The overall reaction to the peek has been mixed--some folks dig the wild and very different style, while others were turned off by the camp and some of the stylistic choices.
Total Film posted an in depth breakdown of the trailer, in it Gunn revealed a few more interesting bits of information about the movie.
The Guardians of the Galaxy comic book follows a US pilot who ends up in space during a universal conflict, then is forced to go on the run with a band of futuristic alien ex-cons.
Chris Pratt is Peter Quill/Star-Lord-The character is an interplanetary policeman and the Guardians leader who is born of a human mother and alien father.
WWE superstar Dave Bautista plays Drax the Destroyer who born as the human Arthur Douglas, whose family was attacked and murdered by the villainous Thanos (seen in the credt post-script of The Avengers). Arthur's spirit was then placed into a powerful new body by Kronos, which resulted in Drax the Destroyer's creation. The superhero's powers include incredible strength and the ability to emit energy blasts from his hands.
Zoe Saldana is Gamora a "green-skinned humanoid who is the last of a species that was exterminated by a race known as the Badoon" who also "happens to be a skilled assassin."
"The Walking Dead" fave Michael Rooker plays Yondu Udonta who first appeared in a 1969. He hails from the Zatoan tribe on Centauri IV, the first planet to be colonized outside of the Sun's solar system in the 29th Century. Yondu does not possess any super-human abilities, but he is a skilled hunter with a bow and arrow, and has a mystical "sixth sense" that gives him limited empathic abilities with other life forms. He is one of the founding members of the group.
The lovely Ophelia Lovibond plays "The Collector" who "gathers artifacts and beings in the hopes of saving them from a foretold galactic annihilation."
John C. Reilly has been offered the role of Rhomann Dey in the film who is said to be "Agent Coulson of the 'Guardians' movies," a human agent who serves as a go-between with S.H.I.E.L.D. This is quite different from the comic character, described as an alien centurion in the Nova Corps. There's were reports that the studio was interested in either Hugh Laurie, Alan Rickman or Ken Watanabe to play the role of a colleague of the Dey's.
Glenn Close is "playing a leadership role in Nova Corp, the intergalactic space patrol. ... Close’s role would be the closest thing to the one that Samuel L. Jackson plays in Avengers movie.
Benicio Del Toro is playing The Collector. who is billions of years old and does exactly that - collect rare or valuable items from across the universe. He also has the power of prophecy and created a museum of countless life forms to keep them safe from Thanos.
Lee Pace plays the villain Ronan The Accussor is an alien Kree with superhuman powers. He was a villain, but has become more heroic in the comics - so he'll probably have an arc in the film.
Actress Karen Gillan is set to play Nebula a space pirate and the apparent granddaughter of Thanos.
Vin Diesel will be providing the voice for Groot who can absorb wood to gain strength, as well as control trees. The surprise here is that the is not as high as profile a role as many though it was going to be.
Bradley Cooper will provide the voice for Rocket Raccoon who has a penchant for big guns and is also a master tactician. He’s best friends with Groot and in the comics was captain of a starship.
Gunn says that most of Cooper's dialogue as Rocket has been recorded. Cooper was hired "because he's able to do both comedy and drama."
That line-up shot with the five characters at the end required 15 people to work on Rocket and 15 people to work on Groot. While the shots of Groot in the trailer took a few weeks to create, the development of his look and movement "took the better part of a year." While "all the Guardians start out the movie as bastards," Gunn calls Groot an innocent who is "caught up in Rocket's life".
Saldana's Gamora make-up takes around four hours to put on, but Bautista's Drax and Gillan's Nebula took six hours or more. Gunn says Saldana and Gillan's characters are "the two most hardass characters in the movie."
He says that the music group Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling" is used in the film, in fact there are a lot of old songs on Quill's mix tape in his Sony Walkman. According to Gunn it's one of the few things he has from Earth, it's dear to him and serves as "an umbilical cord that connects him to Earth and the home and family he lost."
The Guardians start out essentially as criminals - "a thief, two thugs, a murderer, and a maniac" who end up in prison together. The spaceship battle scenes we see are "Star-Lord and the gang facing off with a fleet of Ronan's Necrocraft."
Pace's Ronan the Accuser, Rooker's Yondu, and Close's Nova Prime characters are all being saved for the full trailer debut in a couple of months.
Gregg Henry also stars.
Screenwriter Chris McCoy was hired to rewrite Nicole Perlman’s original script.
The film arrives August 1, 2014.
Here's the official film synopsis:
...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 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.
Meanwhile Marvel have released twelve new hi-res photos from the film--these are mostly shots seen in the trailer.
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