Will "Guardians" Cross Paths With "The Avengers"?...Thanos Photo

The biggest question hanging over James Gunn's film adaptation of Marvel's "Guardians of the Galaxy" is when will this group of galactic heroic misfits come in contact with The Avengers?

Chatting with Yahoo Movies, director Gunn actors Chris Pratt and Vin Diesel offered their opinions:

Gunn (Director): "We talked about all sorts of possibilities [for a crossover] and I kind of know what the basic plan is. That could or could not include a couple of Avengers and a couple of Guardians meeting up, or all of the Avengers and all of the Guardians. But we do inhabit the same universe and they're pretty big personalities that are likely to, at some point or another, run into each other."

Chris Pratt (Peter Quill/Star-Lord): "If you go from five characters and you add another five characters, that's ten characters. That can be very difficult. That being said, Marvel knows their stuff. Knows there business. And I see this, rather than taking the worlds that already exist and putting them together, this opens up doors into brand new worlds. We take characters we didn't even know existed in the four corners of the universe and we see their stories."

Vin Diesel (Groot): "Marvel will have a lot of options after this movie, and one of the options will be integrating teams … I think the discussion's already been had."

Meantime  we saw a side-on glimpse of  the villainous Thanos (seen in the post-script of The Avengers--but it's "Guardians" that offers our real first look at  him.

Minor Spoilers Ahead:

Josh Brolin voices and mo-caps the character for two scenes in the pic- the first takes place about one-third during the movie and shows us the character in the flesh and on his throne. The second is a holographic video recording of just his face around the two-thirds mark.

Now, a user known as 'skiesthelimitx92' on Instagram seems to have used a phone to snap a photo of the character from that first sequence.We see that Thanos  how looks in this film (and likely subsequent movies) and it's a slightly different look--most notably the color which is a cooler purple compared to the hot pink of the one we saw in 'Avengers'.