First ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Synopsis & Still Debut Online!

Briefly: It was just last week that Marvel (finally) officially revealed Vin Diesel as the voice of Groot in James Gunn’s upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy, and now the studio has debuted both the first still and synopsis for the anticipated film.

The still was first shown off at this past Summer’s San Diego Comic Con, and features Zoe Saldana as Gamora, Chris Pratt as Peter Quill, Rocket Raccoon (voiced by Bradley Cooper), Dave Bautista as Drax the Destroyer, and Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel). Take a look at the still and synopsis below, and let us know what you think! Guardians of the Galaxy hits theatres on August 1st, 2014!

From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchise of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team–the Guardians of the Galaxy. 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.