Bradley Cooper is Officially a Foul-Mouthed, Machine Gun-Toting Space Raccoon in ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’
We reported last week that Bradley Cooper had entered into negotiations for the part of Rocket Raccoon in James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy. But for anyone waiting on the results with baited breath, hoping and praying that Cooper would sign on for the part, here’s some good news (or, if you’re not a Cooper fan, horrific news)- Marvel has just offered official confirmation that Cooper will be playing the walking, talking rodent in next summer’s superheroes-in-space epic.
Count me among the cautiously optimistic. Before Silver Linings Playbook, I’d be among those clamoring for a quick recast, arguing that the only thing worse than Cooper as Rocket would be having the guy from Phantoms play Batman (and we all know that’ll never happen in a million years). But then Silver Linings happened, and Cooper knocked it out of the park as a man struggling with mental illness. Kevin Feige has described Rocket as a “genetically and mechanically altered… experiment,” while Gunn called him “the heart of the movie.” If Cooper can pull off something even remotely close to what he did with Silver Linings, then Guardians might be something truly special.
Although it’s also got Vin Diesel as a walking, talking tree. So I guess it was already special.
Guardians of the Galaxy will be in theaters August 1, 2014.