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LittleE · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 3:52 am Post subject: Should the Movie be about...

Which era of GI Joe should the movie be about?
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M6D · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject:

Not sure if this has been posted anywhere or not but according to the information on IMDBPro the Source Material is listed as the comic book.

Jmacq1 · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject:

Doesn't that come from a statement made by a Hasbro rep before they actually hired their director and scriptwriter, though?

In other words, before we heard the inklings of the "Brussels G.I.J.O.E." pitch that Sommers supposedly made? Supposedly they've gotten away from Brussels, but I'd say the movie being based on the comics is just as much unsubstantiated rumor as everything else we've heard at this point.

M6D · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:09 pm Post subject:

Just reporting what's listed on IMDBPro's G.I.Joe page (as nothing is listed on the regular site).

Caravankidd · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 2:35 pm Post subject:

The movie should be about........two hours.

Sorry couldn't resist. Got my hopes on the comic book being the source. The cartoons were fun and I've watched them plenty of times, but the story telling was just bigger in the comic books so I've got my hopes on the director being able to bring back the summer action film that is also filled with character and not just special effects.
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Compulsive Collector · Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 6:55 pm Post subject:

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M6D · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:59 am Post subject:

While Sommers will have a degree of creative control, he'll be low man on the totem poll when it comes to the final say. As producer, Di Bonaventura will have final say over Sommers and will make the decisions in the best interests of his company and Paramount. If he doesn't like Sommer's direction, he will change it. Also since the property is optioned and not a full sale of rights, and with Hasbro being Hasbro, I highly doubt they would enter into optioning the rights to Di Bonaventura's production company without some form of creative control in protecting their property.

desertrat · Corporal Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 80

They should leave those transformers out ofthe picture.
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Tambo · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:09 am Post subject:

The first 50 or so issues of the comic book......nothing more and nothing less.

mr. peasant · Corporal Joined: 11 Apr 2006 Posts: 114

I think you forgot one option, which is 'a completely new canon'. This is probably what we're going to get, and I must say that that's actually the right way to go. As much as we all liked the previous incarnations, they all aren't exactly perfectly suitable for the big screen.

Like Transformers, there should be a few similarities and nods to the various incarnations of G.I. Joe (e.g. the Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow rivalry, etc) but will ultimately create its own continuity and universe separate from the other ones.

Compulsive Collector · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:15 pm Post subject:

Caravankidd · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 2:32 pm Post subject:

Jmacq1 · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 3:54 pm Post subject:

M6D · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject:

What does "How Michael Bay directed Transformers" have to do with "How Steven Sommers may direct GIJoe?"