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Raph's Girl 12-20-2007 01:21 PM
G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra discussion (Please use Spoiler tags)
 
Tried to find the old thread I had started for this film but couldn't find it...hrm.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071220/film_nm/gijoe_dc_2

The "G.I. Joe" brigade is growing larger. Rachel Nichols ("P2"), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ("Lost") and Said Taghmaoui ("The Kite Runner") will join Sienna Miller and Ray Park in the live-action movie based on the popular military doll and its comic-book and cartoon series spinoffs.

Stephen Sommers is directing "G.I. Joe," which is slated for an August 2009 release via Paramount Pictures.

The cartoon series featured military soldiers fighting a terrorist group called Cobra, with characters like the mute ninja Snake Eyes (Park) on the side of the good guys.

This latest version has G.I. JOE, which stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, as an international force of operatives set in Brussels.

Nichols will play a skilled martial artist who specializes in hand-to-hand combat and counterintelligence. Akinnuoye-Agbaje will play an ordnance expert, and Taghmaoui the team's communications specialist. Miller will play the Baroness, known for her espionage skills.

GK Punk 12-22-2007 11:34 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raph's Girl (Post 579127)

This latest version has G.I. JOE, which stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, as an international force of operatives set in Brussels.
I could swear Hasbro themselves denied that The Pitt would be located in Brussels, and that GI Joe would operate out of the US?

cqb101 12-23-2007 12:10 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Michi heavenly6 (Post 579565)
I could swear Hasbro themselves denied that The Pitt would be located in Brussels, and that GI Joe would operate out of the US?
I heard the same thing...

GK Punk 01-09-2008 02:20 AM
For those wondering, The Pit IS NOT, again, NOT In Brussels. I don't know why all these sites keep saying it is, It's confirmed for a second time here:

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option...4061&Itemid=99

Quote:
LDB: Ok, let me be really clear on this point. G.I. Joe headquarters in the comic book is based in the Pit. As in the comic book, you don't know where the location of the Pit is. So, the idea that it's based in Brussels is false, the idea that it is a European base or an international kind of organization is false. It is the G.I. Joe Organization.

Raph's Girl 01-28-2008 07:13 PM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/film_nm/tatum_dc_1

Channing Tatum has joined the "G.I. Joe" team.

Tatum will play Duke, a key leader of the G.I. Joe crew. Sam Worthington originally was to play the role in the Paramount film. Worthington, however, could not coordinate the production's schedule with his current work on James Cameron's "Avatar," which has run over schedule.

Tatum, who had been cast in Oliver Stone's My Lai massacre film "Pinkville," found some time in his schedule after that production was put on hold because of the writers' strike.

He joins Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Rachel Nichols, Marlon Wayans, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Said Taghmaoui and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in the live-action film, which is set in the future and based on the popular Hasbro action figures.

Stephen Sommers is directing from the latest script, penned by Stuart Beattie.

The film is scheduled for an August 7, 2009, release.

Tatum, who will appear in the upcoming "Fighting" with Terrence Howard as well as the war drama "Stop Loss," starring Ryan Phillippe, has also been cast in "Public Enemies," the period crime drama from Universal that stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale.

cqb101 01-28-2008 07:25 PM
For someone who's a nobody he seems to be getting a lot of high profile roles all of a sudden.

GK Punk 01-28-2008 07:41 PM
You missed out on Arnold Vosloo being cast as Zartan today as well.

Spitfire 01-28-2008 07:50 PM
I don't think I even need to say anything this time.

Jester 01-28-2008 08:47 PM
If this has a live action version of the opening to the 80's animated Joe movie, I'd laugh my head off.

"Who would dare oppose the deadliest of foes? Cobra! COOOBRA! Cobra! COOOBRA!"

GK Punk 01-29-2008 12:35 AM
And Dennis Quaid has been cast as General Hawk.

Sweet.

cqb101 01-29-2008 12:50 AM
I'll be honest here and say that I have no problem with the casting so far. All of the actors atleast look the part of the characters, and it's a pretty impressive list of names. The only thing that scares me is Stephen Sommers.

Raph's Girl 01-31-2008 01:18 AM
http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=21261

Quote:
Superhero Hype reports that David Murray is cast in the role of Destro in the big screen adaptation of G.I. Joe.

Murray's film credits included King Arthur, and Batman Begins.

Murray will join Channing Tatum (Duke), Dennis Quaid (Hawk), Ray Park (Snake Eyes), Sienna Miller (The Baroness), Rachel Nichols (Scarlett), Arnold Vosloo (Zartan), Marlon Wayans (Ripcord), Saïd Taghmaoui (Breaker), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Heavy Duty), and Byung-hun Lee (Storm Shadow). No word yet on who will play The Cobra Commander.

Filming for G.I. Joe will start next week in Los Angeles, and the movie will be in theaters in 2009.
When in doubt... get the Wayans brothers...they'll do anything for money....

Wait a sec... Dennis Quaid?! Hmmm

GK Punk 01-31-2008 01:26 AM
Wayans has been known for a good while now, at least a few weeks. And read my post above yours, I already said Dennis Quaid is General Hawk. In other news, Larry Hama is now a consultant on it as well, apparently. that gives hope for the film.

Edit: review of the final shooting script: http://www.latinoreview.com/scriptreview.php?id=73 (SPOILERS, obviously)

Raph's Girl 01-31-2008 01:46 AM
I was looking up one of the G.I Joe characters for somebody cuz they'd never heard of him. That character being Ripcord played by Marlon Wayans...who it turns out is a white guy in the comics.


http://www.myuselessknowledge.com/joe/ripcord.html

GK Punk 01-31-2008 01:57 AM
Yeah, that's been a huge center of controversy among Joe fans. The general feeling is the character is basically Sgt Stalker, with Ripcord's name. No idea why they went this route, but I'm still hoping they'll change his name over to Stalker during filming. Stalker is a MAJOR character in the Joe universe, having him be absent from the movie would be a shame.

KROW 01-31-2008 02:15 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Michi heavenly6 (Post 586989)
Yeah, that's been a huge center of controversy among Joe fans. The general feeling is the character is basically Sgt Stalker, with Ripcord's name. No idea why they went this route, but I'm still hoping they'll change his name over to Stalker during filming. Stalker is a MAJOR character in the Joe universe, having him be absent from the movie would be a shame.
True, though having the wiry Marlon Wayans play Stalker would be a shame, too. Michael Jai White, on the other hand...

The rest of the cast looks like gold (especially Storm Shadow), but I'm iffy on Tatum as Duke. I haven't seen him act so I can't judge how he would be as one of the flagship Joes. Murray as Destro is pretty surprising. He was the thug in Batman Begins who shouted, "Where are you?!" Both guys are a wait-and-see scenario for me.

cqb101 02-11-2008 02:59 PM
Christopher Eccleston (Destro) - 2/11/08 (IESB)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/61/17...6aa7bd700a.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2401/...e138a900c3.jpg

Dennis Quaid (Hawk)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1326/...877e2248d1.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1080/...f9843ea82e.jpg

Arnold Vosloo (Zartan)

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2394/...b579b468d3.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/...9dc5d7728f.jpg

Channing Tatum (Duke)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/82/21...4d735ee651.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/64/22...3545ad0565.jpg

Sienna Miller (The Baroness)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2252/...091660383d.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1388/...8bbddbf49b.jpg

cqb101 02-11-2008 03:00 PM
Ray Park (Snake Eyes)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/...52af3904c2.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1016/...8ed3590d5f.jpg


Rachel Nichols (Scarlett)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2154/...7e7b4770ae.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/25/65...ed02f12db6.jpg

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Heavy Duty)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1392/...8ff99532af.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/103/2...1f685216ee.jpg

Said Taghmaoui (Breaker)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2378/...b9d4dec4e2.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1319/...712fa02132.jpg

Marlon Wayans (Ripcord)
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2331/...10b47c8931.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2373/...98b9488ca0.jpg

cqb101 02-11-2008 03:01 PM
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Rex)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/242/4...9181e04831.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1052/...06f6566fbb.jpg

Byung-hun Lee (Storm Shadow)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...tormshadow.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1066/...40ff6e769a.jpg

Karolína Kurková (Cover Girl)
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/159/3...e1119acacb.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/3...20d9849f5c.jpg



Great casting so far, IMO.

Raph's Girl 02-11-2008 04:01 PM
WTF? Um.. dude... Chris Eccleston isn't Destro. David Murray is. And another thing. Joseph Gordon Levitt is Cobra Commander not Rex. Get yer facts straight! :P

cqb101 02-11-2008 04:09 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raph's Girl (Post 589298)
WTF? Um.. dude... Chris Eccleston isn't Destro. David Murray is. And another thing. Joseph Gordon Levitt is Cobra Commander not Rex. Get yer facts straight! :P
You get your facts straight. David Murray was let go because of problems with his working VISA and was replaced with Eccleston (http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option...1&article=4293), and apparently "Rex" is Duke's best friend who later becomes Cobra Commander. Might wanna read up on a little news before you go questioning people. have a nice day.

Raph's Girl 02-11-2008 04:14 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by cqb101 (Post 589305)
You get your facts straight. David Murray was let go because of problems with his working VISA and was replaced with Eccleston (http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option...1&article=4293), and apparently "Rex" is Duke's best friend who later becomes Cobra Commander. Might wanna read up on a little news before you go questioning people. have a nice day.
Bunts! Sorry about that. Wikipedia needs to update their news then, plus I hadn't seen the news at other places. Humm... Eccleston as Destro.....Im not so sure about that... :ohwell:

Brodie 02-11-2008 04:31 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raph's Girl (Post 589310)
Bunts! Sorry about that. Wikipedia needs to update their news then
Maybe you shouldn't get your news from Wikipedia, considering it allows people like you to make and edit the news.

Raph's Girl 02-11-2008 04:50 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by Brodie (Post 589329)
Maybe you shouldn't get your news from Wikipedia, considering it allows people like you to make and edit the news.
Generally I don't go to Wikipedia for news. But they're usually good with the links I can't find and I haven't seen anything about Chris Eccleston joining the cast of G.I Joe. I don't like IESB much. They're not entirely accurate when it comes to news and generally their news is so obscure that it's not on any other news site. This is the case for the Chris Eccleston casting.

Had cqb101 actually posted a link with the announcement of Chris Eccleston joining the cast then I wouldn't have said what I did. Instead he just went out and posted a picture. I thought he was joking. To me this came right out of nowhere. I DID say I was sorry tho. :P

ZariusTwo 02-12-2008 08:21 AM
Destro has been officially cast



http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35575

cqb101 02-12-2008 11:32 AM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZariusTwo (Post 589462)
Destro has been officially cast



http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35575

You're a little late on that news.;)

KROW 02-14-2008 01:01 PM
Wait. Tommy from 3rd Rock is Cobra Commander?

O...kay... :|

gobo 02-14-2008 01:50 PM
I was thinking the same thing. Strange... Very strange...

GK Punk 02-14-2008 01:55 PM
For the record, the Rex/Cobra commander story has reportedly been scraped.

Raph's Girl 02-14-2008 03:23 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by ZariusTwo (Post 589462)
Destro has been officially cast



http://www.aintitcool.com/node/35575

Ah good... now it's official... Now...will Destro be able to turn invisible and travel thru time?? :D

GK Punk 02-14-2008 03:52 PM
It's official "Now"? It was announced via various media outlets several days ago.

GK Punk 02-14-2008 04:17 PM
Ladies and Gents, General Hawk http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option...4319&Itemid=99

Raph's Girl 02-14-2008 04:52 PM
Quote:
Originally Posted by GK (Post 590021)
It's official "Now"? It was announced via various media outlets several days ago.
IESB.net is not what one would consider as "several" media outlets. It wasn't announced anywhere else but IESB a couple days ago. :P

GK Punk 02-14-2008 04:55 PM
Funny, the GI Joe board I post at had multiple links. Of course, none of it is was Wikipedia, so what do I know. And of course, it's not like IESB isn't dealing with Larry Hama himself or anything. Oh wait.

FireFly 02-19-2008 08:29 PM
heres some info from Toyfair thanks to one mr.Justin Bell

Quote:
Originally Posted by General Hawk
Quote:
Originally Posted by mr. peasant
Darn. In that case, is there any chance of a brief description of the concept art (especially character designs)? Unless they made you guys sign a confidentiality agreement too. ;)
It was very tough to isolate a really concrete picture, because the pictures were whipping by so quickly.

- There was a Night Raven type of plane. Not an SR-71, but a double-winged, long black stealth-type plane that looked cool.

- A snowmobile like the Polar Blast that seats 2-3 people

- Some type of hover type of vehicle (single person) with a control console

- Some type of CLAW-type jetpack, but was a little bit bulkier. Actually reminded me some of the Jet Wing jetpack from Sigma 6.

- Heavy Duty seems VERY reminiscent of Roadblock, with a bald head and black goatee.

- Breaker has a very tech-oriented suit, with cybernetic headgear and goggles.

The problem is a ton of concept art was shown with no indication of what was final and what were merely early design concepts. In fact, a few different samples of art were shown for the Baroness (including one with skulls on it that looked pretty neat) so it's tough to say what was final and what wasn't.

One of the cooler scenes appeared to be a scene of a nice dramatic martial arts battle on top of the Capital building with a lightning storm in the background...I'm thinking Snake Eyes/Storm Shadow.

Justin
Quote:
The Movie:

Yes, Hasbro showed a 10 minute "behind the scenes" look at the movie production, including some animatics (non final computer generated animation) some concept art, and interviews with the people involved in the movie's production. The piece involved lots of fast-moving pictures, it was tough to make out lots of the details.

One sequence involved a pair of operatives in "Nano-tech suits" that enable them to move very fast. The animatic shows them zipping through the streets while being chased by rocket-firing vehicles. There is lots of impressive acrobatics (flipping through moving vehicles, dodging rocket fire, etc...) and aspects that seem like they will look VERY cool in live action form.

As an advance warning: the film looks like it will be a lot more future-tech science fiction based than super real-life military action. I know this will bother a lot of people, but I think it could be cool. I mean, let's face it, G.I. Joe has always had a very strong science fiction element from the very start, so I think certain aspects of this make sense. The vehicle concepts are VERY cool (a nice Night Raven-esque Blackbird type of fighter jet).

There are going to be jetpacks, floating weapon-platforms, glider jets, submarines, and all sorts of pretty neat looking future weapons. Straight up, this will disappoint some of the military purists, but I think to the general public who's looking for a new and exciting effects-laden action flick, it will satisfy. It was all very early stuff, but also looked pretty cool, too.

We got quick looks at a couple of what looked to be COBRA Troopers in animatic form, and they were wearing a nice armored, blue uniform that looked fairly COBRA-like (from what I could tell with the quick flash).

That's what jumps out at me so far, shoot questions and I'll answer what I can. I'll be offline a lot of the day tomorrow as I travel back home, but I'll answer what I can.

Justin
i'm sorry but i just have to say it

SIGMA 6 LIVES!!!!!!!!!!

GK Punk 02-19-2008 09:23 PM
Woah, hold on a minute there Sparky. Power Suits aren't new to GI Joe with Sigma 6 ;)
That and the US Military really is working o n those suits.

What board to you post at? JBL?

gobo 02-19-2008 09:28 PM
Oh... I thought this was supposed to be a live-action movie. CGI Joe is a tad less appealing.

FireFly 02-20-2008 09:09 PM
just animatics i think that's what justin said but the idea of stormtrooper/hiegaist styled cobra troops sound amazing to me

and yes i post at JBL name overthere is KINGOFNOD5

cqb101 02-22-2008 09:59 PM
Pictures of Duke and Baroness:

http://www.joblo.com/duke-baroness-pics


Meh.

CudleyCowlick 02-23-2008 12:44 AM
<--- Summons up a mental image of Sienna Miller with black hair and glasses and gets all tingly inside. :thumbsup::thumbsup:


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