Guardians Of The Galaxy: Yondu Character Poster Released

Director James Gunn has revealed a new character poster for Guardians of the Galaxy, featuring Yondu.

In Marvel Comics, Yondu was a member of the original Guardians of the Galaxy. In the film, he’s a bit different. Played by The Walking Dead‘s Michael Rooker, Yondu is the leader of the Ravagers and a father figure to Peter Quill, a.k.a. Star-Lord, played by Chris Pratt.

From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team–the Guardians of the Galaxy. 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 Quill 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.

Guardians of the Galaxy opens August 1.