"Take My Hand, Peter" Concept Art From GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Conceptual illustrator Arnaud Valette ("Game of Thrones") has updated his official website with some beautiful concept art that he created for Marvel's summer blockbuster, Guardians of the Galaxy. Hit the jump to check it out.
Near the end of Guardians of the Galaxy, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) distracts Ronan (Lee Pace) with some funky dance moves. This allows Rocket and Drax to fire off a weapon that dislodges the infinity gem from Ronan's weapon. Quill leaps for the stone and grabs it. The stone's immense power appears to be killing Quill and this is when Gamora offers her hand to him so that the power can be spread between the two of them. Gamora's gesture triggers a vision of his dying mother offering her hand to him and saying, "Take my hand, Peter." Below, is concept art created by Arnaud Valette depicting an alternate look to this scene.
The final piece of concept art is of a winged-alien creature called a "Char-Bird."
From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team—the Guardians of the Galaxy. 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.
Marvel’s “Guardians of the Galaxy,” stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, featuring Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot, Bradley Cooper as the voice of Rocket, Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, with John C. Reilly, Glenn Close as Commander Rael and Benicio del Toro as The Collector. James Gunn is the director and the story is by Nicole Perlman and James Gunn, with screenplay by James Gunn.