How Guardians Of The Galaxy Triumphed Over The Film Industry's Backwards Thinking

Guardians of the Galaxy is poised to be one of the biggest movies of 2014. Through a string of fun and energizing trailers, it has scored an avalanche of fan enthusiasm online. Its cast is insanely charismatic, and Guardians of the Galaxy is gaining major praise, being called (by some) the greatest science-fiction movie since Star Wars. And yet it almost didn't happen this way at all. In a profile piece for Time, Guardians of the Galaxy screenwriter Nicole Perlman revealed why. But to understand...