Though there’s not a whole lot of new footage here there are a few new cuts and a couple of new lines of dialogue. Folks who watch the Walking Dead likely caught this last night on AMC, and now it’s up on YouTube courtesy of Paramount’s official G.I. Joe Movie YouTube channel.
Check it out embedded below!
You know things are picking up when I’m posting multiple “new sightings” posts in one evening! Along with the Wave 2 3-Packs, the variant running change discount store exclusives are also starting to appear…but not at Dollar Generals. At Marshalls!
Thanks to Rodimus88 of HissTank.com for reporting the first sighting, and more are incoming.
TO THE HAWKMOBILE.
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!
I know the rumors were flying after the delay of G.I. Joe: Retaliation that seemed to focus on star Channing Tatum. Without a doubt the focal point of G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Tatum’s popularity has exploded in the years since then, and with rumors circulating around his demise in the sequel film, many inside sources claimed to have knowledge that this delay would also include significantly more Tatum.
I never bought it.
Considering the star actor’s shooting schedule and the requirements it would take to bring actors and crew in to shoot significantly more footage of him, I just couldn’t see how they would manage to do all of that, all while converting the film to 3D over a period of 9 months. It has always been my suspicion that the sequel might feature different footage of Tatum, but would not necessarily feature more. I’ve always said I thought they might recut the film or tweak it, or perhaps add just a short bit of new footage perhaps to show that Tatum was not killed, but it was pretty unrealistic to assume they would squeeze in a lot more footage among the rest of the story.
According to producer Lorenzo Di Bonaventura this assumption is right on target. He spoke with Crave Online, and mentioned that while there was a little bit of new shooting involved with the new cut of G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Tatum will not appear in the film much more than he originally did. His exact quote was:
“It’s not much different,” Di Bonaventura says. “Literally, we shot for three extra days. We just added sort of explanation in what we did afterwards.”
Which does make sense. You can’t just bring in a single actor and shoot new scenes to broaden his scope in the film. It would involve the whole cast and crew and significantly more time and resources. The producer also said (speaking about whether the delay was to add more Channing Tatum to the film):
“No, it’s not,” Di Bonaventura says. “That is a complete rumor. I don’t know where that started. Literally, Channing shot for – if I have it wrong, I’m off by an hour – four hours, five hours? So it wasn’t really about that at all.”
I won’t argue that they likely reconfigured the film a bit to make it look as if Duke did not get killed as they originally planned…but as Di Bonaventura says, I believe the final film we see in March is not going to be vastly different from the one we would have seen in June…aside from the 3D.
Check out Crave Online for the full interview.
Good to see some more third party G.I. Joe love in the artwork world, and Acid Free Gallery has been knocking it out of the park. We saw their excellent Baroness print a short while ago as well as Scarlett, and now, we get a preview of the upcoming Duke and Snake Eyes prints!
Check out the preview on Acid Free Gallery’s Facebook page, and also mirrored below.
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