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[Stealth Viper]

Stephen Sommers? (at least he's been offered the role)

Director of such films as:

Deep Rising
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Scorpion King

and most recently,

Van Helsing.


Linkage:

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=co ... &Itemid=99

Thoughts?

[martin-montreal]

For more info on the storyboard (If you don't want to know the strory, don't read it):
http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=7

Martin

[Stealth Viper]

For more info on the storyboard (If you don't want to know the strory, don't read it):
http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=7

Martin

that's only one of 4 scripts hasbro/paramount commissioned, so take it with a very large grain of salt

[grunt 4 mvp]

Stephen Sommers? (at least he's been offered the role)

Director of such films as:

Deep Rising
The Mummy
The Mummy Returns
The Scorpion King

and most recently,

Van Helsing.


Linkage:

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=co ... &Itemid=99

Thoughts?

I didn't mind the first four for mindless entertainment, but I couldn't even sit through Van Helsing.

[Pete The Greek]

To early to tell on the director....and I haven't watched those movies (I am not a movie guy).  It will depend on the script, how much CGI will be used and what direction they go with (I suspect PG-13 for Hasbro to sell toys).  Regardless, I don't expect this to be the GI JOE I grew up with (just like Transformers).   

[Radio Guy]

From Entertainment Weekly:

Stephen Sommers hired for G.I. Joe
Paramount has signed Sommers (director of the Mummy movies and Van Helsing) to helm what it hopes will become another hugely successful toy-based movie, ? la Transformers: a live-action G.I. Joe. The new flick, which will begin production in February for a 2009 release date, presents G.I. Joe not as any particular war hero but as a high-tech, Brussels-based operative force ? the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity ? that does battle with evil organization Cobra. The movie is said to be closer in tone to X-Men and Bond flicks than a war film. Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce, along with Hasbro chief operating officer Brian Goldner.

"Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity"....Guess people in Europe won't buy tickets to see A Real American Hero.....that's ass....

[morgardee]

As long as they make as many G.I.Joe toys as they made for the Transformers film I don't care what they want GI Joe to stand for. I'm in the frame of mind that the movie won't be what I expect it to be but I can say the same thing about Transformers the movie and I liked that one.

Still, the chances of this film being craptacular are high. Doesn't bother me at all because there is no way they are going to make G.I. Joe anything like the cartoon or comic. Cartoon was from another era and the comic is just way to involved for the average person who isn't in the know of Joe.

On a side note, I expect us to hit the # 50 mark for different versions of Snake Eyes if the movie does happen. That dude is like Batman. They'll give him a new outfit just to change a light bulb.

[Stealth Viper]

A brief story synopsis. I would say this is likely the truth, as it fits in perfect with the less than subtle questions the Hasbro Joe team were asking us at the con.

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=co ... ticle=3422

[Redmao]

On a side note, I expect us to hit the # 50 mark for different versions of Snake Eyes if the movie does happen. That dude is like Batman. They'll give him a new outfit just to change a light bulb.

  that's a good one!
Light bulb changing SE
Commando SE
Night watch SE
Wall climbing SE with the climbing down chase version

Oh boy.

[grunt 4 mvp]

A brief story synopsis. I would say this is likely the truth, as it fits in perfect with the less than subtle questions the Hasbro Joe team were asking us at the con.

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=co ... ticle=3422

That's a TON of characters to bring into the first film. Although they don't name Joe names, that sounds like it's gotta be 15+ significant characters at a minimum.
Wow.

[Stealth Viper]

Sienna Miller has been cast as "The Baroness"

http://imdb.com/name/nm1092227/

http://www.variety.com/article/VR111797 ... id=13&cs=1

[morgardee]

Who?

I don't know her at all.