Remember, everyone was so concerned about 'Transformers', and look how that turned out.......and that script went through a bunch of re-writes and the like.......don't jump to any conclusions.........YET

All in all - Transformers was a damn good comedy first :) At least I laughed a lot, and as I watched it with a whole Polish TF Fandom - I also know what was wrong there.

You know - giving Cobra Destro-like character for a leader is going the easy way. I think it'll be much easier to find an actor with scottish accent, dress him up in mask and here we go! And making a GOOD, maniacal CC or perfectly buid Serpentor is a challenge no one dares to take. Dunno why though.

And - well - I think that we should team up, kick some @$$es and make the perfect G.I.Joe movie together ;) TF proved, that no scenario or plot is needed at all ;)

I think I share your feelings about TF, Ion...!

Personally, having grown up with it, I don't mind the idea of an International Heroes team. I can understand why they'd want to do this -- they have to think of international markets when making blockbuster movies and the subject of American military action is quite touchy these days. An "Americans to the rescue because we know what's best" attitude is what they're worried about putting across in other countries. There's similar things going on regarding the upcoming Captain America movie because that by nature needs to be patriotic but can't have an attitude of American superiority. And after Team America: World Police, it'd be hard to do a film like that and get away with it...!

The only problem is the name; even if they use that stupid acronym, it doesn't make sense to use the generic soldier term because it's 100% American. Nobody else calls their soldiers GIs so the whole "average soldier guy" thing is lost. When I was a kid collecting Action Force, I occasionally saw US things and had NO clue what GI Joe meant. I actually thought it was one word, Gijoe (I would have pronounced it "gidge-oh") and it was a few years before I found out what it really said, and even longer before I understood it. So if you have to do a GI Joe movie and not an Action Force one, just base them in America and let them have international members...

Share your thoughts Stormer :)

Basically - I don't mint Joes being international team. But for God's sake... If they FORCE some well known characters to change their personality that'll be a disaster...
I just wonder - there's so much inique characters in Joe toyline, that assembling an original all-around the world team should not be a problem.
Oh yes... I forgot - this requires GOOD WILL and some KNOWLEDGE.
And personally - I'd be glad to see in film for example Big Ben or TF Blizzard (as far as I can remember TF one got Swiss or Austrian personality) or other guys. You know - seeing AGAIN Snake Eyes vs Storm Shadow could be boooooring - especially, that Hasbro overuses those characters.

Just don't make Stalker a Republic of South Africa nationality as this would be ridiculous! But fully within the wide Hollywood imagination...

And still - Cobra forces give quite an oportunity... I mean - they probably AGAIN use B.A.T.'s...
And then - we'll have a huuuuge fighting scene, with buildings being blown up, cars flying, bats dying and all.
Whoops, sorry for spoiling ;)

Jeeeeez.... It seems the Joe's are becomming Action Force... Not cool. Not at all. Even though I grew up with and adore AF... this just doesn't seem like a cool move at all...

G.I. Joe is the real American hero... For heavens sake Hasbro, keep it that way...

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I HOPE SO G.S. :)

HUH?

I ain't see a reply from Master Craig yet!

I read about this on the JBL and while I'm all for an international military team... I mean, I forget that GI Joe is very US-centric, but... Uh... Man... I think the mistake Hasbro made way back when WAS making GI Joe "A Real American Hero". I like the idea of a global force and they can call it GI Joe... But that would have had to be back in the 60s when it was first introduced. Not decades later when it's pretty much written in stone of what GI Joe is.

I think it can work but man... It could end up a military-like movie called GI Joe, just like Star Wars. *shrug*

I can't stand this crap!!!
All I have seen at the theaters are watered down versions of great comics! :mad: :mad:
I hope to god that they throw out those crappy directors in those movies and put in somebody good!!!!

lord if your willing, please

Let this be a hoax and have the G.I.Joe movie worth watching.
Let the Avengers movie be great too.

thanks for your time,
peace.

just to let everyone know that they've got a new writer and that they are throw out the previous two scripts and starting fresh :D

g :D :D d

Film Thoughts...
 

I have thought a lot about this and I find it a bit worrying. Maybe its the cynic in me. I remember scare mongering back at the time of the 25th A pictures being revealed, that the 25th thing was just an excuse to reboot the line. But what is this movie going to do? If everything is true that has been released so far, Action Force would be a far more appropriate name!

That said, is this new movie gonna cause the G.I.JOE we all know and love to lose it's identity? Let's face it... The Joe's won't be the Real American Heroes anymore... That is what Joe is... Surely?

What will this mean for our favourite characters and their histories as know them? Will Flint end up a Frenchman or something?

I'm going to be really cynical again and say that Hasbro may well be about to do what Paramount is about to do with Star Trek. Completely F**K it up in otherwords...

The time for a Joe movie was in the 80's. To do one now can only be to reboot the brand and profit from the current political climate of the world. Okay so America and their military isn't too popular at the moment... So lets push Joe into a Counter-Terrorist Unit, which is essentially what Joe pretty much was back in the 80's, the Real American Hero... But it seemed more army than anti-terrorism... Well with Anti-Terrorism being the thing these days, I guess it's just free enterprise on Hasbro's part.

In my mind any Joe movie should have the characters we all know and love stomping snake, while wearing costumes as close to the figure as humanly possible, using vehicles which are as close to their respective toy counterparts as humanly possible too. It's just not going to happen is it?

There seems to be a lot of new guys involved in the line now... What are their plans? How big will their input be in the movie? Will Larry Hama fix it?

Jeez so many questions... I just want to get you all thinking... What does the future hold for our toyline? The Real American Hero? If the movie info is anything to go by, G.I.JOE isn't going to be what we expect or hope for.

I guess I'm just thinking out loud... and preparing myself for yet another Hasbro related disapointment! :rolleyes:

If anyone made any sense out of my concerns and rants please feel free to give your thoughts. I'd really like to know everyones take on this. :cool:

D :D

With the movie rumours, and the one that Hasbro isn't going to renew DDP's comics license, and what they've already done in terms of the Sigma 6 universe, as far as things go for the GI Joe continuity I've grown up following I am on the verge of wailing "Death of teh line!!!"

I couldn't care less.
 

I couldn't care less about hasbro or the film. I agree with you about the timing, it's again a free meal ticket on the back of the current trend that is anti-terrorism and terrorist activities.
It's stinks of hasbro, and hasbro stinks.. simple as that.

I don't think hasbro would care who appears in the film as the chosen characters and we'll probably get something like a low par street fighter .. :rolleyes:

The fact they are calling the film GIJOE and then moving its operations into europe.. (yeah great move :o )
The fact that I heard destro & cobra commander are being merged as one bad guy called cobra. I love that...
The madness knows no boundaries.. they'll probably stamp the GIjoe logo on it and because there are hundreds of deluded, smacktards willing to pay to see it..
Thats really great... the movie will sell by the canyonload and then hasbro will release the movie figures based around a 25th style design.. wonderful hasbro wonderful.. I think the whole think stinks...
just I swear that I never meet a hasbro rep or person who makes the decisions.. :mad:

The movie doesn't interest me in the least. I couldn't care less what the plot is, or who stars in it. No way will I bother paying to see it. I'm already certain it will suck.
Most people know my opinion of the 25th stuff. As far as I'm concerned, Hasbro have killed the Joe line. I'm waiting for the announcement that the line has been cancelled any time now. And you know what, if the 25th stuff is the norm, I won't even miss it. Sad but true.

Honestly, don't expect much from a GIJoe movie. This isn't going to turn out like Blackhawk Down or Tears Of The Sun or any other serious soldier movie.

This is going to end up in the same category as Chuck Norris's Delta Force or Van Damme's Street Fighter in terms of military movies.

NAYSAYER!!! BLASPHEMER!!! We all KNOW GI Joe is GOD and everything Hasbro makes is cooler than MTV in the '80's.......

Whoa! What am I saying!! LOL!


Seriously, I agree with you 100%......with the War in Iraq becoming unpopular, these companies are shying away from war toys....it happens during every war since WWII!!! They are just looking for a way to drive the line to the bottom and cancel her! BLAH!!!

I hate what they do, and I hate what they have planned, but I remain hopeful that someone will infiltrate Hasbro and say..."uh, guys...if you wanna make money off this line....give people what THEY WANT...not what you and your marketing research companies that never play with toys tell you to make....has it worked for you so far???"

I hold hope that something will change, but for the most part, it's gotten awefully dark in the old joeverse!!

Don't give up the ship.
 

I'm not sure why everyone is so pessimistic about the movie. We really don't have much to go on right now. All we've got is a bunch of rumors. And we know some of those are false anyway.

No this won't be a real serious military movie. Its GI Joe. Come on. No
one is gonna make an R-rated movie based on a toyline. And I agree with that. I want to be able to take my son and my nephews to see it. Lets be realistic here.

Yes some of the early story lines may get re-written, but who cares. We already have cartoon and comic lines that don't completely agree. Some Joe fans are so obsessed with the comic story lines. GI Joe comic have been around in various formats for a long time, but even in it prime the comic audience was nothing compared to the number of kids who watched the cartoon. Hasbro produced figures, and then Larry Hama and others dreamed up story lines to sell figures. If Hasbro wants to make a movie and change some of the story so what. How many different Superman, Batman, Spiderman, X-men, Fantastic Four, Punisher, movies have been made. How many times have those stories been re-written.

From the rumors it sounds like the GI Joe team will be international. This seems to have annoyed people, but the GI Joe has always been international. GI Joe team members come from all over the world, and the settings for most of the cartoons and comics was international. People kind of freaked about the idea of the team being based in Brussels, but remember that NATO headquarters is in Brussels. Cobra is an international threat, so Brussels is the perfect place to headquarter a team tasked with fighting Cobra.

Hasbro has a bad reputation for screwing things up, but Hasbro is not making this movie. Sure they will have some input but they are not writing, directing, or producing it.

I'm not a Transformers fan, but the movie was really a pleasant surprise to me. It stayed true to the original concepts and ideas (if not the storyline -did Transformers comic have story lines?), and it was a pretty good movie. I'm expecting the same for the GI Joe movie.

I'm just hoping they have the common sense to leave out the lame ninja stoylines.

THANK YOU Uncle Flint!!!!!!

Stop p*$$ing on the movie BEFORE you have anything concrete to run with!!!!

'Transformers', ring any bells????

And now it's my turn to chime in. I'm all for doing a sci-fi action movie along the lines of Doom, just with Joes. :P Or Navy Seals.

I've just saw too many films screw things up. The X-Men Trilogy was pants.

The Star Wars prequels were pants...

And it's not just movies...

Look at Star Trek Enterprise... That festering bucket of crap completely rewrote Trek history as we knew it.

I'm just really really worried that Joe is about to go the same way...



See Frank, this is what is funny... Back in the 80's when the UK had soldiers abroad kicking @$$ in the Falklands and later in the Gulf, Action Force/Joe sold incredibly well here. Infact kids were actively encouraged to buy the line by their parents when we were at war!

It's amazing that the world has changed so much in 20 or so years.

I guess public opinion just isn't on Joe's side anymore. It makes me think that as a toy, Joe is doomed and us die hard collectors are pishing into the wind... Same with our hopes for the movie...

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I was pretty much in agreement until here, in particular the "did TF comic have storylines?" part -- the mythology established by the comics was even more rich and involved than GI Joe's! Especially when you look at Simon Furman's stuff; things that originated in the comics are still affecting the mythologies of modern incarnations of the brand!

I have mixed feelings towards the live-action movie. I got a bit annoyed by the Autobots being portrayed as giant mechanical clown-monkeys...

Movie News... Potential Spoiler...
 

The film might not crash and burn after all...

http://entertainment.aol.co.uk/sien...120070709990012

I hope it's true!

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I'll remain cautiously optimistic........as usual......... ;)

I'm assuming for Baroness then? With a dye-job? Otherwise I dunno -- Cover Girl? Quarrel...?

I see they're still going with the whole Belgium thing even though Hasbro shot that down...

Maybe she's Scarlett with red hair? That'd be interesting. Though I didn't know the guy who did the Mummy is working on this movie, perhaps it'll be light hearted like that movie was.

Destro head of Cobra mmmmm , i dont think so , well please do a decent job pleaseeeeeeee

She has been signed on as the Baroness.

At least we are not ripping our clothes with these news like in some of the previous rumors :p

I only hope they don't select really bad actors that make the film lower in quality (don't expect it be more than an entertainment product, so it can be very easily lowered in that matter).

Sienna Miller? Is she even respectable? I don't know, doesn't seem like a good idea. I'd rather an unknown come in.

Ok thats cool.
I just think they should shoot down Brussels ( Worst then the food :( )

Hasbro has stated that the team will be American and be based out of the Pitt so that's gotta be good news for some right? :D

What Dave posted could be considered the most current info and it CONTRADICTS Hasbro's statement of G.I. Joe vs G.I.J.O.E. I don't know. Maybe Hasbro and Hollywood are playing games just to get gossip up. They've done it before. Maybe GS is right. What we'll end up getting is something as gnarly as Transformers which means they'll utterly surprise us. But hey, I'm open to the concept of a global task force called GI Joe.

I'd think it was possible that whoever wrote the story just referred to the most recent movie info they had, which could have been the report from Variety or wherever that had the Brussels stuff. Since the open letter from Hasbro was more a toy community thing than a Hollywood press thing.

I'd thought that Hasbro had said the team itself would still be international, they'd just be based out of the Pit in the US...?

G.I.JOE movie cast
 

lets check
http://blog.abovetopsecret.com/umbr...l#comment-97138

thats the link , people what do u think about that movie cast

hey people check this link let me know what u think
http://blog.abovetopsecret.com/umbr...l#comment-97138

Cool! I think most of them would be great, except for Milla - Scarlett; I mean, in fact she would be great, but for some reason I can't see her as Scarlett, who's supposed to be a different kind of woman.

And Cobra Commander Willem Dafoe? PLEASE tell me who do I have to kill to make this real!!!! :D

nothing against Dafoe he's a great actor but for my money i would love to see Gary Oldman as Cobra Commander the guy is such a great actor that he could totally pull it off but that's just my two cents :p