Bosco685 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) Quote Although the Snake Eyes spin-off is next in line in the G.I. Joe franchise, Paramount is developing a new film centered on the world’s most elite secret operatives. Full Circle has exclusively learned plot details for the new G.I. Joe film, as well as who the studio is looking to lead the series. Paramount Pictures officially teased a new film in the franchise was in the works at Cinema Con 2019. The G.I. Joe pic will certainly take things in a very exciting direction. The story is set to revolve around G.I. Joe member Philip “Chuckles” Provost, an undercover specialist gone for years until he learns of a grave new threat. Provost tries to convince his bosses that twins Tomax and Xamot, who work for the villain organization COBRA, are after a mysterious device dubbed the “Wheel of Time”. It would allow the villains to travel into the future and obtain weapons capable of destroying the Joe’s once and for all. However, since his superiors don’t trust him, Provost forms his own squad composed of Helix, Wild Bill, Jinx, and Snake Eyes in order to reach the device before COBRA does. The studio is eyeing actors like Sebastian Stan, Tom Hiddleston and Alexander Skarsgard for the role of Provost. Edited April 8, 2019 by Bosco685 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theCapraAegagrus Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 Why..? The other GI Joe movies blew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn17 Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 I really, really want someone to do GI Joe justice. Make it a little more in line with the comics, but still keep the military aspect of it intact. I like the idea of a story starring Chuckles. One of the IDW books that spotlighted him was very well done. They should look at following the Mission Impossible framework, but with Joes instead. F For Fake 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComicConnoisseur Posted April 8, 2019 Share Posted April 8, 2019 (edited) 5 hours ago, TwoPiece said: Why..? The other GI Joe movies blew. That`s what they were saying a decade ago about the George Lucas Star Wars prequels. Now Star Wars is back on track. GI JOE is a huge ip. I think they will get it right this time. Edited April 8, 2019 by ComicConnoisseur Bosco685 and Capn17 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capn17 Posted April 9, 2019 Share Posted April 9, 2019 21 hours ago, ComicConnoisseur said: That`s what they were saying a decade ago about the George Lucas Star Wars prequels. Now Star Wars is back on track. GI JOE is a huge ip. I think they will get it right this time. I really hope so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F For Fake Posted April 10, 2019 Share Posted April 10, 2019 (edited) On 4/8/2019 at 1:39 PM, Bosco685 said: Wait, that's the plot of the comic Cobra: Last Laugh. Are they doing a straight adaptation? That would really be something, as that run of comics is remarkable. It's a straight up espionage/spy thriller where the characters just happen to be GI Joes. They even manage to make oddball goofy characters like Croc Master and Crystal Ball seem intimidating. It's pretty serious stuff. Although I loved the comics, I'd be very surprised to see them go with this take for a film, as it's definitely not geared towards kids.. Edited April 10, 2019 by F For Fake Bosco685 and Capn17 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted August 9, 2019 Author Share Posted August 9, 2019 Quote Six years have passed since the Real American Heroes known as G.I. Joe were on the big screen, but the wheels continue to spin. We’ve known that a Snake Eyes solo film has been on the table for a while, but now a new ensemble film is being developed in the franchise According to the Hollywood Reporter, Paramount and Hasbro have hired writers Josh Appelbaum and Andre Nemec (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol) to write a new G.I. Joe movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted May 1, 2020 Author Share Posted May 1, 2020 Quote Deadline has confirmed that Seberg writers Joe Shrapnel and Anna Waterhouse are writing a G.I. Joe universe sequel for Paramount which will further expand the IP, and build upon, upcoming spinoff Snake Eyes. That movie is due out on Oct. 23. G.I. and Transformers franchise producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is returning to produce with Hasbro’s division, Allspark Pictures. Crazy Rich Asians’ Henry Golding stars in the title role of Snake Eyes, a commando-ninja who was burnt in action (hence why he’s fully glad in black) and is left mute. He is the brother to the Cobra-serving ninja Storm Shadow, who is also his adversary. Robert Schwentke directs the spionoff to the $678M-global grossing franchise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted July 17, 2020 Author Share Posted July 17, 2020 Quote The next action figure from the new G.I. JOE Classified Series 6-inch line launches today, Friday, July 17 as part of Hasbro’s Pulse Fan First Fridays, Screen Rant can exclusively announce. This one features the iconic Snake Supreme Cobra Commander, a special, Pulse-exclusive figure available in September which joins the previously revealed standard Cobra Commander design also releasing in September. Both versions, and other awesome-looking action figures, come from the all-new G.I. JOE Classified Series of toys - a premium 6" line which matches and fits perfectly alongside our favorites from Hasbro's Star Wars Black Series and Marvel Legends lines, the best-in-class figures in the 6" range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted July 17, 2020 Share Posted July 17, 2020 Jump into the plastic crack thread. Mark was on another plane of existence today as he debuted the toys. The 'retro line' will repackage 3.75" figures made from 2007-2018 but on cards with vintage art. A lot of fans got butthurt over not seeing o-rings. O-Rings are outdated and inferior at this stage. They are up for preorder at 11 on Walmart.com Transformers had some nice reveals with pre-orders up at 11 across amazon, hasbro pulse and walmart. Mark during the Transformers with many people commenting about how out of it he was... bentbryan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollywood1892 Posted July 18, 2020 Share Posted July 18, 2020 Suprised it's taken so long...also that Channing never returned (probably confused alot of people) but when you have the Rock isn't it a guaranteed lock? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akaSteveRogers Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 On 4/8/2019 at 6:41 PM, ComicConnoisseur said: That`s what they were saying a decade ago about the George Lucas Star Wars prequels. Now Star Wars is back on track. GI JOE is a huge ip. I think they will get it right this time. Huge IP agreed. Legacy IPs such as these get 2nd, 3rd...10th chances. RE: Turtles, He-Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, and as you mentioned...Star Wars. Bosco685 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollywood1892 Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 7 hours ago, akaSteveRogers said: Huge IP agreed. Legacy IPs such as these get 2nd, 3rd...10th chances. RE: Turtles, He-Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, and as you mentioned...Star Wars. He-Man would be nice and maybe another Conan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 8 hours ago, akaSteveRogers said: Huge IP agreed. Legacy IPs such as these get 2nd, 3rd...10th chances. RE: Turtles, He-Man, Spider-Man, X-Men, and as you mentioned...Star Wars. There has been a lot of talk about the history of GI Joe and whether or not can even be accepted as a huge IP. Long story short it deals with the public perception of war. In 1969, Hasbro shifts GI Joe from a military them to an adventurer theme. The line would not resume itself as a military unit until it was reintroduced in 1982 with a very tight budget due to fears of the public's perception of welcoming a war toy into the home. Vietnam was still fresh in the minds of toy buying parents in the 1980's However, Reagan's presidency and the booming 80's have often been attributed toward the rebirth and success of GI Joe: A Real American Hero with a lot also to do with Larry Hama. GI Joe was fighting an enemy that was apolitical. They were fighting terrorism. Cobra was instantly branded a terrorist unit. Communism existed in the comics and the competition with the Soviet Oktober Guard was illustrated, however, even the Oktober Guard fought against Cobra to defeat terrorism. No one liked a terrorist. By 1994 though American interests shifted. The Boy's Toys aisles started shrinking while the video game and electronics era started expanding and Hasbro began to pump out Star Wars figures again in 1995. Hasbro tried to inject life in the line with Sgt Savage... which failed, and GI Joe Extreme... which failed. They took a break and started releasing ARAH line again as a TRU exclusive until it went TRU and Direct to Consumer from Hasbro's website until around 2005. Then around then they started getting bigger and smaller with Sigma Six 8" reintroducing the Adventure theme and 2.5"... The 25th Anniversary set was supposed to be a one off until Hasbro saw a demand for modern articulation classic size GI Joe figures. From 2007 through 2018 we received somewhat of a GI Joe line that always seemed on the teeter totter of slipping away. The movies did not do the lines any good. The GI Joe franchise is one of the few instances where the sequel is better than the original and the sequel really wasn't that 'great'. A lot of Joe collectors believe that contrary to the reaction to war in the Gulf during the 90's, that the Post 9/11 wars did actually hurt the concept of GI Joe rather than help it. Parents went back to the Post Vietnam era of their view of GI Joe and given the choice between reaching for a Transformer, Star Wars figure, Superhero figure or a Lego set, video game or anything else to put in their shopping cart instead of GI Joe, they chose something else. The problem is that GI Joe has always been perceived as a military / war toy. Do parents want their kids playing with war toys? If your answer is 'no', then GI Joe needs to be marketed toward adult collectors. If you want to market the line toward kids then you have to try what they are doing now and throw in sci fi guns, ninjas, guys in metal masks and things like that. That's why the 6" probably introduced Destro and ninjas first rather than Cobra Commander and Cobra troopers and why Roadblock is carrying what looks like a lightening pitchfork gun. In today's day and age, GI Joe is not the easiest brand to market unless you have a distinct and clear vision with media support. DTM700 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DTM700 Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 7 minutes ago, Buzzetta said: The problem is that GI Joe has always been perceived as a military / war toy. Do parents want their kids playing with war toys? If your answer is 'no', then GI Joe needs to be marketed toward adult collectors. If you want to market the line toward kids then you have to try what they are doing now and throw in sci fi guns, ninjas, guys in metal masks and things like that. This is a very good sentiment. With all that is going on in the world today, especially in the US regarding police brutality, it will be harder and harder to market army/military toys to children. Some parents may associate Joes with war/violence. I think there will always be some market for glorified army/military cinema, but would not be surprised if Joe collectibles are aimed towards adults rather than kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted July 19, 2020 Share Posted July 19, 2020 1 hour ago, DTM700 said: This is a very good sentiment. With all that is going on in the world today, especially in the US regarding police brutality, it will be harder and harder to market army/military toys to children. Some parents may associate Joes with war/violence. I think there will always be some market for glorified army/military cinema, but would not be surprised if Joe collectibles are aimed towards adults rather than kids. That's where it gets complicated since Hasbro kind of already tried that. GI Joe disappeared from Toys R Us in 2016. That was the last year they saw a mass retail albeit limited release with the continuation of the 50th Anniversary Collection. At this time, Hasbro had trademarked the name "Hascon" and was ending the license extended to the GI Joe Collector Club. The intention was to bring GI Joe completely home and create a shared universe with Transformers, GI Joe, Rom the Space Knight, Micronauts and M.A.S.K. As you can see, not much has occurred with that shared universe. So at the 11th hour, Hasbro renewed the club license allowing the club to continue using Hasbro's library of parts and to allow the club to create and produce 3 3/4" figures that Hasbro did not think would sell at the retail level and offer them to adults through the club membership. This went on for another two years until 2018. The issue with that was a single carded figure cost $35 after tax. What adult was going to pay $35 a figure? (Buzzetta slowly raises his hand - Hey, it was the only way to get figures like Frostbite, and a proper Hit&Run) The following is not fact but my personal opinion. I personally believe that Hasbro made the decision to switch to 6" figures back in 2016 and allowed the club to continue for two years to continue testing the adult collector market while they see what they want to do with the line. The club officially closed up shop after shipping their final 12 figures in 2019 and have lost the domain to their website. What currently confuses me about the line is the big deal they are trying to make of the 'retro' line. I am fine without classic o-rings. The design was brittle and flawed and placed too much pressure on the joints which is why all the MOC Vintage collectors are ... and I mean this... watching their figures crack and shatter while sealed on a card. However, when they relaunched the figures in 2007 with modern designs they put them on REAL retro cards that were of the same size and bubble size as the vintage figures. The retro line as it is being introduced looks very 'off' as there are no borders around the card art and the bubbles are oversized. 2020 Snake Eyes Card Art 2007 Snake Eyes Card Art 1982 Snake Eyes Card Art BTW... pick up the retro figure and open it. That is a mini sideshow figure you are getting and prior to this release was a very sought after figure commanding up to $50 each. However if you have the means seek out the original release on that figure because it came with the 'commando' head as well as the 'knight visor' head that is on the 2020 release. Hasbro should have put on the right head for the 2020 release to at least match the card art. This is why GI Joe collectors shake their heads as Hasbro always seems to come up short. bentbryan 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bosco685 Posted May 2, 2023 Author Share Posted May 2, 2023 Quote While speaking with Collider about Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, di Bonaventura opened up about the state of the G.I. Joe film franchise. The franchise has had a rumored film in the works for some time, G.I. Joe: Ever Vigilant. However, the producer now says another movie in the franchise is finally gaining traction. Whether the film being developed is G.I. Joe: Ever Vigilant is unknown, but the producer looks hopeful about bringing the franchise back to the big screen: "We actually developed a pilot with Amazon. This was before Paramount+, just as Paramount+ was coming in. It didn't pan out. We are in a lot of conversations about what to do with it as a film, and so I would have to say, most likely you're going to see that come to fruition. How soon is always impossible to say. For a long time, there were no active conversations. There's a lot going on right now." bentbryan, kimik and F For Fake 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 On 4/9/2019 at 3:49 AM, theCapraAegagrus said: Why..? The other GI Joe movies blew. Retaliation was good, BUT you had to watch the Director's Cut, which stupidly was exclusive to an American retailer called Best Buy. How ridiculous is that, making the only watchable version of a film exclusive to a single retailer? Anyway, that version is okay. Only thing is, I don't think most people are aware of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F For Fake Posted May 4, 2023 Share Posted May 4, 2023 On 5/2/2023 at 6:03 AM, Bosco685 said: I must have missed the news that the Amazon show was scuttled, I still assumed it was happening. After three swings and three misses, I'd be fine with GI Joe being left alone for quite some time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buzzetta Posted May 5, 2023 Share Posted May 5, 2023 I’ve said it multiple times. If you want to bring in GI Joe then introduce them in the context of a specialized unit piggybacked on a Transformers movie. Sector 7 could have been GI Joe. The Joe team responds to the threat of the Transformers and at the end of the movie Optimus Prime assures the Joes that they will handle the Decepticons as they feel responsible and the Joes can concentrate on a new global threat with the image of a cobra appearing on the computer screen. The Joes have their adventures. The Transformers have theirs. The govt takes inspiration from the Transformers and Matt Trakker develops technology called MASK to combat other threats. Everything can cross pollinate once in awhile like the Avengers if you want. it’s not as hard to manage the properties as they make it to be. october, media_junkie and Capn17 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
