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01-17-2010, 08:53 AM
ChaplainAsst
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The problem for Sommers is he HAS to resolve the following things at the top of the next movie:
1) CC and Destro were captured. He has to explain how they escape and how he builds his army. I don't care what Hasbro/IDW do over the next two years, if the movie doesn't explain that, you will have a huge discontinuity.
2) How does SS come back and how did he survive? And probably along these lines, give more back story to he and SE, which would probably be good for everyone.
3)Zartan is now president. What is his goal? Will the whole movie be GI Joe trying to usurp him? If so, that's really not a GI Joe movie - more a Tom Clancy movie.
4) The problem of the Baroness. Obviously she won't stay good - based on the video game, at any rate.
5) And the biggest problem: the movie ended without really showing the rise of Cobra - only the declaration of who CC was. So, the next movie will likely be at some level "the rise of Cobra".
This is the movie Sommers is left with. Some of these things can be dealt with in the prologue and take 5 minutes. In fact, it could be done very well in the right hands as the credits are being shown.
The simplest solution: have Zartan use his new found power to get a MARS unit into the detention center, free Destro and CC, abduct the Baroness, have Zartan slip out of the White House (explaining that sooner or later, they would have figured out he wasn't the CiC), and all this leaving GI Joe in total shock. Maybe they are somehow stripped of their authority too. Then the credits are rolled showing the whole Pursuit of Cobra and the transformation from NanoVipers to Cobra Infantry and the evolution of CC helmet. That would allow Sommers to restart the sequel on his terms.
What Hollywood will likely do, though, is have a writer spend at least an hour on that last paragraph. And then try to cram a movie into the final hour. And not a good movie at that.
So, Omega, that is my suggestion, if you have any pull. If they leave Zartan as the President, it will be The Star Wars Prequels - silent enemy who has infiltrated the leadership and is undermining all your actions, while the good guys are trying desperately to determine who the traitor is. Let Zartan do something meaningful, and then leave (sort of like CC did as the Chief of Staff in DD). Otherwise, the plot point will make Zartan the real commander.
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