The breakdown of venues was: 354 IMAX screens, 3,200 3D screens, 350 large format screens, and 240 D-Box screens.

Costume supervisor Dan Grace added to this by saying, "We really, really get the feeling of the scale and scope of the galaxy. Additionally, his skin tone was changed from the bright green in the comics to a muddier gray, to avoid visual similarities to the Hulk.The TPS-L2 was the first portable cassette player that Sony brought to market; it was first released in 1979 in Japan, and the following year in the US and the UK. This time, we’re heading out into space, as it’s the Guardians of the Galaxy characters that have been turned into keepsake pieces. In June 2014, Feige added that Thanos and his followers are "the biggest piece of connective tissue that will eventually lead us back into Avengers films in the future. As to why he took the role, Hounsou said, "I have a four-year old son who loves superheroes from Spider-Man to Iron Man to Batman.

Sarofsky developed a custom typeface based on the font used in the teaser posters for the opening credits, which was tinted orange to offer a better contrast to the film's blue and gray imagery. James Gunn said that for the role of Rocket, some physical movements from Cooper, including facial expressions and hand movements, were recorded as potential references for the animators, [44] though much of Sean Gunn's acting is used throughout the film. Dave Bautista Talks Fight Scenes and Finding The Humor in Drax on the Set of Guardians Of The Galaxy". Using playback with the selected songs allowed the actors to step into the world, on the other side of the edit, which also helps with their performances.its largest, and became the third-highest opening in the country for any Disney release, behind Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, and was an all-time industry record opening in October. In a separate interview for The Dark World in November, Feige added that a third, unknown Infinity Stone would be seen in the film, [150] referred to as the "Power Stone" by the Collector. On bringing the character to life, del Toro said, "What James [Gunn] wanted, that I found out little by little as I was doing it, is that he wanted me to explore and just keep pushing the character and keep creating [him] as I was in front of the camera". Feige announced that the film was in active development at the 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International during the Marvel Studios panel, with an intended release date of August 1, 2014.

In July 2014, Gunn revealed that there were multiple scenes he had cut from the film, and he was investigating how to release them, either in an extended cut of the film, or as bonus features on the film's home media release. Manohla Dargis of The New York Times said, "While Guardians takes you down one after another crazy narrative turn, it also pulls you into—and, for the most part, keeps you in—a fully realized other world. The music and the Earth stuff is one of those touchstones that we have to remind us that, yeah, [Quill] is a real person from planet Earth who's just like you and me. The line from Serafinowicz's character, "What a bunch of a-holes", was only intended to be featured in the trailers, but due to its positive reception, was included in the final cut of the film.

Without spoiling anything about the movie there is another device that gets mentioned, and in case you’re wondering, it hasn’t benefited from Star-Lord’s magic touch in quite the same way. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy," the animated, action-packed epic space adventure following a rag tag band of disparate misfits, features themes of redemption and the importance of friendships and family told through a series of riveting sequential story arcs.