G.I Joe Retaliation

[Brodie]

Its weird, toys are on the shelves already and comics in stores. Everything was full force for June.

But it was also announced today that the DBD bluray got a September 2012 release date. Which, thats most likely wrong, but it was all announced in the same 10 hour stretch.

[GK Punk]

I'm actually really disappointed in this news. I was very psyched for this movie.

[Ninjinister]

Yeah this announcement doesn't make a lick of logical sense. ALL of the promotional s**t is out there now. By July nobody's going to even give a crap anymore.

[Slap-Happy]

Word is that they're "redesigning" scenes for 3D (reshoots).

Also, Paramount is apparently trying to get Joseph Gordon Levitt back as Cobra Commander. Don't know if it's only for a voice role or if they're reshooting those scenes entirely.

[oldmanwinters]

I was curious to know how they were going to explain Scarlett's absence. If I remember, Rachel Nichols enjoyed her experience on the first film (outside of getting burned during a fight scene, I guess) and wanted to reprise the role, but the studio pretty much wanted to "clean house" as much as possible.

I've been assuming that she'll either be killed off-screen or else referred to as being "on assignment."

I took a peek at the prequel comics and it seemed like Scarlett had a pretty active role in those issues.

[Xav]

Yeah it's kind of odd the studio didn't want her back. I can't believe Adrianne Palicki would be that much cheaper.

[Brodie]

This sounds about right:

When it was announced that G.I. Joe: Retaliation had been bumped from its original June 29th release date to March 29, 2013, Paramount said that the reason was because the movie was being post-converted into 3D, but most of us knew better. It was simply too strange that the studio would pull one of their biggest blockbusters of the year one month before release. Now the truth has come out and it's not really about 3D at all: it's about the fear of Spider-Man.

THR has gotten the inside scoop on why Paramount decided to shift G.I. Joe: Retaliation to next winter and the reason is because the studio wasn't confident that the movie could compete with Marc Webb's The Amazing Spider-Man. Set to be released on July 3rd, webhead would have only given G.I. Joe five days, at most. at the top of the box office, and many anticipate that the success of The Avengers will translate to greater success for all superhero movies, including our friendly neighborhood webslinger. Also helping out box office numbers next year will be the added 3D, which should pad Paramount's international numbers quite nicely.

But the other reason for the move is Mr. Channing Tatum. Watching the trailers for G.I. Joe: Retaliation, it's pretty clear that Tatum, who played Duke in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, bites the big one early in the film. With 21 Jump Street and The Vow performing as well as they did, however, the studio is thinking that killing Tatum off wasn't the best idea in the world. It's expected that in the next nine months Tatum will be brought in for re-shoots so that they can expand his part - which is a clean way of saying that he could be resurrected...

From Cinema Blend

[Logan]

Ugh... and I was excited at the prospect of Tatum being virtually absent from the movie. *shakes fists at the heavens*

[Xav]

Anyone else see the film? I thought it accomplished what it needed to do, be a 100 minutes toy commercial. Though I did feel Flint and Lady Jaye should've been Rip Cord and Scarlett.

[ObiWanFan4life]

Just saw it and.....Meh. It's better then the first one (which ain't sayin' much) and it had some cool action scenes. It's Okay, but nothing noteworthy. 5 out of 10

[TheCanadiandrome]

i loved it, yes better than the first, but because of those cool action scenes

[STORMSHADOW__210]

Strictly speaking as a huge gi joe fan,i loved it.As a movie on its own...it was good.