It seems that the sequel to last year's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra can expect the return of its predecessor's director. After his involvement was generally doubted for a time, TheWrap is reporting that Stephen Sommers will indeed return to direct the follow-up to the 2009 film. While the film is still in developmental stages, it is already likely a lock for Rise of Cobra star Channing Tatum to reprise his role as Capt. Duke Hauser Duke. (Sorry, I couldn't do it.) However, don't expect the film to simply be the same old gang getting back together. As some may recall from earlier this year, a shake-up in the writing team has brought the sribes of Zombieland (and the upcoming Deadpool) Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to hopefully tighten up the storyline (borrowing some vocabulary from Westwood College Online.)
Sommers, known from blockbusters such as Deep Rising, Van Helsing, and The Mummy films, brought big-budget Hollywood experience to the table, resulting in a flashy, CGI-stylized interpretation of Hasbro Toys' 1980's interpretation of the classic G.I. Joe brand. The results, however, brought a mixed bag of criticism due to its more than loose adherence to the source material and a derivative style-over-substance plot. That, hopefully, will be an issue that the team of Reese and Wernick can remedy with their script. As they explained back in February:
“We’re excited,” explained Wernick. “Rhett was such a huge ‘G.I. Joe’ fan growing up, as was I." Adding: “We can say that we will be faithful to the first film,” Reese explained of their plans for the sequel. “We will not be ignoring events from the first in the second.”
While the team will have to walk a line between ensuring that they produce a script that's a proper sequel to the 2009 film, it was also abundantly clear from comments like the one above, that they were not complete laymen to the canon of the A Real American Hero storyline on which it was based. What that will hopefully mean, is that director Stephen Sommers will have a script in his hand which will at least be grounded in a version of the "Joes vs. Cobra" dynamic that's close in spirit to the one that captured the imagination of millions back in the day. What he'll do with it, is another question.
We were always getting this sequel, whether we liked it or not. So, what do you think about Stephen Sommers returning for G.I. Joe 2? Can a writing shake-up fix things?
Source: TheWrap
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rodwoo
R U kidding me?! It was a horrible movie! I actually loved Stephen Sommers Deep Rising. It was a cool, fun film. I really enjoyed The Mummy and even the Mummy Returns. Then, they made the third Mummy movie without Stephen Sommers directing and it sucked! GI Joe was so bad on so many levels! Stephen, go back and make another interesting, fun film like Deep Rising. It would at least be sincere!
whatever007
Maybe...just maybe...maybe.. maybe ... maybe... there's always and outside chance... it won't totally licks balls!!
GreatGreenWhiteGuy
The script for this thing already leaked, you can find it here:
http://www.box.net/shared/bg 7tuz61mg
kickliquid
Gi Joe: Rise of Cobra was worse than a Bag of Dicks
Adiorocks949
Great! Another bad Hasbro movie. Transformers 2 and G.I Joe were the disasters of the summer. At least Transformers 2 was bad but some what enjoyable. There were no redeemable qualities for G.I Joe.
Schwab17
sweet loved the first one hope they make this one better though.
macross2012
ARE YOU KIDDING ME. PLEASE STOP GIVING THIS MOVIE MONEY! The first film was HORRIBLE. If it wasnt for the baroness being in 90% of the movie I would have thrown up.
BONERJAM
Sweet! We can expect another terrible movie.
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