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Director Jon Chu dissects the G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer with Empire Magazine

Interesting…sure, we’ve seen a number of interviews at this point, but Empire Magazine takes a slightly different tactic, going through the latest theatrical trailer, scene-by-scene with G.I. Joe: Retaliation director Jon M. Chu.  Some very cool insight sprinkled throughout, and an interesting way to interview the director.  I dig it.

Thanks to Mr. Chu’s Twitter feed for directing us to this!  Check it out at EmpireOnline.com.

G.I. Joe: Retaliation director Jon Chu speaks with Slashfilm

More great press coming out of Cinemacon last week, this time from Slashfilm, who have posted a very extensive interview with Jon Chu.  While there aren’t a ton of details or new spoilers revealed throughout this particular piece, they have a great discussion about G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and what was good and what potentially went wrong with that film.

Jon Chu has a terrific perspective on the Rise Of Cobra, and how the property emerged from that Hollywood infused production.  I found it really interesting to read about his perspective on the 80’s universe and how that works with the whole “original Joe” idea with Bruce Willis.

Check out this great interview over on Slashfilm right here.  It’s some good stuff.

Thanks to Jay from ENewsI for the heads up.

Bleeding Cool talks to director Jon Chu about G.I. Joe: Retaliation

Apparently G.I. Joe: Retaliation director Jon Chu is making the rounds, as he has spoken with the folks at Bleeding Cool about the politics and satire of the upcoming G.I. Joe film sequel.  The discussion focuses mostly on the amount of satire within the film, which is something that script writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick excel in.

But the most interesting part of the article mentions that we should keep our eyes on Bleeding Cool as they plan on talking a lot about the “ambitious action scene centrepiece”, which sounds like something we should all look forward to!

Check out the full details at Bleeding Cool.

Report from Brazil on early screening for G.I. Joe: Retaliation

GeneralsJoes visitor alvarobm sent me a link yesterday (I believe) about a Brazilian website that had posted a report on the early footage screening for G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  He seemed to indicate there was some information there that hadn’t been discussed in other reports.

The only problem…the site is in Portuguese.  I did the whole Google translate business, but it wasn’t really giving me what I was looking for.  But then alvarobm stepped in and offered to translate it for me!  I can’t thank him enough for the offer, and sure it’s not a perfect word-for-word translation, but I think it works well enough.

For any potential spoiler information I am putting the report after the jump, and if you want to check out the original site, click here.

Again a huge thanks to alvarobm for the translation!

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G.I. Joe: Retaliation perspective after new footage revealed

One of my most popular posts directly after the posting of the original G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer were my 10 questions or answers revealed from the trailer. It seemed to be a very well-trafficed post and I got some great feedback on it, so I figured I would revisit the idea now that we not only have a new theatrical trailer, but we also have some awesome, spoilery details revealed from some early footage screenings.

I will endeavor to write this post keeping spoilers to a minimum, but folks trying to keep 100% pure from potential revelations may want to avoid it. Really, though, I’m just using my own perspective, not much inside knowledge. So, upon these new details and trailers, what do we know now and what is still to find out?

Click the Read the Rest of the Story link below to read my thoughts.

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