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For many of us here GI Joe was either a 12 in tall action figure with cool weapons and kung fu grip...or it was the 3.5 in tall action figure with tons of vehicles, a comic book, a cartoon or ten and all aimed at the American kid...
But now with this new movie coming out things are being changed:
Oh and note the fan comments...
www.variety.com/article/VR1117970752.html?categoryid=1960&cs=1
Paramount Pictures has set Stephen Sommers to direct "G.I. Joe," the live-action feature based on Hasbro's line of action figures.
The studio is hiring a writer immediately, and has set a February production start for a summer 2009 release.
The accelerated production schedule began right after Sommers pitched his version of the film to Par chairman-CEO Brad Grey and production prexy Brad Weston on Wednesday evening. He was hired in the room.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce with Hasbro chief operating officer Brian Goldner. Sommers and his Sommers Co. partner Bob Ducsay will also be involved as producers.
While "G.I. Joe" served several futile tours of duty as a movie property, its momentum has been helped by "Transformers," the movie transfer of another Hasbro brand. That di Bonaventura-produced film has grossed $667 million worldwide for studio partners DreamWorks and Paramount.
Hasbro's Goldner said that the mythology of G.I Joe was fleshed out during the 1980s through 155 issues of Marvel Comics, as well as an animated TV series. There are about 30 core characters, good and evil, that can be exploited in films.
"Marrying Steve's vision with 25 years of this brand mythology feels like a great way to go forward," Goldner said.
While some remember the character from its gung-ho fighting man '60s incarnation, he's evolved. 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.
"Our vision (for "The Mummy") was clear the time the first trailer played during the Super Bowl, and by the time this one plays a Super Bowl, you'll see the coolest characters and visuals you can imagine, and beyond-state-of-the-art equipment," Sommers said. "I wouldn't have jumped into this just because of the Hasbro-Transformers tie. Remember, 'Pirates of the Caribbean was a big hit, but 'Haunted Mansion' not so much."
Di Bonaventura said the film has some of the elements that made "Transformers" work as a film.
"My experience with beloved properties is that characters, attitude and tone are even more important than plot," di Bonaventura said. "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."
WMA plugged its client Sommers into Hasbro, which left CAA to become a WMA client earlier this summer. Sommers haunted Hasbro's Pawtucket headquarters to steep himself in the lore.
WMA is also helping Hasbro with possible movies based on such properties as the board games "Monopoly" and "Battleship."
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| Posted: 16-Oct-2007 08:26 Post subject: No More American GI Joe... |
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If you want to see Monopoly, just watch the Documentary on Microsoft...
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| Posted: 18-Oct-2007 10:16 Post subject: No More American GI Joe... |
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Hopefully they will not jack it up. I miss the days of the GI Joe cartoons. Up until they started to ruin it with Sgt Slaughter. That whole WWF cross over was lame.
BTW I have a cool record and book from the late 60's that is GI Joe and the cobra. (the snake not C.O.B.R.A. of the 80's) Maybe I should put that out on E-bay when this movie comes out.
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| Posted: 29-Oct-2007 21:00 Post subject: No More American GI Joe... |
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www.lvrj.com/opinion/10849526.html
Reading this, I learned that Hasbro at one time put out a GI Joe doll modelled after none other than Medal of Honor winner Mitchell Paige and that:
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Mitchell Paige's only condition? That G.I. Joe must always remain a United States Marine.
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And now they are going back on a promise to such a man?
Shame on Hasbro!
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| Posted: 30-Oct-2007 21:22 Post subject: No More American GI Joe... |
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A recent Hasbro press release has it that the Joe headquarters will not be in Brussels, but rather The PIT, which was the underground base that the Joes used in the comics.
This means that unless they go for a new location, the base will either be:
*Under Fort Wadsworth (PIT I)
*Beneath the Presidio in California (PIT II, unofficial)
or
*In the Utah desert (PIT III)
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| Posted: 31-Oct-2007 05:22 Post subject: No More American GI Joe... |
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Hey could you post the link or something for this press release, I would like to share this with a couple of other folks.
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| Posted: 31-Oct-2007 08:03 Post subject: No More American GI Joe... |
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http://www.toynewsi.com/news.php?catid=9&itemid=12060
1. The PIT (most likely in America) will be the headquarters, not Brussels.
2. Duke will be in charge; it's implied that he'll be American. No mention is made of General Hawk, but then again Hawk didn't appear in the cartoons until 1986 due to his first incarnation being too visibly similar to Duke's.
3. There will be international Joes. There's been a few such Joes on the team before, plus the Oktober Guard and a plethora of foreign-exclusive characters to be tapped, and so as long as the team isn't overwhelmingly ethnic it shouldn't be an issue.
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| Posted: 31-Oct-2007 13:06 Post subject: No More American GI Joe... |
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Thanks!
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