has added new artwork that he for James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy to his website. The new artwork includes concept art and storyboards for the hit blockbuster film.
Among the concept art, are designs for a character that didn't make the film, Lord Tantalus. In the comics Lord Tantalus is a member of the Deviant race, and was an experiemnt of the Dreaming Celestial. While talking with AMC News James Gunn had revealed that Tantalus was originally included in the script, but didn't make the cut, and the art below offers us our first look at how the character may have looked.
The storyboards also reveal a scene that was not featured in the film. The scene sees Gamora (Zoe Saldana) holding a blade to the neck of Drax the Destroyer (Dave Bautista) in what looks to be the bar on Knowhere feautured in the film.
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 Peter 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.
Guardians of the Galaxy stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket, Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gilian, Djimon Hounsou with John C. Reilly, Glenn Close as Commander Rael and Benicio del Toro as The Collector. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, the film opens August 1, 2014.