G.I. Joe Movie Not Really G.I. Joe
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:35 pm
Sigh.. one of the idiot producers behind the Transformers movie is going to screw up G.I. Joe next. Come on Lorenzo.. finish off my childhood by making a new Star Wars movie that isn't really Star Wars. Make Chewbacca a frog or something.
http://movies.ign.com/articles/771/771046p1.html
http://movies.ign.com/articles/771/771046p1.html
Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has revealed that Skip Woods (Hitman, Swordfish) is writing the screenplay for the live-action feature film version of G.I. Joe. Woods reportedly segued to the project after completing rewrite work on Live Free or Die Hard.
But fans should expect the G.I. Joe movie to be G.I. Joe in name only -- if the name is used at all. "Do you know Action Man? Action Man is the equivalent of G.I. Joe internationally pretty much. It's a different character, but pretty much the same idea and his name is Alex Mann. So we're creating a buddy movie between Duke and Alex. That's what we're doing," di Bonaventura told LatinoReview.com.
"All the characters will be there, and it'll be really fun but unfortunately our president has put us in a position internationally where it would be very difficult to release a movie called G.I. Joe internationally in a lot of places. I'm a big G.I. Joe fan and to add one character to the mix is sort of a fun thing to do."