{"id":12695,"date":"2014-05-30T13:31:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T20:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/?p=12695"},"modified":"2014-05-30T13:31:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T20:31:26","slug":"josh-brolin-has-been-cast-as-thanos-in-marvels-mcu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=12695","title":{"rendered":"Josh Brolin has been cast as Thanos in Marvel&#8217;s MCU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/thanos.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-12696\" src=\"http:\/\/theculturednerd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/thanos.png\" alt=\"thanos\" width=\"555\" height=\"334\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After months of speculation the wait is finally over.\u00a0<a style=\"color: #f21818;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.latino-review.com\/news\/exclusive-josh-brolin-to-play-thanos-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Latino Review<\/a><span style=\"color: #333435;\">\u00a0( with <a style=\"color: #f21818;\" href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2014\/film\/news\/josh-brolin-to-play-thanos-in-marvels-guardians-of-the-galaxy-1201198891\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Variety<\/a>\u00a0confirming it)\u00a0has revealed that actor Josh Brolin\u00a0will be officially<\/span><span style=\"color: #333435;\">\u00a0will voice the character Thanos in James Gunn\u2019s space adventure film Guardians Of The Galaxy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>No word yet if the character will be fully CGI or if they will have another actor act as a stand in, but the rumors of Vin Diesel playing the role can now be put to rest.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians Of The Galaxy is currently set for an August 1st 2014 release date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\n&nbsp; After months of speculation the wait is finally over.\u00a0Latino Review\u00a0( with Variety\u00a0confirming it)\u00a0has revealed that actor Josh Brolin\u00a0will be&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=12695\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Josh Brolin has been cast as Thanos in Marvel&#8217;s MCU&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-film-tv","entry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Josh Brolin has been cast as Thanos in Marvel&#039;s MCU - The Cultured Nerd<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theculturednerd.org\/?p=12695\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Josh Brolin has been cast as Thanos in Marvel&#039;s MCU - The Cultured Nerd\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"&nbsp; 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