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General Joe Talk / GI Joe 2 to be released on June 29, 2012
« on: March 05, 2011, 09:40:47 PM »
The News is out, The Movie has a release date! August 10, 2012!
http://www.filmshaft.com/g-i-joe-2-gets-a-summer-2012-release-date/
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. You either like something or you don’t. Just because it might be a little bit naff but passable crash-bang-wallop-what-a-movie entertainment doesn’t mean you should hang your head in shame. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, released all the way back in that balmy August of 2009, was one of those films. And for the record, I’ve a soft spot for another Stephen Sommers movie – Van Helsing. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Paramount liked G.I. Joe, too. So much so they’ve gone and hired both a director and announced the sequel’s release date. So pencil in August 10th, 2012. Because that’s when the second instalment of the action toy franchise will be getting an outing (at least in the US and A).
Stephen Sommers is not returning to the director’s chair for this one, and more interestingly a good majority of the cast aren’t, either. Jon Chu has been chosen to direct and yesterday star Rachel Nichols told the world via Twitter that there’s only a few original characters/cast returning with Lee Byung-hun (Storm Shadow), Ray Park (Snake Eyes) and Channing Tatum (Duke). Given Rachel Nichols’ tweet, can we gather she’ll be back?
Chu recently caught the Bieber Fever and made that documentary about the Canadian pop moppet. Quite why Paramount saw him as perfect for directing G.I. Joe 2 is a mystery best left unsolved. Although one doesn’t have to use Holmes-like powers of deduction to suggest the sequel will have a much lesser budget than Sommers’ film, which was bankrolled to the tune of $175 million dollars.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn’t returning to the cast as the baddie. Nor Dennis Quad, nor Sienna Miller. Let’s face it, Gordon-Levitt was a big sell for the first one, so any new additions/replacements to the cast will be noted with interest.
Expect more news on this in the coming weeks, months, etc, etc.
http://www.filmshaft.com/g-i-joe-2-gets-a-summer-2012-release-date/
I don’t believe in guilty pleasures. You either like something or you don’t. Just because it might be a little bit naff but passable crash-bang-wallop-what-a-movie entertainment doesn’t mean you should hang your head in shame. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, released all the way back in that balmy August of 2009, was one of those films. And for the record, I’ve a soft spot for another Stephen Sommers movie – Van Helsing. Yeah, yeah yeah.
Paramount liked G.I. Joe, too. So much so they’ve gone and hired both a director and announced the sequel’s release date. So pencil in August 10th, 2012. Because that’s when the second instalment of the action toy franchise will be getting an outing (at least in the US and A).
Stephen Sommers is not returning to the director’s chair for this one, and more interestingly a good majority of the cast aren’t, either. Jon Chu has been chosen to direct and yesterday star Rachel Nichols told the world via Twitter that there’s only a few original characters/cast returning with Lee Byung-hun (Storm Shadow), Ray Park (Snake Eyes) and Channing Tatum (Duke). Given Rachel Nichols’ tweet, can we gather she’ll be back?
Chu recently caught the Bieber Fever and made that documentary about the Canadian pop moppet. Quite why Paramount saw him as perfect for directing G.I. Joe 2 is a mystery best left unsolved. Although one doesn’t have to use Holmes-like powers of deduction to suggest the sequel will have a much lesser budget than Sommers’ film, which was bankrolled to the tune of $175 million dollars.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn’t returning to the cast as the baddie. Nor Dennis Quad, nor Sienna Miller. Let’s face it, Gordon-Levitt was a big sell for the first one, so any new additions/replacements to the cast will be noted with interest.
Expect more news on this in the coming weeks, months, etc, etc.
, now it is not that great for GI Joe. I beg to differ. On the last sale (Christmas) I was able to get a really great set of GI Joe RoC plastic plates. Okay my wife would not let me buy them. 
