Marvel Entertainment has released the first 15-second promo for their upcoming animated series Guardians of the Galaxy online on Wednesday on IGN. The series will premiere on 26 September on Disney XD.
Directed by James Gunn, the movie Guardians of the Galaxy had premiered in Hollywood on 21 July, 2014, and had made its theatrical release on 1 August, 2014 in United States in 3D and IMAX 3D formats. The film produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures had garnered alot of positive response from the audience as well as critics and has collected a whopping $774.2 million worldwide. This eventually led to the film becoming the highest-grossing superhero film, as well as the second highest-grossing film in North America of 2014. The film was highly praised for its humour, soundtrack, visual effects, Gunn’s direction, and performances of the cast.
Guardians of the Galaxy follows the newly-formed team who finds a strange artefact keyed only to the DNA of Peter Quill. Upon opening it, Quill unleashes a treasure map leading to a powerful weapon known as the Cosmic Seed which is capable of giving birth to the next universe. It’s up to the Guardians to find, protect and ultimately destroy the Cosmic Seed in order to keep it out of the hands of those who would abuse its power, from galactic big boss Thanos, to the conniving brothers the Collector and the Grandmaster, to a resurrected Ronan, to the ultimate trickster, Loki, in order to save the universe, states a synopsis by Marvel.
The Guardians of the Galaxy originally were a comic series published by Marvel in 2008 while the Guardians had also appeared before in the Marvel Super-Heroes in 1969. A sequel titled Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is scheduled to be released on 5 May, 2017. The voice cast of the show includes Will Friedle (Boy Meets World) as Peter Quill/Star-Lord, Trevor Devall (Johnny Test) as Rocket Raccoon, Vanessa Marshall (Star Wars Rebels) as Gamora, David Sobolov (Transformers: Prime) as Drax the Destroyer, Kevin Michael Richardson (The Cleveland Show) as Groot and James Arnold Taylor (Star Wars: The Clone Wars) as Yondu and Cosmo.
The Guardians of the Galaxy series officially debuts with two back-to-back episodes on Saturday, 26 September at 9:30pm on Disney XD, though the first episode will be airing as an early sneak preview on Saturday, 5 September at 9:00pm.