Marvel Studios has tapped Chris McCoy to rewrite Nicole Perlman’s draft of the script for Guardians of the Galaxy, the only new property announced so far in Marvel Studio’s second wave of releases.  Guardians, which is based on one of Marvel’s lesser known properties and was announced at Comic-Con, is slated to debut in theaters on August 1st 2014 (see "Marvel Confirms 'Guardians of the Galaxy'").  Given that galactic settings of a Guardians epic could require lots of special effects, Marvel will have to get cracking on this project in order to make the 2014 debut.

 

McCoy is considered one of Hollywood’s up-and-coming writers, even though as The Hollywood Reporter notes, he is yet to receive a screenplay credit.  But McCoy has place three so-far unproduced scripts on the Black List that catalogs the best of the Hollywood screenplays that have yet to find a home.  According to THR, McCoy’s screenplays "have been praised for their quirky comedic bent," a quality that might be very useful in crafting a script based on Guardians of the Galaxy.