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[bandonov]

I saw this on the web:http://www.superherohype.com/news/articles/113211-stephen-sommers-will-not-direct-gi-joe-2-

by Silas Lesnick
Jan 5th, 2011Other directors are currently being courted for the sequel
Despite some earlier reports to the contrary, it appears that Stephen Sommers will not be returning for the as-of-yet-untitled G.I. Joe sequel.

The news comes courtesy of the Los Angeles Times, who also claim that Paramount is searching for a new director for the action sequel which is currently in the scripting stages with Zombieland writers Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick working on the first draft.

Sommers, who directed 2009's G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra, is meanwhile said to be attached to the Dean Koontz novelization Odd Thomas.

[bandonov]

Oh what fantastic news! Hope for a better movie....

[bandonov]

Okay, I did not hate the first movie, but it could have been much, much better....

[martin-montreal]

Okay, I did not hate the first movie, but it could have been much, much better....

I admit... I really didn't like the movie, so this is a good news to me.

Martin

[Sureshot]

Not really Sommers' fault it was a lame script. Not that I hated the movie either, but I'd say the writers were more to blame for its weakness than anybody else.

[Sundance]

erm, he co-wrote the story...

[roger dodger]

Let's hope the next director and company get it right. I didn't mind the re-imagining of the GI Joe team in modern day, but I wish it had been truer to the original story. They changed stuff they didn''t need to change.

[SnowHawk]

I don't blame Stephen Sommers for the movie.  I put more blame on Channing Tatum.  When you hear that Sam Worthington was up for the role and had to back out and Channing got it.  Imagine taking Worthington from Avatar/Clash/Term. Salvation and have him as Duke, you would have had an amazing movie.  

I love Rise of Cobra and watch is every couple months or so but I think it was Duke and Ripcord who let the movie down.

[morgardee]

I liked the fact that they made a G.I. Joe movie but I have not been able to watch this movie a second time. I've tried to watch it a few times but ultimately loose interest.

[silentdusty]

This is good news to me, Sommers does good action, which he did in RoC, but he fails alot on plot, and getting performances out of actors. Mind you, I agree with some of the others that the blame doesn't lie solely on Sommers, Channing Tatum is a terrible actor, and I expected a bit better out of Dennis Quaid. Most of the other performances weren't that bad for an action movie, Marlon Wayans while annoying, wasn't nearly as annoying as I expected him to be. I still watch this movie on occasion, and I still cringe at some parts of the movie, but I was entertained. I just hope that the next Joe movie does more than just entertain me.

[thatcarlguy]

I think its great news. I didn't hate the first one on first viewing but by the third time I saw it...I felt it all but killed GIJOE for me. So its still better then Transformers 2 but not by much. Transfomers 2 totally killed the brand for me.

Perhaps the second one will be like the second Hulk and they'll go in a totally new direction.

[Stratos]

Okay, I did not hate the first movie, but it could have been much, much better....

Agreed. And hope the sequel will be better.

Still honestly trying to figure out how the current comic & toy "sequels" will play into the movie/s mythos... like how in the heck Zartan is out in the desert and not still in the White House...