Making a strong bid to win the Most Eclectic Cast Ever In A Superhero Movie award, Marvel’s Guardians Of The Galaxy has made another unexpected choice, adding Glenn Close to the line-up.
While Deadline’s report doesn’t specify exactly whom she’ll play (and given the way the Marvel Cinematic Universe tweaks the backgrounds and personalities of the characters it takes from the comics, things could be very diffrent on screen), it appears that Close is on as the leader of the Nova Corps, which would make her Centurion Nova Prime. Think Nick Fury, but with two eyes and in spaaace.
In the comics, the Corps' power is called the Nova Force. This is a nearly limitless energy field generated by a living supercomputer called the Xandarian Worldmind. The energy is then transmitted into the centurions at varying levels depending on their rank. The Worldmind contains the entire record of Xandarian history and civilization, so it's a bit like Google but without the doodles.
How (or even whether) that will be portrayed in the movie is a fact known only to director James Gunn and the rest of his team. Assuming he signs on, rumoured addition John C. Reilly would be sharing scenes with Close's character.
Close joins a cast that officially already includes Chris Pratt, Dave Bautista, Michael Rooker, Ophelia Lovibond, Lee Pace and, if she makes a deal, Zoe Saldana in the tale of a US pilot who ends up in the middle of a universal conflict and goes on the run with the team.
Gunn is scheduled to kick off shooting next month and the movie should be out here on August 1, 2014.