I'm surprised they haven't come out with a GI Joe movie.

[D Mac]

If they did, who would play who?

[PapaGeorgio]

I recall hearing they are working on one. At least writing it. To lazy to look for a link or anything. So my source is my brain. Take it or leave it.

[Bad Company]

John Cena as G.I Joe

[Blitz]

They're working on it now. Rumours of Mark Wahlberg as Duke.

[Kane Knight]

They've been working on one now every couple of years for the last decade or two.

[ClockShot]

God. The cartoon move was great. Why this?

[Shaggy]

Stephen Sommers (Mummy Movies, Van Helsing) has been signed on as the director...

[Fignuts]

Ving Rhames as destro.

[weather vane]

Yeah if they do it I hope they make it right. GI Joe cartoon and movies were awesome.

[Boondock Saint]

Here's the latest I've read (from DarkHorizons)


"Net reports last week have been confirmed - "The Mummy" and "Van Helsing" helmer Stephen Sommers has hopped onboard the "G.I. Joe" film adaptation. The studio is hiring a writer immediately, and has set a February production start for a summer 2009 release..." (full details)

While some remember the character from its gung-ho fighting man '60s incarnation, he's evolved. G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer. The property is closer in tone to "X-Men" and James Bond than a war film.

[Fignuts]

Wait. Wait, one fucking minute. You mean to tell me that GI fucking Joe, real AMERICAN heroes, with the red white and blue in the fucking logo, is based in god damn Brussels? Thats like making the transformers movie and having them all transform into different canned vegetables instead of vehicles.

And how in gods name do you make a GI Joe movie and not have cobra commander as the main villain?

Was there some sort of contest I didn't hear about it where collecting enough Nabisco snack points let you write the script for a feature film?

[Boondock Saint]

Cobra Commander could be the Scottish arms dealer...:shifty:

[YOUR Hero]

Settle down, Fignuts.

[Fignuts]

No, I refuse.

This crap defies all sensible logic. I'm not even someGI joe fanboy or anything. It's just the sheer stupidity of it drives me insane.

How can you, a sensible human being, look at Boondock Saints info, and not get a nosebleed.

You know we're fucked as a society when we make a G I Joe movie, and base it in fucking Europe.

[weather vane]

yeah thats gay

[Nowhere Man]

My guess is that they're making it "international" so they won't offend or alienate non-American audiences. Kinda like how they took out "...and the American Way" from Superman. Such a fucking cop-out.

[Skippord]

Snake Eyes + Tony Jaa

just sayin'

[Kane Knight]

Of all the crap to complain about... :|

[PapaGeorgio]

http://joblo.com/gi-joe-gets-rewritten

Word on the street had it that the two existing drafts of GI JOE - one by Skip Woods the other by Paul Lovett & David Elliot - were pretty much crap. And the idea to combine those two crappy scripts into one movie sounded like it was a crappy idea. Once Stephen Sommers signed on to direct though, he was smart enough to require a complete rewrite. So Paramount has hired Stuart Beattie (COLLATERAL) to write a completely new GI JOE script while the other version will be chucked in the trash. As you may have heard, Sommers' vision for the film follows G.I.J.O.E., which stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity and is made up of an elite, international team of bad-asses looking to put the smack down on Cobra. No word yet on whether Cobra has a schnazzy acronym like G.I.J.O.E. Beattie has a number of projects on the way including 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, AUSTRALIA and SPY HUNTER. Paramount is looking to get Sommers in production in February for a big summer 2009 release.

Extra Tidbit: Beattie's first produced script was a kids kangaroo movie starring Ed Begley, Jr.

[Blitz]

Reports out there that Ray Park (Darth Maul) has been cast as Snake Eyes.

[Skippord]

Alright Storm Shadow should be Tony Jaa