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GI Joe Live-Action - Set it in the 80's!
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11-24-2017, 12:02 PM
captain mal
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I was thinking - with Stranger Things being a huge hit - and with the nostalgia factor riding high - now is a perfect time to have a new take at live-action GIJoe.
Take the Marvel Cinematic Universe as inspiration. They use the comics as inspiration for their movies - but combine elements, move them around - rework them. Use the classic Larry Hama series as inspiration.
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Open in 1982 - A nuclear scientist is being transported on a train. Scarlett and Snake Eyes are there to protect the scientist. Cool fights happen. She's kidnapped.
Joe's regroup under the Fort Wadsworth Motor Pool. Two new members are being added to the team - Lady Jaye and Flint. Lots of the rest of the team is already in place - Roadblock, Rock n Roll, Duke, and so on. Someone makes a comment about how they dress really casual - there is no dress-code in GIJoe... its a top-secret unit, so there are no military regulations. (make the show self-aware... poke fun at the ridiculousness of some of it and play it up)
Cobra is run from Springfield. CC and Baroness travel to Scotland to buy arms from Destro. Destro has a history with Baroness.
The Joes and Cobra fight a couple more times... then the end of the movie, they use their kidnaped Nuclear Scientist to create a nuclear explosion in the center of the Gulf of Mexico - creating Cobra Island.
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This is all I've got. Doesn't seem like it would be that hard. Make it fun - kinda off-kilter and self-aware. A throwback to the oddness of the 1980's. "Hi-Tech" stuff would be green-screen computers that run DOS. No cell phones, No internet, etc. As Stranger Things does with Sci-Fi / Horror - use the 1980's action movies as a reference point. Cobra, Predator, Terminator, Aliens, American Ninja, The A-Team.
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