Yo Joe! G.I. Joe is a Go!!
08-23-07, 08:18 PM
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Yo Joe! G.I. Joe is a Go!!
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Stephen Sommers, huh?
G.I. GO: LIVE-ACTION "G.I. JOE" GREEN-LIT WITH STEPHEN SOMMERS
by CBR News Team, Editor
The Hollywood Reporter broke news today that Paramount Pictures has finally green-lit a live action film based on the hugely popular toy, animation and comics franchise “G.I. Joe.” Directed by Stephen Sommers (“Van Helsing”), “G.I. Joe” is to depict the classic versions of the characters made famous by the 1980s morning cartoon and Marvel Comics series.
Although “G.I. Joe” has enjoyed lasting success in many mediums, it is likely the enormous silver screen popularity of another 1980s toy franchise, the Transformers, expedited the green-lighting of this film.
“G.I. Joe” comics are still in print and currently produced by Devil's Due Publishing.
by CBR News Team, Editor
The Hollywood Reporter broke news today that Paramount Pictures has finally green-lit a live action film based on the hugely popular toy, animation and comics franchise “G.I. Joe.” Directed by Stephen Sommers (“Van Helsing”), “G.I. Joe” is to depict the classic versions of the characters made famous by the 1980s morning cartoon and Marvel Comics series.
Although “G.I. Joe” has enjoyed lasting success in many mediums, it is likely the enormous silver screen popularity of another 1980s toy franchise, the Transformers, expedited the green-lighting of this film.
“G.I. Joe” comics are still in print and currently produced by Devil's Due Publishing.
08-23-07, 08:23 PM
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Well there's no need to make GI Joe a gritty action flick, it'd be nice, but it would limit their audience.
I like Sommers overall, but his last two flicks were The Mummy 2 and Van Helsing....thats some bad aftertaste.
I like Sommers overall, but his last two flicks were The Mummy 2 and Van Helsing....thats some bad aftertaste.
08-24-07, 02:34 AM
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fat@ss brendan frasier will be Flint. sorry but unless they make this a real military movie i think it will be very bad. at least transformers had robots crashing into each other and limbs flying off. it needs a serious tone with snakes eyes vs. stormshadow clashing. jets and helicopters blowing up and the pilots parachuting to safety will come across very PG'ish. that's what was so lame about the cartoons. all the destruction and no one ever died.
I think he can make this very entertaining.
08-24-07, 07:50 AM
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Originally Posted by DVD Josh
Truth be told that's not a bad casting.
The key characters, Cobra Commander, Destro, Snakey Eyes, and Storm Shadow, all wear mask, so I wonder if there will be much stunt casting for those.
08-24-07, 08:40 AM
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I thought I read a week or two ago that Sommers was off the project. Is he back onboard now or something?
EDIT: Nvm, found my answer here. Apparently, he was off the project but was hired on-the-spot again when he pitched his "vision" to producers.
Doesn't sound too bad to me ... the way I see it, the only way a live-action Joe film would work is if they make it close to the Mission: Impossible films in tone.
EDIT: Nvm, found my answer here. Apparently, he was off the project but was hired on-the-spot again when he pitched his "vision" to producers.
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.
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08-24-07, 12:31 PM
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good lord...not Stephen Sommers...please no
aaargh!
aaargh!
08-24-07, 03:31 PM
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With the exception of all the potential he pissed away with 'Van Helsing' I think Stephen Sommers knows how to make a decent and entertaining action flick, so this should be a good time. I'm in.
08-24-07, 03:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Shannon Nutt
Could have been worse...could have been Michael Bay. 
08-24-07, 10:00 PM
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1) "A Real American Hero" is now going to be a Brussels based outfit?
2) Cobra is being led by Destro (the "double-crossing Scottish arms dealer")?
Er... this has me concerned.
2) Cobra is being led by Destro (the "double-crossing Scottish arms dealer")?
Er... this has me concerned.
08-25-07, 12:52 PM
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I'm optimistic with Sommer's at the helm. I liked the Mummy movies and Van Helsing.
I'm surprised that no one has posted the obligatory "Jason Lee was born to play Shipwreck!" comment.
I'm surprised that no one has posted the obligatory "Jason Lee was born to play Shipwreck!" comment.
