GI JOE RETALIATION (FUTURE?)
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| GI JOE: RISE OF THE COBRA AND RETALIATION |
G.I. JOE AVENGING DUKE
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| Duke will LIVE!! |
A little while back we got the announcement that G.I Joe would not be releasing this year, but would be moved back until March next year.
There excuse was, that the testing audience said that the
film should be in 3D and seeing how well 3D films perform on the international
box office stage, it goes without saying that they liked this idea.
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| Sienna Miller was awesome as the Baroness |
However, post conversion on a film does cost an extra $10
million (estimated), and the process doesn't take a whole year!! Clash of the
Titans post-converted to 3D in postproduction and that took round about 2
Weeks! But quite frankly, Clash of the Titans is probably the worse 3D film ever.
Suddenly the Internet burst with fans and media outlets
questioning what clearly seems to be an idiotic move by the studio! It was a
quite the pitiful move done by a studio that feared the worst after seeing big
budget films like John Carter, Battleship and Dark Shadows all flop at the box
office.
We would then soon learn that the studio had the right to
fear as the test audience pretty much felt that this new film was bad. And
looking at the three major flops for the year, they all suffered as a result of
a weak story.
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| Dwayne Johnson |
Another factor for this delay would prove to be the death of
Duke played by Channing Tatum. It was quite obvious from the release of the
first trailer that Duke was going to bite the dust. His death would also
represent the death of the first film, wiping out the memory of what some
considered as sacrilege.
But looking at Channing Tatum's box office performance this
year, with hits including The Vow, 21 Jump Street and Magic Mike and not to mention
the fact that the test audience enjoyed Duke's and Roadblock's (played by
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) relationship in first 10 minutes of the
film before they killed Duke. It was pretty clear that the studio would take
all these factors into consideration, and make sure that Duke lives!
Now that's all fine and dandy, but could the studio be
aiming to form there own little reunion with the characters from the first and
second film, in a potential third film?? Blending a old firmilar cast from the
first two films, with some new additions in a third?
Well if they not thinking like that, we sure are!! G.I. Joe,
certainly seems like something that film makers are having a tough time
adapting, regardless of the fact that there are good stories about these
characters to tell.
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| Rachel Nichols just looks hot!! |
We thinking that this franchise team up is highly
plausible. Duke dying in this film was essentially suppose to be the turning
point in this franchise, whereby showing the audience that things are not going
to go exactly as you would think. It would represent the change in tone that
the GI Joe franchise was taking by affectively killing of any negative/positive
remnants the audience might well of had with the previous film.
By killing off all the Joes the studio would not have to
worry about audiences questioning where the Joes from the previous film were,
which would allow them to just get on with this new story, with this new cast.
However, seeing that initial reaction from the film was not
great to begin with, and after success of Marvel's the Avengers, the studio
probably realized how short sighted they were really being.
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| Adrianne Palicki |
Fast Five grossed over $600 million dollars, almost double
the previous films take which was the highest gross in the series at the time, taking a little over $360 million. Marvels Avengers grossed over $1.5 Billion
and counting, with Iron Man 2 coming in second in Marvel's Cinematic Universe at $600 million. It goes without
saying, that if GI Joe follow the formula set by Avengers and Fast Five, by bringing
back old characters, introducing new characters, sharing the screen time
amongst all the characters, not going to dark on the film, adding humor and just
playing it straight without over complicating the story, they may find themselves
making some serious money.
Even though there has been a lot of criticism aimed at the
Rise of the Cobra, those characters still form part of the GI Joe mythos, and
essentially they still have a part to play on the big screen.
We know that they have planned to have 6 weeks of reshoots
for the film, and we think that they just might extend the first act of the
film, focusing a bit more on Roadblock and Duke before the attack on the Joes.
Instead of having Duke die in that battle, he just ends up
seriously wounded and in need of medical attention for the rest of the film.
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| Bruce Willis, Byung-hun Lee, and Dwayne Johnson |
Essentially this still allows most the footage that they
already filmed to stay intact, probably just adjusting the ending, and
hopefully giving us signs that more Joes survived as well. (But thats just our Theory)
Hopefully by the third GI Joe film, they will manage to get
good story, and a good script. But we seriously hope we get to see Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje ,
Marlon Wayans, Rachel Nichols and The seductive Baroness herself, Sienna Miller
all join the fray once again alongside, Channing Tatum, Dwayne Johnson and
Adrianne Palicki to really give us a GI Joe film that will appease general
audiences and excite fans.
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| The Cast of RISE OF THE COBRA |
P.S in the animated series they tried to kill Duke as well,
and it never went well either!
Do you want the cast from the first film to return to future? or should they just stop with GI JOE films?? Reboot??
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