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I recently read in Lee's toy review either issure 174 or 175 that GI Joe the movie is all depending on Transformer movie success.

 

Also Mark Walberg expressed interest or even signed on to play Duke if the script is good.

 

I recently saw SHOOTER, it was an excellent movie and Marky Mark was a convincing special forces soldier.

 

I also think that the director of Antwain Faqua should direct it. He directed Training Day, King Arthur, Tears of the Sun and Shooter I think.

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I`m pretty sure Transformers the movie will be a hit. I know even 56 year old women who are dying to see it. Even the non fans are seeing it as a sci fi thriller. Though I still think Gi Joe in a live action format would be incredibly corny and too far fetched like Street Fighter was. I would still see it like Street Fighter though @loll@ .

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Unfortunately, the script sucks from what i read...(i had the whole thing in a pdf but it was on my old computer)...i dont think we'll get any big name actors on the roles. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

 

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Unfortunately, the script sucks from what i read...(i had the whole thing in a pdf but it was on my old computer)...i dont think we'll get any big name actors on the roles. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

 

-saboteur

 

They'll probably get one or two in order to carry the film into production but your right that we probably won't get many (if any) big name actors/actresses

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If Transformers does well enough (and apparently a second is already scheduled... alot of time dumped to stop at one) I don't see why other 80's properties couldn't pop up. Rumors of He-Man being in the hands of a movie company is being whispered too. I don't think GI Joe would be cheesy. If they can do live action comic movies, Star Wars, transformers and etc... then GI Joe wouldn't be too far-fetched.

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Though I still think Gi Joe in a live action format would be incredibly corny and too far fetched like Street Fighter was. I would still see it like Street Fighter though @loll@ .

 

Depends. At its core, GI Joe is less far-fetched than any of the other '80s properties - it's a special ops group formed to counter a specific terrorist threat, Cobra. Tell me you can't make a great action flick out of that premise.

 

Read Rainbow Six and use that as the basic concept, but replace the eco-terrorists with villains who are a bit more James Bond-ish. Take Arnie in True Lies - super agent, anti-terrorist guy who also knows how to fly a jet fighter. Take away a bit of the bulk and the Austrian accent and there's your basic model for Duke, Flint, and the rest. Add a team element like in X-Men, but replace the powers with different military specialities.

 

All you need is a good director (James Cameron being the ideal choice, but from their past work it's obvious someone like Brian Singer or whoever did Fantastic Four would be good too) and a decent writer. Have someone like Mark Walberg as Duke and fill the rest of the cast with relative unknowns based on solid acting and chemistry with the others. Keep the cast small enough to manage... I would say that Duke, Snake Eyes, Scarlett, Stalker, Roadblock, and Spirit are a good place to start. A computer specialist would work well too, but for nostalgia's sake it'd be nicer if it was Mainframe instead of Hi-Tech. You could have some cameos by Doc and Lifeline (patching up some wounds back at base), and Hawk as the overall commander (but not the star). Basically, the team should be about a hundred-strong, but the cast itself would have a tailor-made squad (about ten) as the main characters.

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from the script so far, Its gonna not be what you want it to be, its gonna be a dumbed down hollywood Bflick movie.

 

think what AVP did for fans who had been wanting it for ages.

all we wanted was a 2hr movie of Aliens and Pred's killing each other, and we got some

BS melodramatic human story.

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from the script so far, Its gonna not be what you want it to be, its gonna be a dumbed down hollywood Bflick movie.

 

think what AVP did for fans who had been wanting it for ages.

all we wanted was a 2hr movie of Aliens and Pred's killing each other, and we got some

BS melodramatic human story.

 

Unfortunately, this is a very likely possibility.

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Unfortunately, the script sucks from what i read...(i had the whole thing in a pdf but it was on my old computer)...i dont think we'll get any big name actors on the roles. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

 

-saboteur

 

They'll probably get one or two in order to carry the film into production but your right that we probably won't get many (if any) big name actors/actresses

 

 

I think they'll only use semi-famous actors to keep their costs low like they're doing with the TF movie.

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Depending on script & director, this could be either great or horrible news for us G.I. Joe fans. Hopefully we'll get someone with at least a passing knowledge of the Joe universe at the helm. All I ask at that they stay as far away from Cobra-La as possible.

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If they did the gi joe movie in the same way that they did batman begins, it would be sick... if they did it like the previous 4 batmans, than there will be problems.

 

What are you talking about, the first two Batmans were cool! I mean, if you're not a Tim Burton fan, I totally understand, but lumping them with the last two just isn't right! ;)

 

Personally, I don't get why everyone loves Batman Begins so much. I just thought it was okay. But really, Batman, as a character, doesn't have much in common with GI Joe. The best superhero movies to compare GI Joe with are the X-Men films and Fantastic Four. That's how they should be done, without the superpowers of course. I'm telling you, all you have to do is combine the elements of X-Men and True Lies and you have a winner.

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Actually, the folks over at Latino Review were VERY positive about the leaked "Rex" G.I.Joe script.

 

It may not have been 100% loyal to the cartoon or the comic, but they liked it.

 

Something I found to be very interesting is that they said Destro was the one who ran the show. The Commander was there, at least as a "protoform", but it was Destro who financed the whole thing and put Rex (C. Commander) in command of Cobra.

 

...something like that.

 

 

 

This I can tell you: In no way should you expect a G.I.Joe movie to be 100% loyal to the cartoon, the comic or the filecards. The sooner you get accustomed to this concept, the better.

 

What should really worry us is whether the movie will be good or bad, not whether it will be what each one of us want it to be.

 

And it makes sense that it should be different. Each media is a different version, a different take on the same basic concepts.

 

 

 

 

Don't kill me.

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Well, the Rex script was terrible, in my opinion. I'm not expecting a movie to be 100% accurate either, but that went too far. Not that I'm that worried about it - scripts undergo many, many changes over a time and are constantly thrown out, revised, and rewritten right up until the final days of shooting.

 

My opinion is that, no of course a GI Joe script won't be 100% accurate, but even still, there are some core concepts to both the storyline and the characters that should remain intact. Let's just say that I would prefer this movie to be more like the recent Marvel and DC comic-book movies than what the Transformers appears to be.

 

I think the best argument you're going to find on this is Kevin Smith discussing his role in writing a new Superman movie (long before they did Superman Returns, mind you). I THINK that was on that special of him talking at various universities across the country... An Evening with Kevin Smith, I think it was called...

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I read part of that Rex script and I thought it was horrible, if the script for the movie doesn't draw from the source material I'll probably

boycott the movie and write an angry letter, not that it would do much @smilepunch@

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Well, the Rex script was terrible, in my opinion.

 

Oh, you actually have it?

 

If so, I'd very much like to read THAT!

 

No, I don't still have it. I can't remember if it surfaced here or on the Yojoe forums, but I do remember skimming through it and not liking what I read.

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