GI-Joe live action movie

Zor · Post by **Zor** » 2007-09-02 02:45pm

I am not concretely sure if this is exactly sci-fi or fantasy.

Considering the fact that the transformers worked out ok (it had its falts, but i have seen MUCH worse takes on transformers Glares at Armada, Energon and Cybertron), could a major film company make a live action GI-Joe fill and pull it off without sucking?

Zor

Patrick Degan · Post by **Patrick Degan** » 2007-09-02 04:25pm

As long as the Baroness remains a raven-haired beauty in specs and black leather and Lady Jaye has the best boobs on the Joe team, I won't complain that much.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-09-02 04:27pm

Actually, Transformers was originally going to be G.I. Joe, but some thought a flag waving movie about soldiering during the Iraq and A-stan fiasco would be a bad move. So instead we got Transformers, which I am thankful for.

I seem to recall even the original concept for the Transformers toys was basically an add-on to G.I. Joe, with human controlled transforming mechas.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-09-02 04:33pm

I seem to recall even the original concept for the Transformers toys was basically an add-on to G.I. Joe, with human controlled transforming mechas.

Part of the original toyline started life as Diaclone toys, which had little platsic driver figures (which is why some of the mid-eighties toys had cockpits, including the dinosaurs) but I don't think they were explicitly related to GI Joe.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-09-02 04:36pm

Curse the lack of an edit - the Diaclone toys were spun-off from Microman, little 3.75" figures that inspired the smaller GI Joe figures.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2007-09-02 05:24pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Actually, Transformers was originally going to be G.I. Joe, but some thought a flag waving movie about soldiering during the Iraq and A-stan fiasco would be a bad move. So instead we got Transformers, which I am thankful for.

I seem to recall even the original concept for the Transformers toys was basically an add-on to G.I. Joe, with human controlled transforming mechas.

Apparently it's going to be an international team this time for the movie as opposed to strictly American military. Which could make since what with the ninjas and all.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-09-02 05:31pm

Admiral Valdemar wrote: I seem to recall even the original concept for the Transformers toys was basically an add-on to G.I. Joe, with human controlled transforming mechas.

Nope, Diaclone was a separate toyline.

Although there was work done on a scrapped GI Joe/Transformers line, where the TFs would turn into vehicles that the Joes could ride in. There are even a couple prototype figures out there, and it's a shame they never developed the line further.

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2007-09-02 06:19pm

That's what I get for trying to piece together '80s toy history from old sales pamphlets and my daydreams.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2007-09-02 06:58pm

I don't think they ever actually announced them (since it was back in the 80s before huge toy expos and the like) but I know there are pictures on the Interwebs.

Bug-Eyed Earl · Post by **Bug-Eyed Earl** » 2007-09-02 07:39pm

Stephen Sommers is directing a GI Joe movie, with the writer of Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean writing it.

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2007-09-02 08:28pm

Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:Stephen Sommers is directing a GI Joe movie, with the writer of Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean writing it.

Sommers is not exactly the director I was hoping for.... this is on the road to cheesy.

And from what I hear it is about a smaller unit and not the large team, so that sucks.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2007-09-02 08:33pm

If it's huge, there won't be enough time to dwell on any of the characters.

It's also probably something of an origin film, so it's probably just the core team members.

Sommers isn't too bad, though he has been on a downturn.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2007-09-02 10:00pm

Death from the Sea wrote:
Bug-Eyed Earl wrote:Stephen Sommers is directing a GI Joe movie, with the writer of Collateral and Pirates of the Caribbean writing it.
Sommers is not exactly the director I was hoping for.... this is on the road to cheesy.

And from what I hear it is about a smaller unit and not the large team, so that sucks.

You mean GI Joe isn't supposed to be cheesy?

tim31 · Post by **tim31** » 2007-09-02 10:30pm

Further to that, what was your reaction when you heard Bay was directing Transformers?

Davis 51 · Post by **Davis 51** » 2007-09-02 11:00pm

tim31 wrote:Further to that, what was your reaction when you heard Bay was directing Transformers?

Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but my reaction was FUCK YES!

As for GI Joe, I'm not too familiar with Stephen Sommers other works.

Darth Fanboy · Post by **Darth Fanboy** » 2007-09-02 11:28pm

This movie was already made. AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!

I would be down to see this movie but they must have Destro, and he must be a bad ass. Also, If they can pull of Snake Eyes but without heaping him with an overabundance of emotional baggage and too much backstory. LEt him be a silent bad ass and thats it.

Davis 51 · Post by **Davis 51** » 2007-09-02 11:54pm

Hasn't GI Joe gone through like two other scripts already? IIRC, the first one was tossed for sheer suckitude (didn't even have Cobra,) the second one was uber faithful to the original cartoon, to the point of it being unfilmable.

Mind you, this is secondhand information, so take with a grain of salt.

Death from the Sea · Post by **Death from the Sea** » 2007-09-03 01:16am

Davis 51 wrote:
tim31 wrote:Further to that, what was your reaction when you heard Bay was directing Transformers?
Well, I don't know about the rest of you, but my reaction was FUCK YES!

As for GI Joe, I'm not too familiar with Stephen Sommers other works.

I knew that it was going to be over the top and it would kick ass as an action movie. Don't get me wrong there was lots of room for Bay to fuck it up but he did ok considering.

Sommers has brought us screen gems (sarcasm) such as The Mummy, The Mummy Returns, Deep Rising and Van Helsing....

I enjoyed Deep Rising a little bit, but only in a see who survives the monster movie kind of way.

GI Joe could be done really well, but for some reason I smell all new and original characters being created for this movie (one of my major complaints of Transformers) and I am hearing that Cobra is not going to even be in the movie...

Zwinmar · Post by **Zwinmar** » 2007-09-03 03:23am

Its not GI Joe without Cobra. Its Universal Soldier then.

Anyways, It could work out, depending on how they work it. But yeah I agree with Degan, the woman have to be smok'n.

Though my favorite was Gung Ho....yeah go figure.

aerius · Post by **aerius** » 2007-09-03 09:55am

As long as the Baroness, Lady Jaye, and Scarlet are true to form and smoking hot and there's lots of shooting and fighting it can't really go wrong. For best results, throw in Destro, Cobra Commander and Serpentor and have a nice double cross in there somewhere. It has the potential to be one of the best movies ever.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-09-03 10:36am

GI Joe: absolutely nothing to do with the US Army.

"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."

I don't see this going well. At all. It sounds closer to the Action Man cartoon - I wish they'd made a movie out of that.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2007-09-03 10:54am

aerius wrote:As long as the Baroness, Lady Jaye, and Scarlet are true to form and smoking hot and there's lots of shooting and fighting it can't really go wrong. For best results, throw in Destro, Cobra Commander and Serpentor and have a nice double cross in there somewhere. It has the potential to be one of the best movies ever.

You want cloning in there? I'd say stick with Destro and Cobra Commander, and you get a nice double cross there already. Serpentor's kind of unnecessary.

I don't know, unless they change his origin I don't see it really fitting in if they try to be at least kind of realistic. Barring the costumes, code names, and ninjas.

FedRebel · Post by **FedRebel** » 2007-09-03 11:29am

August 24, 2007 - Who needs A Real American Hero? Not Paramount or Hasbro it seems. The studio's live-action feature film version of G.I. Joe will no longer revolve around a top-secret U.S. special forces team but rather an international operation.

So what's the point in calling it "GI-Joe", since that is the nickname for US soldiers?

In a follow-up to their confirmation that Stephen Sommers will direct G.I. Joe, Variety offers this new description of the team: "G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity,

If you loved Enterprise's "MACO", you'll love this new BS acronym, "GIJOE"

They can't be serious, they just can't be....

...I miss the eighties

Another thing, why exactly is it based in Brussels? Other than miniature cabbages and getting overrun by the Nazi's, what has Brussels done to make it a suitable base for an international military force?

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."

Let me guess, Cobra is no longer a terrorist organization and the name is a BS acronym for a much longer retarded name.

So why the changes? Hasbro and Paramount execs recently spoke about the challenges of marketing a film about the U.S. military at a time when the current U.S. administration and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are at a low-point in global polls.

Who in the Hell is in charge of Paramount and Hasbro?

There are a good number of movies that are coming out (or have come out while we're in Iraq) that involve the US military. Claiming that it's not proper or "PC" is just Bullshit of the highest order

When a studio makes a film as expensive as G.I. Joe will likely be, they want to know that as many people as possible around the world will want to see it. In other words, G.I. Joe -- "A Real American Hero" -- is a tough sell.

Who was the wise guy that green lighted it in the first place?

If it's such a a horrific idea to have the US military fight an evil terrorist organization, then the script should've just found its way to the shredder.

Although the new G.I. Joe team will be international in scope, don't expect Joe's British counterpart Action Man to be included after all. IESB.net reports, "Looks like he will be gone, this new script is set to be 100% GI Joe, it will revolve around the characters we all grew up with fighting Cobra, Destro, the Baroness and Storm Shadow.

No it won't

As stated this is an international force now, so a number of characters will change nationality and become different (perhaps even drastically different) from the characters we know and love.

When do they expect to have this new script ready? Six to eight weeks. Pre-production is expected to start by October-November and production to start early '08."

Then time is of the essence, if you are a true Joe fan, let your voice be heard!

"GI-Joe a real American hero forever! GIJOE an international hero NEVER!

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura added, "My experience with beloved properties is that characters, attitude and tone are even more important than plot. ... Paramount showed a great deal of confidence in Stephen's take, and our ability as producers to get this up and running for a February start. His passion for the characters and the world convinced the studio this was something they couldn't resist."

Yep, so important are the characters that we're going to change them from Americans into "Internationals"

I'm beginning to wonder if the largest contributer of LA smog is the marijuana smoke from the Paramount lot.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2007-09-03 11:32am

Other than miniature cabbages and getting overrun by the Nazi's, what has Brussels done to make it a suitable base for an international military force?

It's the headquarters of NATO?

NeoGoomba · Post by **NeoGoomba** » 2007-09-03 01:03pm

Patrick Degan wrote:As long as the Baroness remains a raven-haired beauty in specs and black leather and Lady Jaye has the best boobs on the Joe team, I won't complain that much.

Sorry, I'm forced to disagree. My pre-pubescent memories clearly state that Scarlet had the best rack for the Joes.