GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Has It's Star-Lord?

No official word yet, but Deadline is reporting Chris Pratt (MONEYBALL, ZERO DARK THIRTY) is on board to play Peter Quill A.K.A. Star Lord, the leader of the Guardians Of The Galaxy. Joel Edgerton (The Thing), Jack Huston (Boardwalk Empire), Jim Sturgess (Cloud Atlas), Lee Pace (Lincoln, The Hobbit), and Eddie Redmayne (Les Miserables) had been brought in to audition for the role. Recently, Zachary Levi had been brought up for consideration.

Quill is the son of a human mother and an alien father who grows up as an orphan to become a NASA astronaut and then to assume the mantle of the interplanetary police officer Star-Lord.

There have been some rumors surfacing recently about a GUARDIANS tie-in to the upcoming IRON MAN 3...possibly as an after-credits scene.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY is scheduled for an August 1, 2014 release. The film will be directed by James Gunn, from a screenplay written by Nicole Perlman, Chris McCoy, and Gunn.