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Hardly a big revelation, the report that Bruce Willis is negotiating to play the original G.I. Joe, Joe Colton, in Paramount’s G.I. Joe: Retaliation. This courtship has been going on for about six weeks or more, and Deadline was the first to tell you that Willis was the guy that Paramount was chasing for the Colton role way back on July 1. That was when we broke news that Friday Night Lights‘ Adrianne Palicki had been cast as the female lead by director Jon M. Chu. At the time the studio claimed that Willis wasn’t the only actor being eyed, but I’ve only heard his name for that role and I believe the conversation was always with Willis. He has time to squeeze this in before gearing up for another Die Hard, with the studio about to set a director from a short list of Attack the Block’s Joe Cornish, Fast Five helmer Justin Lin, Drive director Nicolas Winding Refn and Max Payne helmer John Moore. This positions Willis to have his third franchise, at age 56, as Summit develops a sequel to his 2010 sleeper hit Red.
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The more that I hear about the sequel, the more nervous I get about it. I am now hearing that Scarlett wont be in the movie? How do you have a GI Joe movie without the primary female protagonist? And no Cobra Commander or Destro? wow…. not good.
@Frank: I’m actually not a huge fan of the GI Joe concept and stopped buying the Marvel books when the main series reached about #60 or so, but I’ve gotta say that I think that somebody involved with the movies is clearly delusional in his/her failure to realize that Scarlett is one of the lead characters of the entire concept and its sole lead female character to boot. That Rachel Nichols made the character her own in the first movie — especially in light of a) Channing Tatum’s inability to generate even one authentic emotion, b) the movie’s overall incomprehensibile storyline and c) the necessity of ditching the Scarlett-Snake Eyes romance because, well, Snake Eyes’s mask makes for very poor film chemistry — makes her absence from the sequel all the more bizarre and, IMO, inexcusable. And just plain tragic when you take into consideration that they’ve replaced her with Adrianne Palicki (and her implants) as the non-entity Lady Jaye.
I suppose that their lack of logic went this way: once the moviemakers decided that they weren’t going to pursue the Scarlett-Ripcord thing from the first movie, they started to think that perhaps Scarlett could be paired off romantically with Duke, but when they decided that that wasn’t going to work, either, they failed to realize that the problem was and still is Channing Tatum’s inability to act. They failed to realize that the first movie did as well as it did at the box office (which wasn’t as big as they hoped it would get) was in spite of Tatum, not because of him.
It’s not enough. Not now. Not so close. This franchise is hungry for greatness.
Maybe Willis’s 4th franchise. I’ve been hearing rumors of a SIN CITY sequel.
Well, atleast it’ll have some balls now.