At first with fans showing sheer skepticism toward another group of unknown superheroes entering the MCU so soon upon the success of The Avengers, James Gunn's Guardians of The Galaxy films are currently some of the best Marvel Cinematic Universe films to date.
With having earned far over a righteous one-billion dollars cumulative in the box office for all three films, James Gunn has left a very proud legacy for his reign over at Marvel Studio's, as he is ready to conquer the world of the DC Universe.
However, if you were to ask James Gunn which actor's he forsaw playing each of the roles of the Guardians of The Galaxy, his response would feature only one of the actor's that has played one of the intergalactic defenders.
In the Marvel Studio's: Assembled documentary for Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 3, Gunn initially had a much different cast in mind to assemble the ragtag group of misfits:
"When I first went to Marvel and I pitched 'Guardians of the Galaxy,' I brought a little book. I had worked very hard trying to put this little book together of all the little pictures and photo references, and all that stuff. And in that book, there were all the characters listed and who I thought should play those characters.”
“And of course, none of those actors who were in that book ended up playing the characters, except for Zoe Saldaña, who I met and loved from the beginning.”
It is bizzare to project an idea of how different Gunn's Guardians of The Galaxy film would have turned out, had the director assembled his dream cast to play their respective parts.
Surely, there is no doubt that all the actor's who landed their roles as each of the Guardians could ever be replaced, for Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, and Bradley Cooper, are all definitively our Guardians of The Galaxy.
Who would you have liked to play as a member of The Guardians of The Galaxy?
Guardians of the Galaxy (retroactively referred to as Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1) is a 2014 American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team of the same name. Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is the 10th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Directed by James Gunn, who wrote the screenplay with Nicole Perlman.
It features an ensemble cast including Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Vin Diesel, and Bradley Cooper as the titular Guardians, along with Lee Pace, Michael Rooker, Karen Gillan, Djimon Hounsou, John C. Reilly, Glenn Close, and Benicio del Toro. In the film, Peter Quill and a group of extraterrestrial criminals go on the run after stealing a powerful artifact.