"G.I. Joe" Accepts Movie Assignment

[mooglemania85]

By REUTERS
Published: August 24, 2007

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Call it "G.I. Go." Paramount Pictures finally has mobilized "G.I. Joe," hiring the director of the "Mummy" movies to shoot a live-action film based on the popular Hasbro military action figures.

"G.I. Joe" had long been in development at Paramount, though it gained traction thanks in part to "Transformers," the hit summer movie based on another Hasbro toy line.

While G.I. Joe toys have been around for decades, the movie will be based on the toy line launched in the 1980s, which also was tied to a Saturday morning cartoon and comic book series.

Director Stephen Sommers' take was inspired by a trip to Hasbro's headquarters in Rhode Island, where he learned in depth about the world of G.I. Joe. Sommers then met with Paramount brass, who sparked to his ideas. The studio is eyeing a summer 2009 release.

The film will see soldiers from all branches of the military fighting a terrorist group called Cobra, led by the Cobra Commander and featuring such villains as the Baroness, metal-faced arms dealer Destro, master of disguise Zartan and biker gang Dreadnoks.

On the good guys' side were heroes such as the mute ninja Snake Eyes and the fetching heroine Scarlett, who were led by a Joe named Duke.

The full name of the '80s toy line was G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, but in a reflection of the global nature of tentpoles and current geopolitical climate, the Yankee nature of the strike force is being dropped, with the team now having an international flavor.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

 

[pyonir]

:thumbsup:

 

[novasatori]

I thought it sounded cool till I got to the very last paragraph.
Since when is GI Joe a multinational UN peacekeeping force...

 

[FallenHero]

Originally posted by: novasatori
I thought it sounded cool till I got to the very last paragraph.
Since when is GI Joe a multinational UN peacekeeping force...

no crap.

Screw that hippy shit. GI Joe = raw america!

 

[BigJ]

Originally posted by: novasatori
I thought it sounded cool till I got to the very last paragraph.
Since when is GI Joe a multinational UN peacekeeping force...

Same thing I thought.

 

[mooglemania85]

sienna miller cast as baroness

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: novasatori
I thought it sounded cool till I got to the very last paragraph.
Since when is GI Joe a multinational UN peacekeeping force...

:music:America, fuck yeawww nevermind

 

[Rogodin2]

A peacekeeping force by another name just isn't the same as the USMC.

If snake eyes isn't a frogman, ninja, or ranger then I won't view the movie.

Rogo

 

[NoStateofMind]

I had thought of this movie years ago and came up with these as cast members.

Destro

Barroness

I can't think of the others right now.

 

[biggestmuff]

Originally posted by: PC Surgeon
I had thought of this movie years ago and came up with these as cast members.

Destro

Barroness

I can't think of the others right now.

Good thing you don't make films...or do you?


This PC shit needs to end soon. Will Sandstorm be an Arab?

 

[RaistlinZ]

Is it just me, or is there a force out there trying to take away our American heros? First they kill off Captain America, now they downplay the "American Hero" theme of G.I. Joe... which is what made it so popular to being with.

 

[HN]

destro

 

[Throckmorton]

I can't believe people are mad because it's a UN peacekeeping force. You want GI Joes riding around in uparmored Humvees (with no floor armor and upper kingpins wearing out) and wearing inferior and heavy body armor because whatever nanomagic armor Snakeyes wears wasn't lobbied with enough contributions?

Like Congress is going to approve 22 wheeled terrestrial aircraft carriers and laser rifles.

 

[Lithium381]

Originally posted by: mooglemania85
sienna miller cast as baroness

WOW who is she and how come i've never seen her before!