Guardians of the Galaxy Movie Story Idea

honestly i prefer my plot....it includes both versions of the guardians and results in a single team and even allows a small scene with Killraven. It keeps more fans happy...yes there are still those of us who remember fondly the original team but i also understand some people only remember comics since 2008 so they just know the new team.

i think it should be a combination of the two...here is my modified story:

it starts with Thanos and the badoons waging war against the guardians in the 31st century and he is killing each original guardians of the galaxy member one at a time. The guardians are trying to get to a time machine to try and go back in time and fix what went wrong. Vance is pulverized by thanos....starhawk is the only one able to get to the time machine and he picks up vance's shield (the captain america shield for those not in the know) and is sent back in time.

in the present he appears somewhere in space and is able to gather a bunch of heroes together (some of the new team's members such as rocket racoon and starlord).

at some point in the movie starhawk is refered to as the one-who-knows because he seems to recall a lot about events that have transpired (in the case of the movie just from having a photo memory and having read a lot of the history from the past 1000 years to try and defeat Thanos)

The Thanos threat leads them to earth where the team meets the young Vance astro, starhawk has a piece of technology that sends a memory blast to Vance about the future which emerges his psychic powers (this is also where we see a nice overview of the original guardians origin along with how Thanos fit into it and even a shot of what looks like the war of the worlds with killraven)

Vance ends up with the shield (to me that shield should look a lot more worn out than they made the other ones look...maybe even to the point where you can't tell that well its the same shield).

this would be a blockbuster of a movie, include time travel, space, earth, the original members, and the new team and would result in a team that includes a combination of both the old and the new team.

orrr he actually gets the gems, they fail to stop him. and it appears to be the darkest hour. then, thanos gains the gauntlet in post-credits. avengers 2 sees the avengers and the guardians taking down Thanos.

honestly, this makes more sense to me than Dr. Strange or even Black Panther, though both would be awesome. since Thanos was introduced at the end the Avengers, they seemingly hinted he was the next villain. so, they NEEDED to introduce Marvel Cosmic Heroes to fight Thanos, since ultimately, he is a cosmic threat.

of course, this is pure speculation on my part.

@mawilli4 Only thing is that I'm not sure if audiences are going to like a film where the heroes fail to stop the bad guy. Possibly, but I don't know.

I always imagined the Guardians teaming up with The Avengers in Avengers 2 to take down Thanos, so I agree with most of you. The reason I had the Guardians win in the end was because I wasn't sure if audiences would like a film where the heroes don't triumph in the end. Remember, this movie has to stand alone, as well as connect with the rest of the MCU.

I guess both our opinions makes sense thinking about. Imho though, I think the audience would kind of like seeing the villain win for just once in a superhero movie. It would be realistic to the audience, as well as to me. This guys supposed to be the Ultimate bad guy that Loki cries about when he thinks of him. A guy like this shouldn't loose right away. Cause if you think about for some one take on The Avengers(with possible Ant-Man and Wasp being added to the roster as well), and The Guardians(I say will probably be 5 character like...Adam Warlock,Nova Master,Drax,Rocket Raccoon,Groot) the villain has to be bad ass and ridiculously powerful which Thanos is. He can't just loose to one of the teams and almost die, it just won't work imo. Audience won't think so much of him in The Avengers 2.

I think doing it this way will make both movies more realistic and better, and a touch darker with the villain actually winning in the end(for Guardian I mean of course).

Rocket Raccoon will be one of the best heroes on screen ever. He's freaking awesome and I'll bet money that audiences will love him. As long as the keep his smart ass/funny side to him true to what he is, it'll be jut fine.

And I think An-Man also sounds fine. So does Wasp. Though I am an Avengers fan so that could be my biased side talking, I think with and Edgar Wright name tag as the director it sounds normal. Just look at the movies he's worked with names. I'm already one who has stated Ant-Man will be amazing. Being directed by Edgar Wright, and a script by Edgar Wright and Joe Cornish, all they need is to cast right. Patrick Wilson/Bradley Cooper as Ant-Man, and Mila Kunis as Wasp.

I actually thought of a way you could have Thanos winning in the end, but still have a bit of an uplifting ending. Maybe the Guardians are able to overcome Thanos' forces, but this distracts them and Thanos gets away with the Gems. The end could be the Guardians finding out that Thanos is heading towards Earth, and the movie ends with them heading there as well. This obviously would lead into Avengers 2 where both teams work together to take down Thanos.