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So now you know...and knowing is half the battle.

Maybe if "Action Man" and "Cool Dude" stop fighting for a second and pitch Mountian Dew to me while dancing and jerking off the Mountain Dew bot from Transformers while it squirts lime colored robot semen allover a GM truck while a pricetag pops up to inform Gm is having a sale....

Nope. Still not as bad.

I'm open to the idea even though I'm not a fan of Sommers' "Mummy" movies.

As many people here, I hold G.I. Joe close to my heart, moreso than Transformers. And I'll say this... I'm pretty much 100% sure you'll f*** this one up.

But it's simple, just do a direct adaptation as far as the general storyline goes: G. I. Joe is the code name for America's daring, highly trained special mission force. Its purpose, to defend human freedom against Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world. THAT'S ALL YOU NEED. Respect the original concept at least. Transformers, while many loathed it, at least stuck to the damn original concept. Autobots vs. Decepticons battling on the planet Earth with Optimus Prime and Megatron leading each group (yeah, I know Megatron came in late, but you get my point).

I'm all for new character design updates, BUT only when needed. The reason for those characters to have different looking field uniforms is because each of these characters is a special forces operative with their own skills that they bring to the table.

Also, you can play the G.I. Joe vs. Cobra battles pretty straight forward with badass action.

There's also plenty of room for character depth and plot. But keep it simple.

And Snake Eyes is your Wolverine character. Yeah, he can't talk, but a creative writer and director should be able to play up on the mystique of that. And if anyone thinks his black quasi-ninja uniform wouldn't play on the big screen? Go back and watch Val Kilmer's movie "The Saint" and you'll see a perfect representation of how to do it.

THIS IS WHERE YOU GUYS ARE FUCKING THIS UP: Do NOT put any type of focus on the 60s era representation of G.I. Joe, which was basically Barbie for boys. Not knocking it, just saying that the 60s version was all about one soldier in many different outfits. The 80s era G.I. Joe is the true pop icon that the most demographics will identify with. Don't mess with that! I say this because for so long Mark Wahlberg has been "rumored" to be the top candidate for the "title role". THERE IS NO TITLE ROLE IN G.I. JOE. At least not the one that has the more source material to adapt.

IF you do a very close and direct adaptation from the comics and cartoon, and inject a bit more badass military realism, then we could have something great.

But at this point you're making it a damn buddy flick with some international toy that the American public knows nothing of called Action Man????

Again, sure, they changed some Transformers elements, but at least they stayed true to the original concept.

Here's why you guys are doing this: You fear that international box office numbers would be hurting because G.I. Joe is an American symbol of war domination... and everyone isn't too happy with America these days (at least the cowboy attitude of our "leaders"). So YOU add in "Action Man", an international counterpart of sorts to up that international box office take.

However, what YOU are really doing is cutting away a majority of G.I. Joe fans who want to see the adaptation of the source material that they grew up with... or at least are familiar with.

STOP THE MADNESS!!! Seriously, Skip Woods' early draft had the villian be a guy called COOL DUDE (go to latinoreview.com for the script review).

It's so simple. And we all know reps of Paramount, Lorenzo, Skip, etc. are reading this. THEY ARE. It's different than the Transformers battle because it was so late in the game when the early Transformers script came out. They were well under way. BUT HERE WITH G.I. JOE, it's early in the game. So AICN readers and G.I. JOE fans alike should send a clear message. ADAPT FROM THE SOURCE MATERIAL OF THE 80s. THE COMICS AND CARTOON. I understand some changes will need to be made, but again, it's this simple concept: "G. I. Joe is the code name for America's daring, highly trained special mission force. Its purpose, to defend human freedom against Cobra, a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world."

Introducing these characters is easy. Cobra starts wreaking havoc around the world. The military is failing. So America starts to recruit the BEST OF THE BEST in the special forces for an elite team. Main characters can be Duke, Flint, etc. and of course Snake Eyes as your "Wolverine" loner. Duke and Flint recruit the team. The team meets up at the new high tech base (Joe headquarters). That's your first frickin act. 30 pages. From then on it's Joe vs. Cobra. SIMPLE SHIT.

If you go with a Duke and "Action Man" angle, and intro Cobra only in the last few minutes (as Skip Woods' script currently does), then you are alienating the fanbase of not just fanboys, but a whole generation who grew up with the toys, comics, and cartoons.

This is VERY different from the Transformers fiasco, which proved to be a success. So don't shrug any complaints off by saying, "Hey, they complained about Transformers and look what happened." Bay and co. at least stayed true to the original concept. Thus far, YOU GUYS are fucking with that.

Watch the damn cartoons, read the damn comics, and see what WILL MAKE YOUR MOVIE MUCH MORE OF A SUCCESS.

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I know. I'm a frackin loser;) Believe or not I have a career, a wife and son, I love football, etc. I'm not sitting in my parents basement jacking off to the JC Penney catalog with one hand, and playing on my 360/PS3/Wii with the other while watching Battlestar Galactica on DVD (love that show though).

My childhood was the 80s in the suburbs. My friends and I playing with our Joes, He-Mans, Star Wars figures, and Transformers together in one massive battle after the other in some ditch for 12 hours a day in the summer. We'd come home after sundown, BUT ONLY TO GET THE FRICKIN' FLASHLIGHT.

So that's why I'm MAD AS HELL, AND NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE! Change the designs of the autobots, fine. Make Megatron's face a vagina, fine. But don't fuck with G.I. Joe....;)

Not so cool when they're shitting on something you love now is it?

WARNING - if you laugh at the above video then you will go to hell...see you all there...cuz I might laugh myself to death

Flint - Clive Owen

Scarlett - Julianna Moore

Snake Eyes - Doug Jones

Roadblock - Michael Clark Duncan

Stalker - Samuel L. Jackson

Shipwreck - Hugh Jackman

COBRA

Cobra Commander - Ralph Fiennes

Destro - Laurence Fishbourne

Baroness - Monica Bellucci

Storm Shadow - Donnie Yen

COBRAAAA LA LA LA LA LA LA!!

thundercats.

silverhawks (anybody?).

anything else worth doing?

PORKCHOP SANDWICHES!

Plus, CObra will end up like a bigger, nastier version of OCP, which could work. Miguel Ferrer's character is weasly just like I picture Cobra Commander being.

What a dick.

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Plus, and not to stick with the 24 angle, but whoever said "Keifer for Duke" might be onto something. And I think Vin Diesel should play Snake-Eyes... so I don't have to hear the motherfucker speak or see his face. Shit, but then I guess they'll do an origin story or give him his voice back in the third act, won't they? Bastards.

But my original two posts freaking out about G.I. Joe is different. This isn't about character design updates. That was about fucking with the core concept of G.I. Joe (the team, not just duke) vs. Cobra.

BUT, Now after hearing from Sommers and co. And hearing that they have hired a NEW writer for a new script based off of Sommers' pitch to Paramount (which mirrored what a G.I. Joe movie SHOULD be), I'm good for now.

I accept the FACT that character designs will differ.

Transformers was different because you're dealing with source material that pretty much focused on ROBOTS THAT TRANSFORM as the main characters. Bringing that to real life is hard to adapt for the mass audience, and no matter what anyone says, if they would have done it like that (i.e. If they would have had next to no human characters involved in the plot), the movie would have bombed.

But G.I. Joe is much more simple. It doesn't have to be tongue in cheek and cheesy. It can be based in more of a reality. They're humans. Like I posted above, concept is simple... Cobra wreaks havoc around the world as a new terrorist organization determined to rule the world. The current military structure is failing (Hmmm, maybe we in real life should for a GI Joe of our own... wink wink) to capture the terrorists. So the powers that be decide to recruit best of the best elite spec ops soldiers... each bringing their own specific specialty to the table. Hawk, Duke and Flint recruit them... cool intro scenes. Then the recruits are shipped to the new G.I. Joe base which has all of the new technology in warfare. Simple.

PPS: Is it just me, or does the idea of a movie about those Russian counterparts to GI.JOE sound better? October Guard or something? They were all killed off in one of the more interesting storylines.

General Hawk - George Clooney

Duke - Thomas Jane

Flint - Hugh Jackman

Lady Jaye - Catherine Bell

Scarlett - Alicia Witt

Snake-Eyes - Ray Park

Stalker - Clifton Powell

Quick-Kick - Jason Scott Lee

Roadblock - LL Cool J

Doc - Samuel L. Jackson

COBRA:
Cobra Commander - Gary oldman or Willem Dafoe

Destro - Clancey Brown

The Baroness - Monica Bellucci

Tomax & Xamot - Billy Zane

Zartan - Cliff Curtis

Dreadnock Buzzer - Jason Flemyng

Dreadnock Torch - Trevor Goddard

Dreadnock Ripper - Vinnie Jones

Major Blud - Hugo Weaving

Storm Shadow - Jet Li

Serpentor - Arnold Vosloo

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That's all I gots...

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