Check Out New 'Howard the Duck' Concept Art For GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY
Hit the jump and check out the latest conceptual art for Marvel and James Gunn's box office hit Guardians of the Galaxy, now featuring one of the film's great post-credits surprises, Howard the Duck.
While Guardians of the Galaxy has gone on to become the highest grossing summer movie the United States, Ryan Meinerding, Marvel's longtime conceptual artist and Visual Development Supervisor, has taken to his Facebook to share one of his "small, fun contributions" to the space epic film. Below is Meinerding's concept art for Howard the Duck, who made a blink-and-you'll-miss-it appearance in the film before showing up (and even speaking) during the post-credits scene.
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. Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is presented by Marvel Studios and 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