Directing is Half the Battle
With the box-office success of “Transformers” turning heads of Hollywood executives everywhere and a “Voltron” movie rumbling about in the bowels of movie land, producers are certainly scouring the 1980s geek landscape to find more dormant franchises to cull from our childhoods for big screen adaptations. “G.I. Joe” was clearly the next biggest franchise to tap, so of course it’s getting worked on as we speak.
Latino Review, very dependable for geek-movie news breaks, is reporting that Stephen Sommers (director of “The Mummy” and “Van Helsing”) has been offered the helm for the film. Not confirmed as accepting the job, but it has been offered to him. Not great news for those hoping for a good adaptation of the license, particularly with rumors that both scripts that were written were bad, then combined to make a really bad script. I think it is safe to say that this wasn’t ever going to be “Hamlet,” but from the sounds of it this one is going to be classically bad.
movie, G.I. Joe
GI-JOE has the potenial to be suh-eet if done realisticly
If done realistically, isn't it just kind of Saving Private Ryan with silly nick-names? I want camp! CAAAAAAAAAMP.