Hmm. What is it about Marvel and coincidentally having the numbers 666 and 616 associated with them?! :O

But this site just reported that Black Panther would be the other 2014 film. And said it absolutely had to be the 2014 film over anything else.

Which is it?

I still want Hulk, I think this is good news, but another hulk would’ve been great, great news.

nope i dont think you gotta think main stream audience people who read comics will get excited by this but there far more who wouldnt even know who these people are if disney and marvel made this it would be the biggest flop of 2014

This, I think. But come Comic Con we’ll know for sure. I wouldn’t put T’challa down for the count, either.

I would go for an animated movie…safest bet.

Whether true or rumor…
Cool.
Ant Man, Panther, Dr. Strange, et al…
Will come when they come…
Hulk’s had 2 films already…
I’m ok, with Marvel expanding into space/time et al.
Hulk can have another afterwards, if applicable.

Thats why im not trusting this site much anymore.

Let’s say Avengers 2 goes after the big prize storyline – The Infinity Gauntlet which would tie in Thor’s universe, Thanos, the need for Avengers etc. Would Guardians start with Annihilation? Thanos does work with Annhilus in that film, and it is their origin story. Nova also plays a big role even though he’s not a guardian.

When did he state that?

The problem with the original Guardians is that they have crap all to do with any of the events in the MCU. On top of which they’re from a parallel reality and in the future. Who needs to involve any of that crap?

The current team, though, is inextricably linked to not only the modern day MCU but Thanos as well. As we saw in the after credits scene of Avengers, Thanos is being set up as a villain down the road. And the current Guardians of the Galaxy is heavily tied to him. Adam Warlock is the Avatar of Life while Thanos is the Avatar of Death. Gamora was trained as an assassin by Thanos. Moondragon saw her family murdered by Thanos. Drax the Destroyer was resurrected to kill Thanos. And then you have Starlord, who’s from modern day Earth. And introducing them also opens the door to Nova and the Nova Corps, Quasar, and Captain Marvel.

In comparison to all they stand to gain from using the current Guardians of the Galaxy, why in the world would they use the old ones when their introduction would only confuse audiences?

And what makes you think the general audience had any clue who Iron Man was before the movie came out? He certainly was never wellknown enough to generate the box office numbers he did.
I’ll never understand this position, the idea that you can only make a movie off of pre-existing and wellknown properties. You people do realize, right, that plenty of movies are made and are wildly successful while at the same time being wholly original and not based on any pre-existing properties?

At least I would think he did.

Until Marvel says for sure what is what…its just a rumor.

I doubt that Avengers 2 will be the Infinity Gauntlet. Particularly since Joss already said that Avengers 2 will be a more personal story. I suspect that Thanos’s plot will run in the background and play a role, but as the main villain? How can they possibly top a universe ending villain in Avengers 3?

As for Thanos in a Guardians of the Galaxy movie, he doesn’t necessarily have to be the villain. Maybe the villain is the Magus and the Universal Church of Truth and, much like in the comics, Thanos teams up with Adam Warlock to beat the Magus? Whatever the case, I’d prefer that they NOT start with Annihilation. For one, it’d be nice if they gave Fox a little time to run out their Fantastic Four license so that Marvel can get the rights back and use the Silver Surfer and Galactus in their cosmic movies, as both of them play major roles in Annihilation. Secondly, much like having the Infinity Gauntlet in Avengers 2, you’d be throwing away your best story lines early. You BUILD UP a threat, and save the best for last. You don’t continuously deflate the threat level with each successive movie. Can you imagine if the Die Hard movies went “Nakatomi Towers –> Airport –> New York City –> an Arby’s in McClane’s neighborhood”?

…

Not by much though. We’re talking about an industry that measures success in the tens of thousands. A title that sells 40,000 copies per issue is a success. A title which sells 20,000 copies per month is on the cusp of cancellation. The comic industry is microscopic in comparison to the size of the moviegoing audience. The 20,000 or 30,000 more fans which Iron Man has over Guardians of the Galaxy certainly aren’t enough to make a noticeable difference on box office figures.

Iron Man wasn’t a hit because there were tens of millions of old Iron Man comic readers (even at its best, Iron Man never sold anywhere near that many copies). Nor was it a hit because it has a storied history in the animation world (there was only one cartoon in recent memory, and it was outright terrible. Nowhere on the level of the likes of B: TAS or Justice League). Iron Man was a hit because it had Robert Downey Jr. in a great role and because it offered something interesting and new. Likewise, Guardians of the Galaxy also has something interesting and new to offer. If they can marry that to a great script and a great cast then they’ve got a great shot at producing a winner.

Let’s just hope to God that they don’t cast Taylor Kitsch as Adam Warlock, though…

i love the oldies as the first comic i bought was a george perez avengers with them in it! bloody amazing! the beast too to boot!

chill thor … i’d say you’re acting more nutty than a guy named myclawismypenis and that is really saying something!

You didn’t see his original posts. He made three or four where he was flinging swear words every other word.

And what’s nutty about my posts? Pointing out how tiny the comic audience is and how little affect those fandoms can have on box office numbers? My pointing out that everything is new at some point and manages to find an audience, and that there’s no reason to believe that just because something is new to the general audience that it can’t become popular? That you can’t realistically have a live-action movie and an animated movie coextisting in the same continuity and even crossing over? Because those all seem like pretty reasonable points to me.

to whoever edited/wrote the article, thanks for stealing my group’s photo (the one with all the cosmic characters assembled) and not giving any recognition or respect to my art editors hard work.

ya, i’ve seen this photo numerous times on Comic Book Nerds Are Hot, both the website and the facebook group. it’s an original edit by the main art editor in the group, FOR SHAME LATINO REVIEW!

So…..Da7e…what’s the secret movie between Captain 2 and Ghost Rider 2 that you blurred out from us?

AS posted before. A live action movie would be suitable if they have the avengers and guardians team up. Animated movie would be nice before hand to introduce the characters and what not.

Yeah, How many times has that been slung around and we ended up with blah!

Same here.

YOU need to calm down. You sound really into yourself and people are just giving they’re own opinions much like you were in your original post and other posts. YOU clearly have a very controlling personality with how YOU sound like YOU have to be right. Facts are facts and you state a lot of that but YOU need to calm down and assert yourself in a more appropriate unbiased and and less controlling manner.

As a separate continuity, sure. But if it’s the same continuity then you really can’t have the characters which the audiences saw animated suddenly translated to live-action versions while keeping the first animated movie in continuity. Nothing like that has ever been done before, and probably for a very good reason, as people wonder why these cartoon characters are suddenly flesh and blood.

EIther way, they’re on the clock as far as a live-action Guardians of the Galaxy movie is concerned, as it has to come out before Avengers 2, so they don’t really have time to make a separate animated movie.

The difference is that Marvel Studios is what’ll be making Guardians of the Galaxy, not Disney. From what I understand, Disney doesn’t dictate how Marvel Studios runs its operations. Moreover, the same people who greenlighted and produced John Carter aren’t the same people who’d greenlight and produce a Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

And while John Carter bombed, The Avengers, which was made by Marvel Studios, has earned $1.4 billion and is the third highest grossing film of all time. And Guardians of the Galaxy will be tied into the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Avengers 2, which in itself is a huge selling point for it. One can easily see a good chunk of the millions of people who loved The Avengers being willing to see Guardians of the Galaxy if the advertising highlights its connection to Avengers.

Either way, Marvel has more than proven that they can deliver on a Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and I don’t see how John Carter enters into it at all, particularly since the people who made John Carter will have nothing at all to do with a Guardians of the Galaxy movie.

Yeah, seperate continuity. WHo knows, they may have something already in the works. Anyway, it will be interesting to see if they do go to the big screen. I know it makes sense that they would…but, until marvel announces it..well, im just not convinced 100%…and thats partially because I wouldnt have thought that DISNEY would have such huge balls to gamble on this since JOHN CARTER took a huge chunk out of their armor. Which would explain those asshats raising the price on Disney tickets again.

Well, they did recently appear in Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes.

But yeah, while the specifics of this article should probably be taken with a grain of salt, I wouldn’t be surprised if Marvel does eventually make a Guardians of the Galaxy movie. Feige has already said that he wanted to make one, and specifically called out the current versions of the Guardians, and even said that a character like Rocket Raccoon could be great if handled well. Either way we’ll see, though I’m really hoping for it, as I think the latest Guardians are great. That and, if it succeeds, it’ll kick open the door to Marvel’s cosmic universe. Once they’re in so are the Nova Corps, the Shi’ar Imperium, the Imperial Guard, the Kree and Skrull Empires, the Inhumans, Captain Marvel, Darkhawk, Beta Ray Bill, Quasar and, if Marvel gets the F4 rights back (Please, God, let that happen and soon!), the Silver Surfer and Galactus.

Thats what I thought I read about them making an apperance in Avnegers: earths’s mightest heroes..

Dido.
Ironically, I would have enjoyed seeing RDJ as Strange.
But, that was before the 1st Iron Man was around…
I’d like to see them get a similar calibered actor.

What ThorOdinson said. Also: 616 isn’t THE Marvel Universe, it’s a universe IN Marvel’s multiverse. Not a long story, by the way, changing the future creates alternate timelines, thus alternate universes and stories that don’t fit original continuity warrant new universes.
The Thanos Imperative is not where to start if you want to learn about the guardians, if you have to ignore the individual characters’ backstories and if you also focus on the second iteration of the guardians, you would want to start with Annihilation.

Sadly its it 2008 team not the 69 =(

Kevin Feige has announced that Marvel Studios is planning to work on a film version of the Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, focusing on the 2008 team. It will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The original planned release date was 16 May 2014, but it was moved back to August 1, 2014.

GUARDIAN(purple dude with mohawk in the 2nd pic) WAS THE HEAD OF THE GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY …and im sure this articale was based off wikipedia

Guardian is not part of the first batch but the second batch the film will focus on the first line-up And no guardian is not ‘THE HEAD OF THE GUARDIANS’ and no he is not head of the guardians this is not power rangers, leadership had to be earned and it was much like as depicted among the avengers in “The Avengers” movie. and no if the writer of this article had researched Wikipedia would had enlightened him, i’ve checked it’s not updated but it is not filled with as erroneous information concerning this as this article.
Guardian is a heavy hitter, the first batch mainly comprised of only light warriors. Guardian was brought in only after the entirety of the first batch were decimated. Drax dead, phyla dead, star lord dead, nova dead, I Love Guardians of the galaxy. if james gunn makes this like a parody of a comic book adaptation … some body should shoot this guy right now. he is not fit to helm this project. the story will prove to be too vast for him.