This just in: G.I. Joe is now going to be an international organization with a tremendously clumsy backronym.

Hey, Hollywood. If you think you can't market a movie based on American forces... don't try to pass it off as something else.

Wha?!



Um... Cobra Commander's not Scottish.

This is almost -- almost -- as bad as the proposed ThunderCats movie which had them as members of a rock band.

I was never a big G.I. Joe fan...but damn...that sucks.

I never like the Joes and this is a slap in my face even.

Sheesh, I loved the Joes. I watched 'em all the time growing up. This movie's gonna suck...

But Destro is a Scottish arms dealer. It sounds like they're cutting Cobra Commander out of the story.

Hey Hollywood, you're

Uh, no. That's retarded.

Also, while I can kind of understand their reasoning behind this, I didn't hear any news about international audiences not liking the U.S. military guys in Transformers (who were supposedly based on G.I. Joe from when they teamed up with the Transformers in the old Marvel comics).

Characters, attitude and tone are pretty important when dealing with a classic property, but so is plot... and more to the point, if you're going to take the position that characters, attitude, and tone are more important than plot, taking a property whose tone is A REAL AMERICAN HERO and making it an international organization is going wrong from the first step.

Yeah... International Joes... I can't say I've had that much exposure to the Joes (except for that infamous Transformers crossover), but this isn't just a slap in the face, it's a slap in the face with a wet penis.

That's just sick. And what Soylent said isn't very good either. I want to know who is playing the MIchael Bay role here, so I can go all Aaron on his ass.

Sienna Miller cast as the Baroness for the G.I. Joe movie.

Wow. I like it. I can imagine her with black hair and glasses and I think she'll look mighty fine.

P.S. I also love that G4 video of Olivia Munn as Baroness.

I am now officially raising G.I. Joe's suck alert to code red: Marlon Wayans cast as leader

Since when was Ripcord the leader of anything?

I had been cautiously optomistic on this one until now.

Damn, if it had been Damon Wayans cast in this, I would've still held out hope. At least he's done some action roles and I enjoyed him in 'em. But now, it's probably best to skip this movie.

That makes me very sad.

I don't know... the closest to an action movie that Damon Wayans has been in, as far as I can tell, is Bulletproof, and that was still mostly a comedy. Still, at least Damon is capable of acting a little.

The Last Boy Scout is ind of an action movie. And it's my favorite Damion Wayanes movie.

Six one, half dozen the other, this movie is gonna blow like an all girl version of Hamlet starring Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

Ewwwwww...

Yeah, I was gonna say something like that, KJB. But I just couldn't bring myself to comment on it.

Too busy vomiting at the thought of it, huh?

Is it safe to come back to this thread now? Thanks, Oogie. IESB.net has an exclusive interview with Transformers and G.I. Joe producer, Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

They talk about everything from why they went with Marlon Wayans, the decision to cast Ray Park as Snake Eyes (awesome!), other characters who might appear in the movie and what the future holds for a Transformers sequel. There's a lot in there.


BTW, I never read the comics but Snake Eyes was always one of my favorites and I was curious to know if he ever shows his face? Going by the cartoon, I just always assumed he was hidden under the mask and I liked it that way.

OK, so Marlon Wayans is Ripcord, but he isn't the leader. That's... a little better. I'm still not convinced it's a good thing, mind you.

Twinky, I don't remember it personally, but I've heard that Snake Eyes did remove his mask, and he was a blonde white guy with a bunch of scars all over his face.

Hm, okay. Well, with Ray Park playing him, I'm sure that'll be at least one thing I enjoy about the movie.

IESB.net confirms the casting of Zartan and Duke. They also have a pretty up to date cast list at the bottom.

Looks like the cast is just about complete:

IESB.net confirms the casting of Hawk and Duke.

Destro finally revealed!

Larry Hama joins G.I. Joe production.

Well I never did the whole G.I. Joe thing ( and its not because I am a girl), but I might go see the movie if I am persuaded to go by someone.

Latino Review says a few words about the final draft of the G.I. Joe script. Note: It's not a full review of the script as it sounds like Paramount asked them to take that down but they still say a bit about what they thought of the script.

G.I. Joe casts Cover Girl.

The Invisible Man from HEROES to become the new Destro.

I'm sure you meant the 9th doctor, his far more important and impressive role.

Heh, could be. But I figured more people around here would know him from Heroes.

Who?

Heh, for those who don't know, Christopher Eccleston (THE INVISIBLE MAN from HEROES ) also played Doctor Who for a season of the show.

Well played, sir.

*Chaomancer Omega takes a bow

SuperHeroHype has pictures of some of the cast, and pictures of Snake Eyes' costume.

Snake-Eyes looks pretty cool.

Yeah, I'm impressed that they decided to be so faithful to the original. Now I really want to see Destro and Cobra Commander.

Wow, Snake Eyes looks awesome. Really looking forward to seeing him on the big screen now.

They say "knowing is half the battle."


Here's the page that's linked to in the above article.

Channing Tatum (Duke) said that he was opposed to doing the film because he thought it was going to be too similar to his current war film coming out called "Stop-Loss" (set in the Iraq war). But he goes on to say that G.I. Joe isn't a war film, it's X-Men meets MI:III. He says it's absolutely not realistic.

Dennis Quaid (Hawk) says that it's going to be a big huge popcorn movie with a bit of the cartoon involved.

The english speaking Sienna Miller told Access Hollywood that she's required to do a lot of physical training to play the Baroness. She'll be wearing a black wig, leather and be using guns.

That first article is a little wrong, Destro's metal mask was explained (not sure where, probably in the comics): his ancestor was caught selling weapons to both sides during the English Civil War. The two sides wanted to punish him, but didn't want to execute him because they still wanted his weapons, so they made him wear a metal mask. Destro's clan turned the mask into a symbol of family pride.

You know, that even sounds familiar to me. I think I read it in a bio on some website. So yeah, you're probably right, KJB. Now we can see how close the movie stays to the material.

Well, if they aren't good on the content that should be at least something.

Scarlet revealed