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Who Joins Joe!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here. The headline is not a question. Who has joined the cast of GI JOE... But don't call him Who... he didn't spend 8 years in medical school to be called just Who. Dr. Who's Chris Eccleston has stepped into the role of Destro as David Murray steps out.
I'm not well-versed in DR. WHO, but I do love Eccleston's work, especially on HEROES and in 28 DAYS LATER and THE OTHERS. One of these days I'm going to have to delve into the WHO world... for now, we can look forward to his villainous shenanigans in Stephen Sommers' GI JOE. Thoughts?
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Never thought I'd see the day.
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i wasnt ever a fan of the cartoon series, although i still have my gi-joes (the big ones) from when i was a kid....eccleston makes a great villian, as long as they let him use his accent...and what the fuck is your problem quint...get your ass to stage 6 and watch the eccleston whos....now that is great tv
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Damn, I never get close to first
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Damn it
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...It's the Doctor, damnit. THE DOCTOR.
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a question mark. DAMMIT! And I prefer to call him Dr. Whom, thanks.
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What is this crap? I always thought Harry was a "blue collar" movie reviewer, but I've been reading some stuff online tonight that changed my opinion.
Went to youtube and entered his name, this is like the third video that came up:
What the hell is this?
If Harry reads this, bro, I won't make fun of your weight, I'm a chill guy. But, please for yourself and I think engaged or married right? change your lifestyle and eating/drinking habits for your family. You don't need to have six-pack abs, but seriously bro, you need to get out of a wheelchair. There are long term healthy lifestyle choices you can make without crash dieting and in a year you can get down to 240-260 and walk by yourself.
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B.A.T soldiers are cobra's strength. I would like to see them takle the concept of terrorists having the ability to endlessly produce a robot soldier army larger than any other nation's army.
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He's in it for like 10 minutes. but yeah, LOVE his freakin work in it...
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...until I see how well Chris's acting comes through the make-up the role requires.
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Has anyone seen the Transformers episode where a villain who sounds suspiciously like Cobra Commander turns a bunch of the Transformers into humans and then at the end he yells out "Cobra!!!!" It was the greatest.
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but maybe... just maybe, it might be kickass!..probably not, but i'm hoping
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not Eccelston. Check your own linked source. Spelling matters.
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If this flick doesn't have any porkchop sandwiches in it it'll totally suck. Well, even more than it's already going to suck. Just seeing the names attached so far is enough to know that I won't ever see this, and knowing is half the battle.
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Where's some Transformers news?
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I always thought someone like Lawrence Fishburne would be the one to play Destro. I mean he has the deep voice, looks like Destro when he's bald - Morpheus. All they'd have to do is add a chrome prosthetic and you'd have Destro. But they decided to go with a white, English actor instead? What?!?
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to bad your ass got saaaaaaaaaaaaaaacked...
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appearing in this crap? I mean the guy is one of the greatest actors of his generation and he's now working with Stephen Sommers?!
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Get it right!!!
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You cannot tell me he is involved in this for artistic satisfaction.
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with that accent. It's too bad. Destro should be played by someone with more temblor in his voice. It's too bad Sticky Fingaz didn't take acting classes.
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Get it right!!!
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It's because he isn't picky (despite what he makes out)- remember him as the (lame) villain in Gone in 60 Seconds?
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Great Britain = England, Scotland, Wales. The United Kingdom adds Northern Ireland and a few islands (Isle of Man, Channels etc)
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Best line from A life less ordinary. And it always makes me laugh.
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That could be a good name for a character. His backstory would be something like he was a Catholic priest who just loved diddling kiddies until Cobra enlisted them for their Global Molestation Initiative. (The secret double whammy coming when we all find out that Cobra is actually a front organization financed by the US Govt as a way to justify the insane budget for the endless fake war fought by the GI JOE corps. Any similarities to ongoing events taking place in real life right now is wholly coincidental. )
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did anyone else see the BBC4 world cinema awards? Where Eccleston is praising the actor who played the Spanish General guy in Pans Labrynth at says, and I quote 'thats why I don't play villains, I just can't do it.' Nice one Eccelston you tit. This film will be a piece of shit anyway, but there you go, straight from the horses mouth.
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who was the asshole military leader in 28 Days Later I can see this working out nicely.
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Dr. Who.
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That's one thing that pisses me off about the new Dr Who!! Where is the damned question mark? His name isn't Who...the title is supposed to be a question as no-one knows The Doctors name!! For years in the UK it was called "Dr Who?" RTD needs a kick in the balls!!
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check out his interviews before playing the Doctor. He spouted some of the most pretentious drivel I've ever read.
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Destro was black dammit! At least he was in the comics. But the invisible guy from Heroes looks pretty bad-ass so i can let it slide.
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No. No it wasn't.
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No. No he didn't.
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Let's see...The world's longest-running science-fiction series or a film adaptation of an '80s animated series based on a line of action figures.
Jesus, Chris, at least David Tennant appeared in a Harry Potter film...
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Please, for the love of all that is holy and sacred, cast him.
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I feel bad for anyone cast in this.
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You can make it, but we ain't buying UN JOE. See you in the "Direct to DVD" file.
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When he left the show, it went seriously down-hill. Now the Doctor is a fucking pretty boy with converse! They just take the piss out of themselves far too much and have lost sight of what used to make Who great. And it's a shame because I want to like Tenant, but I'll always remember him as the guy who fucked up a great character. Come back Eccleston!
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was a black guy with a metal heard... did nobody tell the casting director that?
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what's next? the damn snorkels?
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mark my words. Tho' that ain't going to be a surprise to anyone based on what we've heard about this movie so far.
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Destro was *NOT* a black guy with a metal head, he was a Scottish white guy who wore a metal helmet that was passed down from earlier generations of his family. Sure, he may have been voiced by a black guy in the cartoon series, just like Darth Vader was voiced by a black guy, his character is actually white. So the casting director has got it right and you need to go and read some GI Joe and get your facts right. End of rant.
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he's way too soft spoken. need someone slightly scary...not slightly gay.
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interesting casting with this one...but god this will be a shallow wreck. the vietnam vet angle, snake eyes /storm shadow old school characters plots would make an amazing film. this sound like it'll be some re-invented train wreck.
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too bad it'll end up being Carrot Top
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"for now, we can look forward to his villainous shenanigans in Stephen Sommers' GI JOE."..... Not with Sommers in charge. The man is a living, breathing insult to good film.
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Also, where the hell were you when Chris Latta was voicing C.C. & Starscream? Those characters definitely sounded "slightly gay".
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Feb 12, 2008 11:08:55 AM CST
LordPorkington's right about Destro, but who cares re: color
by finky089
if he's a black guy or a hispanic guy or red-headed cross-eyed half-Inuit. He'll be wearing a mask. ANd even if the mask comes off at some point- still, who cares as long as the actor can accurately portray the "spirit" of the character. Something NOT liekly to happen so much with - say- Wayans as Ripcord. But, whatever. This movie sounds terrible beyond redemption so far.
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been reading, but Destro was white as a ghost. First, he's Scottish. Scottish going back centuries. The dude is lilly white. In one issue of Joe, I'll have to dig through my closet to find the number, Baroness is consider leaving the whole Cobra/terrorist/military thing behind. Destro said he would give it all up for her. He takes off the mask, you see his face for the first time, and they kiss. Now I don't know if in the newer issues of Joe, the non-Marvel ones after the first series, they retconned the character, but he's as white as they come.
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Feb 12, 2008 11:13:00 AM CST
Jim Carrey as Barbecue a la Fire Marshall Bill
by grammaton cleric binks
Search your feelings, you know this to be true.
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The GI Joe episode that got "political"? Some reporters were hassling GI Joe about how expensive the Joe program was, and about how Cobra didn't really exist, in an effort to get GI Joe shut down, but then, it turned out the reporters were all Cobra agents in disguise! Just goes to show you: whenever somebody criticizes ridiculous military spending, they are probably just the Baroness in rubber mask trying to trick you.
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The anchor's name was Hector Ramirez, a thinly veiled spoof of Geraldo. But, if I recall, he was real, and all his co-workers/crew were Cobra agents. It's scary how much minutia is stuck in my head.
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Now that I think of it, there were a whole slew of episodes where Cobra pretended to be somebody else so they could shut down GI Joe for budgetary reasons. Like that "watchdog" episode, I think.
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Sounds cooler and cooler to me. Now toss out the juvinile cast and you're on the right way!
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...he's not exactly buff. He's also not Scottish. The story behind Destro's mask was that it was handed down in the family and his ancestor had earned it by having backed the wrong side in the "English Civil War" and provoked the wrath of Oliver Cromwell himself. The mask was meant as punishment. That's from what I remember without hitting up Wikipedia. Then there's Destro's Illuminati-esque cult that has that octopus creature underneath the family castle. But I digress.
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I'm fine with the talent...Eccleston is a fantastic actor...who can no doubt affect a slight Scottish in old Chrome Head...but either the costume designer will have to be creative...or Chris will have to undergo a massive work-out schedule. Since I seriously doubt that...I vote for dramatic costume.
Still I'm going to miss that huge buff guy in the silver mask with exposed cut chest and red medallion.
Egads! Did that sound gay!
At least we don't have a shirtless buff bald guy in a cape and monicle...
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You guys remember the episode where I think Zartan and his merry band of assholes pretended to be a rock band called "Cold Slither" in order to either ruin GI Joe or recruit their fans to the dark side?
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cause, that would be BAD!! RIGHT?!!!
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Anyway, I had to scribble out a humorous comic where Doctor Who thinks that Destro is a Cyber Man and tries to hold him back with a gold bar. Destro thusly 'yoinks' the gold bar out of his hand. Dammit, I wish I had a scanner for moments like these...
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Keeping it all in the family. Crocmaster was buff, but I can see a beergutted Cousin Eddie type working out as well. Never been able to figure out what happened in the Quaid gene pool. Dennis is in his fifties, and totally buff and handsome. Randy, well he's a great actor, but uh....
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anyone remember the episode where GI Joe were in a frenzy over a supposed terrorist known as the "Viper," who turned out to be a (German?) window wiper... who pronounced his w's as v's. "i am the viper... i vish to vash your vindows." even as a kid i thought that was the lamest plot ever.
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Truth is the cartoon, was okay, with a good plot once in a while. The comic was great with stupid plots every once in a while.
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one remember the episode where CC calls Zartan who tells CC the Dreadnoks are occupied in political debate. Pan to a melee where they are debating whether the term is "breath mint" or "candy mint" including an instance of one of them dragging an alligator from the swamp, and throwing it at their opponent. Must've learned that move from Croc Master.
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Isn't Destro supposed to be a big burly guy? How did they cast the tall lanky Eccleston in the role?
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Um, wearing a black uniform does not actually make somebody black...
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The Cobra Commander idea would be badass, but since he's always portrayed as a clown in the cartoons they'll probably give the role to Andy Dick or something...
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will he bow out of the sequel clause due to fears of being type cast in Hollywood as a guy with a chrome head? And who are they going to get to play the Body Massage guy?
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sorry... that's who zartan always reminded me of as a kid. well if not him, get stallone.
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Bob Sapp is the body massage machine.
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Angelina Jolie in the role of the Baroness. i swear, if she's in ONE more movie with that damned 'accent' of hers... yes, i'm looking at YOU Alexander and Beowulf.
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If Angelina was in every movie, I'd go to the theater more often.
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I could've sworn the role was going to Sienna Miller or some such shit. Personally, I'd give it to Katja Kassin. And by give it to her, I mean I'd totally have sex with her.
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Well, as long as the movie was Angelina Jolie Loves Brianna Banks or Anal Assault 73 or something.
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Hey, he doesn't talk much.
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i was in the middle of drinking coffee when i read that and i spit it all over my monitor... hahaha, thank you.
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You do know that I'm not going to buy you a new monitor, right?
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Not to sound racist but Destro has the look of a black man, he talks like an educated black man, he even has a diabolical black man laugh. He says the word "chaos" like a black man. If it looks like a black man and talks like a black man, guess what?
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Now with the strike over, Larry Hama can make some alterations to the script, he invented the characters, so whatever happens will be the new canon.
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the references to dr who cares? continue...im sure he'd rather be associated with heroes first and foremost...ive watched ecclestons who, it sucked for the most part, the dialogue and especially the special effects...if i had to choose which cyborg race was more scarier, the borg would easily beat the daleks or whatever theyre called, they look like rejects from a star wars movie....as for the movie sucking, the new script has been reviewed at latinoreview and the guy gave it an A+ and that its loyal and faithful to the original material and will not be an acronym and will blow us away....and lastly of course theres the one or two fanboys that want some intelligence or something to this movie..i want a summer popcorn movie, not a movie thats massaging the balls of all u 'tards that check for inconsistencies in dialogue and such, and are any of u happy with any director ?? im sure if michael bay was directing it u would all be unhappy too.....i wish someone would say who they prefer as opposed to "he sucks" "any movie he makes is garbabe" ...but then again im dealing with kids that cant stop jerkin off and smokin pot in mommys basement to get a job and stop posting on the internet all day...what should i expect right
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Nothing, I tells ya! And if you look at a Destro figure or the comics, you'll see that Destro's chest is white. Unless Destro suffers from vitiligo like Michael Jefferson, he is absolutley 100 per cent not black.
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Absolutely!
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You Dolts!!!!!!
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Feb 12, 2008 4:21:04 PM CST
Cartoon blew chunks and I could give a rats ass about Nationalis
by monkey_king
so long as the film is cast right and it stays true to the Hama and Devils Due mythos. Destro was Scottish, yes. Scotland is part of the U.K., but doesn't make it all British. Too bad Gerard Butler wasn't cast as Destro, he'd be perfect(voice and body). Now, if only the filmmakers would drop this "Rex" nonsense and make Cobra Commander a bad-ass world terrorist with ties to Snake-Eyes and Zartan, this film will rock.
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Sienna Miller should be cast in some other role. Bellucci has the looks and the accent appropriate of the character in question. Damn, would she look good in that outfit.
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then again, I'd watch Bellucci in just about anything...or in nothing at all for that matter
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this movie just sounds fucking atrocious. I loved the Prequels and have never been one of those "raped my childhood" guys, but this movie is really raping my ass good. now I know how my Transformers-loving buddy felt about a year ago...
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I don't get it. Is he not available. I like Eccleston and all but this just seems obvious.
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Feb 12, 2008 6:50:15 PM CST
Stereotypical Evil Archer, that's good news, but
by grammaton cleric binks
old news. If they follow his advice though, the movie has a shot at being great.
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he's also been in some turkeys. It's not that he's a bad actor. Quite the contrary, he's great. However, he has made some questionable movie choices, and probably isn't interested in this type of movie again.
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It's spelled as above. Glad to hear Vin Diesel is finally getting to play the role he was born for.
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I could care less about this piece of crap. From the casting of that kid from Step Up as Duke for God sakes! To Marlon Freaking Wayans and no Roadblock. This movie will be a bigger piece of crap than Michael Bay's butt raping of Transformers.
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was cast as a minor character for G.I. Joe. Just saying
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Nick Cannon going to get casted as Sgt. Slaughter, man that shit is going to be hella tight with him and the wrongly casted not Major Payne nor Most Wanted Wayans brother busting jokes.
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erm, yes he did. It was a load of bollocks about trying to capture the intrinsic loneliness of the Doctor's soul. It was really cringeworthy stuff.
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Yes, yes it was you idiot!! "Dr Who?" (with question mark) was the title of the series in the UK since it's first black & White episodes. Only truly stupid people think The Doctors name is Who. The title refers to the mystery surrounding his name...hence the title is a question.
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He is WHITE!!! Don't any of you know how to use google? Don't any of you own the figure? If he is black then he is the palest black guy since Micheal Jackson!!
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Well atleast in the Devil's Due GIJ comic. He was revealed to be the bastard child of (the orginal) James McCullen Destro. ergo Destro Jr. If anyone could play the Baroness it's definatly Monica. I vote Russel Crowe for Zartan and Daniel Day Lewis would make a great Dr.Mindbender (especially after watching his performance in TWBB.)
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any non-Marvel comic version is non-canon. He was white in that one. Question on Devil's Due to show you how long it's been since I visited comic book guy, is that an issue, or an actual independent comic company. I forget who did a version of Joe after Marvel. If they made Destro black they seriously screwed up. I could care less if he's black, white, or orange, but they gotta be consistent with Marvel canon.
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The Devil's Due/Image comic is somewhat canon to Marvel as it is a continuation of the series.Even Joe creator Larry [Hama] had written a few issues for one of the Joe spinoff titles.Me personally, there is only ONE destro,his son was mainly used as a plot device for added suspense during the 4 issues of the 2001 miniseries. So now you know, and knowing is...ah fuck it.
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had Destro as black, but it is not the same Destro as in the Marvel version, but his son. Did I get that right? One of the best Destro issues was the one where he came back to his castle only to find an impostor Destro there. His guards kept it simple. The one who beats the other in fisticuffs is the real Destro. Of course real Destro won, and the phony turned out to be Bludd.
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...so he can do some of the interesting theatre he's been talking about or to go off and do some more challenging indy movies, then fair enough. Expectations some of you have for a GI Joe movie are fuckin' laughable.
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Since he's an evil criminal he's gotta be a black man, right? One only needs to take a quick look at Destro to see what facial feature makes you all subconciously think he's black. racist motherfuckers! www.cracked.com/jp/destro3.jpg
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If you look at any full body shots of Destro you can clearly see exposed white skin under the zipped open part of his jacket, despite his big lips, penchant for stealing things and dodging his phone bill.
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looks a lot like him. Just shave his head, and paint his face silver. By the way, the voice actor was of course black.
http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images/view?back=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fei%3DUTF-8%26p%3DArthur%2520Burghardt%26fr2%3Dtab-web%26fr%3Dyfp-t-501&w=132&h=162&imgurl=www.joeheadquarters.com%2Fvo%2Fburghardt.jpg&rurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.joeheadquarters.com%2Fvo%2Findex.shtml&size=11.7kB&name=burghardt.jpg&p=Arthur+Burghardt&type=jpeg&no=3&tt=23&oid=0f4180c71a4d2716&ei=UTF-8
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in the comic, Marvel used to have commercials for them. (Bill was probably footed by Hasbro). They didn't do it much beyond issue 14 I want to say. Anyway, the guy in the commercial had a so-so voice. It was okay. Then the cartoon came up with Arthur Burghardt, and they nailed it.
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Michael Bell, who like Frank Welker has done everything under the sun in voiceovers was Duke. Well, it appears he was also the voice behind the talking tub of Parkay maragrine.
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CE needs to go back and put some spice in heroes. I really got to like CE as Claude.
I just hope this movie does not turn out to be another F4.
Season 3 of Doctor Who stunk, except for a few episodes. DT is ok, but I am ready for a new Doctor. Get that guy from Jeykll.
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