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Michael Rooker Joins ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 11:02am PDTTags: Disney, Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel Studios, Michael Rooker

Michael Rooker, who was fantastic on his now-completed run on AMC’s The Walking Dead, has been cast as one of the four founding superheroes of Guardians Of The Galaxy, the Marvel Studios pic that James Gunn is helming. He will play Yondu, who in Marvel lore was a game hunter of a primitive tribe native to Centauri IV, the first planet system to be colonized outside of the Sun’s solar system. He eventually bands together with fellow fugitives to form the superhero team. Chris Pratt already has been cast, and Disney plans an August 1, 2014 release date. Rooker, whose film credits include Mississippi Burning, Days of Thunder, JFK, Tombstone and Jumper, is repped by Kritzer Levine Wilkins Griffin Nilon Entertainment.

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Hot Trailer: ‘Call Of The Dead’

By MIKE FLEMING JR | Tuesday April 26, 2011 @ 2:50pm PDTTags: Danny Trejo, Michael Rooker, Sarah Michelle Gellar
Mike Fleming

Here’s a clever trailer for the video game Call Of Duty: Black Ops Escalation–Call of the Dead. The zombie extravaganza at present is an add-on to the latest Call of Duty vidgame, but if the trailer for the zombie vidgame Dead Island created such a stampede among the movie rights … Read More »

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Rachelle Lefevre Joins ABC’s ‘Off The Map’ As Regular; AMC’s ‘Walking Dead’ Adds Two

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday July 22, 2010 @ 2:00pm PDTTags: ABC, AMC, Comic Books, Michael Rooker, Norman Reedus, Off the Map, Rachelle Lefevre, Shonda Rhimes, The Walking Dead, TV Casting
Nellie Andreeva

RachelleFormer Twilight co-star Rachelle Lefevre has joined the cast of the Shonda Rhimes-produced new ABC medical drama Off the Map as a regular. Additionally, AMC officially announced the casting of Michael Rooker (Jumper) and Norman Reedus (The Boondock Saints) in its upcoming series … Read More »

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