Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2: 20 New Details Just Revealed
It's all Rocket's fault...
Marvel don't just rain Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 news, they positively pour it down. After spending an inordinate amount of money on just over a minute of teaser footage during the Super Bowl and ensuring their film had the most talked about Big Game spot, the studio has now released a raft of information on the plot and characters to the web.
That information comes courtesy of a grand-scale set visit from the early days of production (even before it was revealed who Kurt Russell was playing), which has now all broken embargo and is out in the wild thanks to the major outlets in attendance.
The info is particularly - and surprisingly - generous when it comes to filling in some of the gaps, adding a shape of the plot, the motivations of the villains, the dynamics we will see explored and production details that will impact our viewing experience. And trawling through the various reports, it's possible to get a very good picture of what we can expect when Vol 2 swaggers into cinemas in a few short months.
Here are all of the major details from Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 that were just revealed...
20. What Ayesha Looks Like
Thanks to the Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 Super Bowl spot, we now know what villainess Ayesha (otherwise known as Her, Kismet or Paragon in the comics) looks like. And it's quite a look.
In the comics, she's a creation of the Enclave, who seek to make a perfect human being "without sin", which inevitably backfires. She's supremely powerful (like, on another level of power way above anything we've encountered in the MCU so far) and while it remains to be seen how much of that is retained in the film, she definitely looks the part (retaining Her's gold look from the comics)...
We also know she's a fan of ornate throne rooms and looking a little bit like a goddess, even if she's only really officially billed as a "high priestess"...
According to the film-makers, the Sovereign are a particularly pompous race, genetically created by themselves and self-sustaining as a result, with a complex that suggests they believe themselves to be perfect. They're also very difficult to deal with and way too easy to offend, which will no doubt work well with the infamously offensive Guardians.