A big thanks to TheGabrielAngel at HissTank.com who cites Jaimie Trueblood as the source of the images. Trueblood is a Hollywood photographer, but I haven’t located these photos on his website as of yet. They’re simply too cool to ignore, though.
The assortment of images showcases some scenes we’ve seen before with Lady Jaye, Jinx, and Snake Eyes, but also features a new picture of Cobra Commander (with troops in the background) as well as a great image of Firefly riding the Cobra motorcycle.
Check out these fantastic images mirrored below. Thanks to The Strudel Commander for the info.
Even with all of the talk about converting G.I. Joe: Retaliation to 3D, we hadn’t really heard anything about IMAX. Well, we have now.
According to a Press Release on Daily Markets, G.I. Joe: Retaliation will “…be digitally re-mastered into the immersive IMAX® 3D format and released to select IMAX® theatres internationally starting March 28 and for a one week run in North America beginning March 29.”
So for folks with IMAX theaters nearby, make sure you’re hitting them to get the full G.I. Joe: Retaliation experience. Click the Read the Rest of the Story link below for the full text of the press release.
The Night Force love continues here at GeneralsJoes and over at GIJoeCon.com! Following up their first Night Force reveal with Charbroil yesterday, we have Muskrat and Psyche Out unleashed on us today. With some terrific parts, excellent call outs to the originals, and some awesome Toys “R” Us Exclusive accurate paint deco, both Muskrat and Psyche Out are awesome characters and look terrific in their new Night Force battle togs.
I grow more impressed every day…and if this stays like this, when I finally see Hit & Run? Yeesh. If I don’t post about it, call the authorities, I might just be passed out and convulsing next to my computer.
Check out the images at GIJoeCon.com and also mirrored below.
Yep, this pretty much seals it. Evidently a while ago, there was a G.I. Joe: Retaliation set visit, and now that the four minute featurette is getting ready to hit theaters this weekend, the embargo has been lifted and these folks are eager to discuss their experiences.
Screenrant comes back with some exclusive interviews with Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and others.
Apparently with the official reveal today of the four minutes of footage set to air before Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters, the lid has been popped on G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and stories are starting to emerge. First thing I noticed was an interview with Collider where Jon Chu talks about the delay of the film, the rumors about Channing Tatum and more.
The Collider interview can be found right here, but I’d like to touch on some things. Also, if you remember, Jon Chu’s first public comments about the film delay were made right here on GeneralsJoes and seem to echo much of what he says to Collider.
One of the cooler aspects of this article involves the fact that apparently at least one of the sequences in the film itself is a 10 minute “Silent Interlude” homage, which is pretty cool. The specific comments regarding the silent sequence can be seen below:
“JON M. CHU: That was definitely an inspiration. That’s where it all started. Obviously, ninjas are a big part of the movie, and we thought it would make it really unique from other franchises to have both the military and the ninja side. So, we wanted to make sure that we did something really different with ninjas that we’d never seen before. And because they have masks on and they don’t talk anyway, it was just a perfect place. We could tell story with their fighting. When you see the whole sequence together, it’s really fun. In fact, the fight between Storm Shadow (Byung-hun Lee) and Snake Eyes (Ray Park) has no music. We had score, a long time ago, and then we just played it once, when I was with the sound effects guys, without the music just to hear the effects, and it was so awesome. We were like, “We need to have their whole fight without music.” So, we brought it in and tried it, and knew people would freak out a little bit, but it’s so awesome that you can’t deny that it’s fun to watch them do their thing.”
Pretty neat. I think the fact that there is a sequence even without music is a really great touch. Most folks reading GeneralsJoes understand my stance on the whole “Channing Tatum” reshoot angle, too, and it seems like that was mostly confirmed by Chu as well:
“CHU: Yeah, that was a crazy time! I didn’t want to answer any of the crazy rumors that were happening, at that time, but the reality was the 3D. We were told they wanted it turned into 3D, and luckily we had the time to do that. It just so happens that the March date was a date that they could do it in, and that gave us enough time to focus on it. We didn’t reshoot anything. We didn’t go in and [add] Channing. I’m not going to say what happens to Channing in the movie. You have to watch the movie. But, there wasn’t any of all that crazy stuff, so we just ignored it. It’s funny, when the new trailer came out, everyone was like, “Oh, Channing is in it way more!” I just didn’t want to say anything, but it was very interesting. There were rumors that we shot more things, but we literally didn’t shoot anything. We had done some reshoots a couple days before all that, in January, that were just some pick-up things, but that’s pretty much it.”
But Chu doesn’t just talk about the delay, he brings up many other thoughts, too, speaking about how it felt to bring the HISS Tank to the screen, and many other very cool details. Check out the full interview on Collider.com. News is heating up!
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, the four minute sequence from G.I. Joe: Retaliation that we’ve heard about should be showing before Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters. Now Break.com has a 90 second preview of that… four… minute preview.
Heh.
Yes, this is a shorter preview advertising a longer preview, but c’mon!!! IT’s FRIGGEN SNAKE EYES vs. STORM SHADOW. Check it out at Break.com or embedded below. Now I want to go watch Jeremy Renner this weekend.
Yes, it’s been a while since we’ve posted an episode of What’s on Joe Mind, but hopefully we’ve made up for it with the length of this one! Clocking in at just over three hours, there’s enough G.I. Joe conversation here to keep any Joe fan satisfied.
We talk to legendary toy expert Mark Bellomo and winner of the What’s on Joe Mind Fantasy Football league (and operator of the awesome GIJoeGraphy site) Dan Uthman.
Check out the episode on our Podbean page, or via the embedded players below. Make sure to click the Read the Rest of the Story link to read the show notes.
And this just might be a figure that is better than his previous version. Far, far better.
Charbroil was always somewhat of a second rate Blowtorch in my opinion, and even though his Night Force version did add some nice credibility to the character (I really hated the brown, yellow, and silver look) he still wasn’t really high on my list of knock out characters. Of course, appearing in the same assortment as Hit & Run, one might expect he got a little overshadowed.
The Collectors Club has revealed their version of Night Force Charbroil now, and it is pretty nice. Using what appears to be the G.I. Joe: Retaliation Joe Trooper body from neck to toe (which I have ZERO issues with, as demonstrated by my Best Toys of 2012 article), he’s got a newly tooled helmet and backpack and even without a ton of detail work, the figure looks really nice. Love the combination of gray and blue here.
Check out the latest update at GIJoeCon.com, and I’ve mirrored the image below.
This Wednesday wraps up the latest iteration of IDW’s Cobra series, set to relaunch next month with “The Cobra Files” starting back at issue #1. From all accounts the format is remaining consistent with what we’ve been reading for the past several years, but with the renumbering of other titles, they’re doing the same with Cobra.
Check out the preview for issue #21 below.
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Cobra #21
Mike Costa (w) • Antonio Fuso, Werther Dell’edera (a) • Fuso (c)
OKTOBER ends! The battle between the covert G.I. JOE team and the OKTOBER GUARD takes a turn for the worse as COBRA forces bear down on their location… and they may just manage to eliminate both sides of the conflict. The consequences will be dire and this G.I. Joe team will never be the same again!
FC • 32 pages • $3.99
*Variant cover:
Joe Eisma and Juan Castro variant cover!
Bullet points:
The conclusion to the biggest COBRA story ever told!
The brochure has just barely hit mailboxes, and we have our first look at the 2013 G.I. Joe Convention Exclusives. And…well… wow. So far, so friggen GOOD.
GIJoeCon.com has fired up their Convention Exclusives section and we now have a look at Cobra Mortal, Cobra Letal, and the Frag-Viper! All I can say is hoooooly wow. They NAILED that Frag-Viper. Absolutely nailed it. The most amazing thing that I can see is that apparently the Collectors’ Club is getting access to some state of the art tooling here!
Check out that Frag-Viper and Letal. Eagle-eyed collectors will not that they use the body of the upcoming G.I. Joe: Retaliation Wave 4 “Ultimate” Snake Eyes! The texture on the chest, and the body suit itself is a dead give away. Wow…this is pretty unprecedented for the Club to have access to this tooling so quickly. Kudos to them and to Hasbro for making this happen.
In another nice touch, while the Club is revisiting the Cobra Mortal character, they elected to go with the only recently revealed “White Mortal” an extremely rare collectible that makes for one heck of a nice homage.
Take a peek at these incredible images on GIJoeCon.com, and I’ve mirrored them below as well.
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Keep your eyes peeled here and at GIJoeCon.com for more reveals throughout the week!
