Details on just what GI Joe is going to be about

[GreenScar]

ComicCon really has delivered on a lot of news. If anyone's interested in GI Joe, here's some details on the movie. Not sure if these would be considered spoilers:

On The Challenges Of Turning the GI Joe Universe into a movie:
There was so much material they couldn’t decide how to keep as many characters as possible and still do them justice. So they decided to attack the film from the character point of view. Because of that, there is no single story to carry you through the movie. There is a bad guy plot throughout, but no single storyline. Instead, they have several different storylines. For example there’s the relationship between Duke and Baroness, between Scarlett and Ripcord, between Stormshadow and Snake Eyes. To get to all the characters, they’ll have to wait for the sequel.

On Staying Faithful To Source Material:
They wanted to give Snake Eyes a single line in the film, but Larry Hama made absolutely certain that they didn’t have Snake Eyes talking. They chose to make the team an international force instead of an American force as it has been traditionally because they think it better reflects the modern realities of fighting terrorism, which is a global threat.

On Being Released In August:
An August release date was chosen to avoid competing with Transformers 2, which is also a Hasbro property.

Plot And Character Details:

- The film is an origin story for Cobra.
- Instead of having a bunch of 4 minute action sequences, the film will only contain 4 total action sequences, but those action sequences will be more than 10 minutes long. They describe these action sequences as “staggeringly huge” a “gigantic experience.
- Duke and Ripcord are our window into the world of GI Joe in the film. They do not start the movie as Joes, and the movie follows them as they become part of the team.
- Dennis Quaid has a significant role as Hawk. Extra scenes (10-15) were written specifically to give him more time.
- The black costumes we’ve seen the characters in are their battle armor. They have other looks.
- Scarlett is written and played as super smart and utterly oblivious to her sex appeal.
- Marlon Wayans was told to be funny as Ripcord, but also really serious. He was hired primarily because of the great performance they saw him give in Requiem for a Dream.
- Heavy Duty is written and played to be “tough as nails”. Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, the actor playing him, kept pushing them to give him bigger guns and bigger moments. Heavy Duty was selected to be in the film instead of Roadblock, simply because he appealed more to the film’s writer Stuart Beattie.
- Destro starts the movie as the lead villain, and is the mastermind of what happens.
- Baroness: Sienna Miller plays a bad girl with torn loyalties.
- In the film, Duke and Baroness were once engaged. Duke left her at the altar and as a result Baroness has a lot of anger towards Duke.
- There is as “love triangle” between Ripcord, Scarlett, and Snake Eyes. Snake Eyes has a way of showing up whenever Ripcord tries to make his move.
- The film will explore the history between Snake Eyes and Stormshadow. We’ll see them as 10 year old kids meeting for the first time, then examine what it was that drove them apart.
- Film was shot on location all around the globe in places like Paris, Kirkastan, Washington D.C., the Sahara Desert, and the Arctic.
- G.I. Joe creator Larry Hama plays the head of NATO in the film.

[wnicholas76]

Sweet! I can't wait until next year! Although G.I. Joe will be in competition with June's Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, I still can't wait, especially to see how Dennis Quaid and Channing Tatum will do as General Hawk and Duke, respectively!

[Moefiz]

JB...you need to take a brake...

Too much news for a Saturday afternoon...

[Drewza89]

Sounds like an awful lot of material to cram into one movie. I hope it doesn't turn out like David Lynch's Dune. I'm a fan of Stephen Sommers' movies and several of the actors, so I'll probably see it.

[GreenScar]

Originally Posted by Moefiz

JB...you need to take a brake...

Too much news for a Saturday afternoon...

I'll tell you what, I wish I was at ComicCon! There's a ton of great news coming out...

[Heart_Collector]

Awesome news. I always thought it was odd that GIJoe was "The Real American Hero", but the ranks were always so multi-national. Making it a NATO force just makes sense to me. Oh, and don't make Sake-Eyes talk. Ever.

[STARSCREAM]

I hope they do GI-JOE justice. As a huge fan of the show as a kid I have been highly pessimistic on this one so far as everything I have read just oozes bullsh*t. I am glad to see that they decided to not let Snake Eyes talk. Maybe after all the outrage on forums they are going to fix some of the stuff before the movie comes out.

[Grant Matrix]

It's going to be great when this film flops on a Speed Racer level! Then maybe the studios will either leave this great 80s icon to the comics and cartoons or hire some people who will do it right. Duke and the Baroness .... love triangle between Ripcord, Scarlet and Snake Eyes ... I mean WITFBBQ are these producers and writers smoking crack or what. Just from the news we have heard to date about this movie it is going to suck. All they did was take the GI Joe name and slap together some half-rate producing/writing/directing staff and make any ho hum action movie that we have seen a hundred time before! Maybe we will get lucky and the stuido will realize their epic mistake of failure and scrap the project before it's too late!

[Lord_Stewie]

this link has 2 Exclusive Clips from the G I Joe move.

Be Forewarned, there are spoilers in this link.

Otherwise enter at your own expense.

http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/1809993532/video/14631877

it actually looks cool