Meet Ronan The Accuser In The New Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer

The new trailer for Guardians of the Galaxy has just arrived and it comes bearing gifts of a tons of new footage, voices and our first look at the movie's antagonist, Ronan the Accuser. Played by Lee Pace, Ronan the Accuser is the alien henchman of the all-powerful Thanos. Yesterday we got a look at some concept art for Ronan, which you can see below:

But this latest trailer gives us a few very brief glimpse of the religious mad-man and his 'Universal Weapon' in action. If we're not mistaken, the image below appears to be Ronan sitting patiently with his weapon resting ominously across his lap.

Away from the bad guys, this latest trailer also gives us our first look at Glenn Close as Nova Prime Rael. Rael is the leader of Nova Corps who serve as the Intergalactic Police force that are struggling to keep Ronan and his armies at bay as he scours the universe looking to recover the a mysterious and powerful orb.

The fun doesn't end there, though. The trailer also shows Gamora facing off with Karen Gillan's Nebula...

Rocket Raccoon doing what he does best:

Groot being all kinds of awesome

...and of course, a little bit of romance:

Guardians of the Galaxy is released on August 1st and quite frankly, we can't bloody wait!