If you’ve been looking for further, not-too-spoiler-y details on Stephen Sommers’s G.I. Joe flick, you should head over MTV Movies and read their interview with Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner. Though a good deal of Goldner’s disclosures are already common knowledge (e.g. comics scribe Larry Hama is working on the screenplay for the currently-in-production film), he does provide the most thorough outline of the plot that I’ve read to date. And while this is not, and probably never will be, on my list of must-see films for 2009, it does sound like they’ve put a great deal of effort into honoring everything fans loved about the comic books while avoiding the chintziness of the cartoon. Whether this will offset the politically timid decision to reconfigure Joe as a Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, we’ll just have to wait and see.
Quoth Goldner, “We all know of the Arashikage [ninja clan], and we all know of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, but we need to build that story. We all know the story of Duke, and the story of the Baroness. … We know the story of Destro, but do we really? We need to go back and tell the origin story of how you get a Scottish arms dealer, who comes forward in history — how does that happen?”
That sounds like a lot of story, which should make everyone nervous after the undisciplined failure of Sommers’s Van Helsing. But according to Goldner, there is a focus: “In effect, [G.I. Joe] is all about the rise of Cobra Commander (Joseph Gordon-Levitt). … For fans, they’re really going to love this, because we take them on a journey. … We have to go through the first chapter and then build from there.”
For more from Goldner, click over to MTV Movies for the rest of the interview. Paramount currently has G.I. Joe set for an August 7, 2009 release.
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So maybe I haven't been payinig much attention to the development of this film, but Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cobra Commander – what the hell?
I hope someone calls Destro "Chrome Dome" in the movie.
I like toys. I like movies. Especially movies based on toys. Oh "G.I. Joe", you will be the bestest movie ever in the history of everything!
Shouldn't that be the purefoy kid rather than the brick kid? Or get that Jonathan Rheys Meyers, how're you going to get a scottish accent off of Gordon-Levitt?
Levitt can do anything, Scottish or otherwise. That kid's my favorite actor right now.
Cobra Commander's not Scottish, Destro is.
I hope Zartan changes color when he "gets wet." Explain that one to the kiddies.
Zartan changes color in sunlight not when he gets wet. He multiplies when he gets wet.
Anyone else interested in starting a campaign to get Destros "pimp-daddy" costume in the movie?
steven sommers blows! His films have no story and just rely on sfx to reel in the watchers. The only person worse than Sommers they could have asked to direct would have been that no-talent greeb, Bret Ratner. X-Men 3? Arrgh!
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