For Disney, 2014 will be a big year, with a fresh crop of comic book heroes ready to take on the box office in anticipation of 2015′s “The Avengers: Age of Ultron.” August 1 sees the release of space adventure “Guardians of the Galaxy,” and for the first time Marvel has released the official synopsis for the film:
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.
Read more about Disney’s 2014 plans at Variety.com.
