Everyone may still be reeling over news of the caped and cowled variety, but there is plenty of other superhero stuff out there to get jazzed about. For example, look no further than our first glimpses at Michael Rooker as Yondu from Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy!
Always a popular collaborator with Gunn (who didn’t love his Slither work?), Rooker now plays Yondu, a founding member of the Guardians who possesses a mystical “sixth sense” that allows him to commune with nature and wildlife more readily than higher life forms, such as humans. But thanks to his Centauri IV roots, he has the capacity for good and all sorts of heroics.
These picture, courtesy of ComingSoon, showcase a superhero that is just weird enough to fit in with the rest of Gunn’s vision, which includes Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Glenn Close, Benicio Del Toro and Karen Gillan.
Guardians of the Galaxy makes landfall in August 2014.
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this is absolutely badass.