I’ll be the first one to admit that it’s been unusually quiet on the Hollywood front when it comes to G.I. Joe. In light of the negative press and the adequate, but not stellar 350 million dollar box office take, while Paramount reported a sequel would move into production, we really haven’t heard much.
Sure, the snippet of news announcing Zombieland scribes as the script writers… news that Stephen Sommers may come back to direct. Maybe it’s just because Transformers 3 is already so deep into production that it seems oddly silent.
But in a potential point of good news (depending on your perspective, of course), movie rumor site The Wrap has gotten its hands on a supposed email document from within Paramount. Of course, Paramount has already denied its authenticity, so who really knows how real it is. Regardless, it does mention G.I. Joe 2, mentions Stephen Sommers directing, and that folks are “VERY happy w/the Reese & Wernick draft”.
Ultimately, this likely means little, but for those few of us who are looking forward to how G.I. Joe evolves its movie universe (or perhaps other folks are looking to see what they can do to repair it), this is a nice snippet of news. Hopefully as 2011 kicks off we may start hearing more about it.
Thanks to Entertainment News International for the tip.
I think we can at least all be happy that with Inception out now, there will be less complaints regarding Joseph Gordon-Levitt being in the Joe sequel.
I really enjoyed the story within the story of RoC (you know how we like to dig between the lines to the backstory) and Hasbro’s development of the Pursuit of Cobra toyline really hints at some fun things for the future of G.I. Joe. I just want to see them keep the story fresh and the movie line entertaining. So far, so good.
What about “Hasbro Factory” – a “night at the museum” type film set in a toy factory, on the same list (if it’s genuine). 3.75″ Joes/Cobra causing chaos…anyone?
cant come soon enough for me.
can’t die a miserable death soon enough for me.
i really dont understand why the hate towards RoC.
Not sure how to answer that 788. What I mean is, I find it hard to answer this type of question without being labelled a mindless hater which I really don’t see myself to be. But I’ll give it a shot.
To each their own of course and I really don’t want to be one to say what one should or shouldn’t enjoy, but from my point of view, RoC is a mockery of everything I love about GIJoe. It was in the end what I would imagine someone who really hated GIJoe would come up with in order to take a shot at all GIJoe fans.
Now that’s not to say that the movie isn’t enjoyable all on it’s own, as a seperate entity, as everyone is saying, a mindless summer popcorn flick. Something I hate and do not support on any level let alone with my favorite franchise. For instance I also hated the “we think our audience are a complete bunch of morons and we’re going to spend almost an entire two hours insulting them on every level” Star Trek re-make either.
But RoC is now THE representative of what the GIJoe brand is to most of the regular public (that’s just what happens with a high profile movie). As such I resent the fact that instead of being a movie about elite military forces battling an evil terrorist organization hell-bent on world domination, with great focus on what it means to be a good and moral person representing America, we get a bunch of mindless yahoos who see nothing wrong with cracking jokes and having the time of their lives as they trash Paris with their goofy (bad CGI) powersuits and then engage the enemy in the middle of a busy building causing gunfire in all directions (and if there had been any realism to this film many innocent people would of died because of GIJoe, not even Cobra). And that’s just one of a long, long list of problems with this film.
The whole thing is more Spy Kids (teenage style) than say Soldier (look and feel)and therefore while franchises like Star Wars and almost all modern comicbook movies are geared towards adults, GIJoe seems aimed at very, very young kids which is an injustice to the actual age of the fanbase let alone the kick ass Joe universe Larry Hama gave us in the early comics. Besides this, kids always prefer things seemingly geared at adults anyway, so the marketing doesn’t sway me either.
Add to all this that my main interest in the GIJoe franchise are the action figures. RoC had the worst GIJoe figures I’ve ever seen. I even preferred the neon, glow in the dark 92/93/94 figures to the first few waves of RoC. The last couple waves had some good figures, but the ones directly based on the movie stuff were atrocious. Simple, cheap and ugly to look at.
So in the end, anything RoC related causes me to feel anger,embaressment (as a fan of GIJoe) and my gag reflex to kick in. Oh, and great puzzlement that there are people who actually like GIJoe who also like this movie, as I see absolutely no connection between the two.
I guess in the end it’s a matter of what one likes about GIJoe and what one doesn’t. Can’t really say anything of what I love about GIJoe made it into the movie, but almost everything I hate sure did (though Sgt Slaughter and Cobra-La didn’t make an appearance so I guess I can be grateful for that 😉