1990 gijoe movie

[kiddreams]

Hello all,

I really do not post all that much. Just a lurker for the most part. I thought I would share something to everyone (some of my buddies have already seen the pics) that has been hanging on my wall for a bit. Been snowed in for a week and I finally got around to taking some semi-descent pics of it.

I just thought it was a cool part of Joe history worthy of framing. Hopefully I posted this in the right place and in the right kind of format. If not, sorry about that.

Take care,
John

[KingBiohazerd]

Wow that's awesome! Thanks for sharing it! Its very very cool

[Owner of a Lonely B.A.T.]

Totally cool!

[Robowang]

Did we know this was ever even considered? I've never heard mention of it before. The letters and estimates certainly make it seem like a live-action film. Craziness. Certainly something awesome to own!

[miscreant]

ZOMG that would've been so much better than ROC!!!!

Nah actually i think we got off lightly.

[Bombardier]

please submit this information along with pictures to yojoe.com so they can add it to their historical archives. This really is a neat find.

[Monk]

Nice! Where did you come across this?

[luigi]

so there was a joe movie in 1990
anyone have clips from it

[jaimanstone]

Wow.

[Robowang]

so there was a joe movie in 1990
anyone have clips from it

There obviously wasn't a Joe movie in 1990, but apparently they were planning one at some point.

Also, the frontpage says it was to be an animated movie. I don't see anything saying that. Storyboards are still drawn for live-action movies. I would never guess an animated film would cost $30 million 20 years ago. A fairly big-budget action movie? Sure.

[elanmars]

uhhh this is what a 90s gijoe movie would have been like...and it would have been hilarious.

YouTube - G.I. Joe long commercial for various toys (1993) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsQTkshMASM)

[kneroh]

so there was a joe movie in 1990
anyone have clips from it

What you're looking at is pretty much as far as it got.

[CobraCoffee]

Uh oh! Someone's trying to dethrone GYRE.

[C.I.A.D.]

Also, the frontpage says it was to be an animated movie. I don't see anything saying that. Storyboards are still drawn for live-action movies. I would never guess an animated film would cost $30 million 20 years ago. A fairly big-budget action movie? Sure.


Good catch. That's my fault - there's no indication of whether it was a LAM or not.

[Tolan]

Good catch. That's my fault - there's no indication of whether it was a LAM or not.

But from what AGE has done during that time period would be animation


http://www.ageinc.com/tv/animated/index.html

http://www.ageinc.com/toys/past/index.html

[BigErn]

Wow this is awesome I had no idea there was suppose be a second movie animated or not. Makes you wonder where the line would have gone had this actually been done, strange giant robots with a bunch of Joes in little bubbles and that sure looked like a transforming city towards the end of those story boards.

[Shogi]

Wow this is awesome I had no idea there was suppose be a second movie animated or not. Makes you wonder where the line would have gone had this actually been done, strange giant robots with a bunch of Joes in little bubbles and that sure looked like a transforming city towards the end of those story boards.

Reminds me of the Star Brigade mech actually. I think the brand would have been doing pretty much the same thing (maybe with a slight difference here or there) if this movie had been made.

Truly an awesome artifact, thank you for posting it kiddreams

[Robowang]

Good point, Tolan. I have never heard of any of those companies other than Warner Brothers, so I had no idea. Giant robots or not, that would have been a crazy awesome movie for that budget if it were animated. That's insane.

I wonder if it had anything to do with the space theme originally slated for 1989 or so (from information on yojoe.com's pre-production page).

[nyb3017]

Awesome thanks for sharing.

[Monk]

uhhh this is what a 90s gijoe movie would have been like...and it would have been hilarious.

YouTube - G.I. Joe long commercial for various toys (1993) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsQTkshMASM)

I love these commercials. If this is what the movie looked like, it would have been off the hook! I mean an Alley Viper fighting in the arctic! BOOYAH!

[Claudio]

guys that wasnt animated, it was clearly a live action movie, the letter in the last pic mentions a 1 million budget to build and shoot the "juggernaut II" and also the director attached to the project was peter macdonald, who was the director of rambo 3 and never ending story 3 those years, and he also was 2nd unit director in some unknown movies called wolverine origins, bourne ultimatum, harry potter 1,2 and 3, batman and robin, batman 1, rambo 2, dragon slayer, excalibur and something called EMPIRE STRIKES BACK... so no animated AT ALL lmao

[Stl_Brgd_PFC_Ramar]

Wow! This is most certainly a treat! You are fortunate to own such a unique piece of GIJOE.

[kiddreams]

Thanks for checking it out. Glad you guys dig it. Yeah, I'm pretty sure this thing was not going to be animated. There is some pretty harsh language in the script itself. There is some other material that I didn't have framed. There is an 11 page script breakdown and other notes I can probably post when I have the time.

John

[General Hawk]

This is definitely for a live action movie, not an animated one. The "Juggernaut" was a large battle robot that was essentially the "super weapon" that Cobra devised during the film. Ironically, so was "Serpentor".

It got to the script phase, and the script is out there if you look in the right places.

Yes it is truly as ridiculous as it sounds. Makes The Rise of Cobra look like Blackhawk Down.

[kiddreams]

Yes, the script(all 126 pages) would need a lot of work to "make it". That's pretty much why we never saw this develop into a film. Maybe the future re-writing and developing this was going to need would have pushed them way over their inital budget.

[DangerSneakolik]

pretty cool stuff, thanks for sharing! it's too bad the movie never did make the light of day. I would have liked to have seen this movie when i was a kid, no matter how 90's crappy it might have turned out. i personally enjoyed ROC, to some extent, but it just wasnt the same seeing a movie finally get made nearly 20 years after the first attempt.

i've got a copy of the 90's script and have read a little bit of it. guess i should sit back and read it while the weather is still stupidly cold.

[Red Herring]

Welcome to the Tank.

[WVMojo]

I love these commercials. If this is what the movie looked like, it would have been off the hook! I mean an Alley Viper fighting in the arctic! BOOYAH!

Snow Job with his arctic gear in the jungle...awesome


Awesome collection man...

[samantha]

That really is very cool.

[Topson]

Kirk Bozigan gave a presention at the Dallas Joe Convention on unproduced Joe movies. If I remember correctly, there were 7 different movie screen plays written in the 90's. All of them were bad. LOL. Kid's movie had a giant cobra robot named Serpentor Rex and the Joe's robot was Juggernaut.
Chris

[!!Snake-Eyes!!]

that is pretty slick! :D

[mightyjl]

uhhh this is what a 90s gijoe movie would have been like...and it would have been hilarious.

YouTube - G.I. Joe long commercial for various toys (1993) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsQTkshMASM)

thanks for posting that. It made my night

[07GT500 COBRA]

It looks like this ended up becoming Robojocks or whatever that movie was called where countries settled their wars or disputes by having giant robots controlled by a single pilot slug it out.

That was kinda fun, this as a Joe movie would not have been.

Still, a neat piece of history to have.

[SNAKE EYES]

Very cool... thanks for the pics and info.

[juan561127]

very cool! definitely a LAM at those prices.

[thealleyviper]

Great stuff, man. That's a heckuva trophy. Thanks for sharing!

[Storm]

Thanks for sharing buddy, that is great!!

[bandonov]

That is so cool!

[Tankster]

whats crazy is it has a mix of Transformers Feel to it with the giant robots maybe this is were they came up with the idea of star brigade?

[KushViper]

Thanks for sharing this! Awesome to see what could have been. I had no idea there was ever even a thought of a 2nd G I Joe movie back then. I wish we had it.

[JediKnutt]

Sounds like live action to me just based on the cost. $900,000 to build something called the Juggernaut II definitely makes it sound live action.

[danielgogeta]

very unique collection. These preproduction scripts is history in itself :)

[Jettfire]

This is a great piece of Joe histroy. Thanks for sharing, and thanks for taking such incredible care of it.

[bithomas]

Sounds like live action to me just based on the cost. $900,000 to build something called the Juggernaut II definitely makes it sound live action.

Agreed, I don't see how anything in a 1990 animated feature would need to be "built," especially since I don't think CGI was used much in animation around that time (if it was used at all).

Anyway, thanks for sharing this document with us!

[Monkeywrench]

WOW!

what a suprise, thanks for the info

[Python_Puckman]

Is that a walking skyscraper?! WTF! Hahah! I'm guessing that is the Juggernaut they are talking about.

Looks like it would have been interesting... I bet everyone still would have bitched about it :)

http://www.hisstank.com/forum/attachments/g-i-joe-collection-showcase/76386d1297110424-1990-gijoe-movie-1990-gijoe-movie-026.jpg

Would be cool if the script for it turned up someplace.

[Monkeywrench]

based on how shitty the Dic series was, this movie prolly would have sucked. I still wished they would have made it.

[Grandslam52]

cool find but that movie would have put the suck in success.

[kiddreams]

Here are scans of more correspondence discussing the types of models along with a breakdown of the script.

[the odinson]

cool find but that movie would have put the suck in success.

interesting first post. i have to disagree, by default this would have been a better movie than roc.
welcome to the 'tank.

[boomer77]

This is really cool I think.
Just the fact that G.I.JOE was being considered for a feature film at that time shows how good the 80's were.
The storyboard shown would be about 20 minutes of movie time maybe. Makes you wonder what the story would have been leading up to this battle.
Awesome.

[cobracobra]

Any one understand who or what Juggernaut 2 was?

[gunslingercbr]

Good catch. That's my fault - there's no indication of whether it was a LAM or not.

actually there are plenty of indications that it was a live action concept.

the director was a live action director. it states the studio it was to be filmed at. they discuss the fx budget, which pertains to live action otherwise it would all be just animation back in the 90's. it states a principal start date, which refers to principal photography.

[Gyre-Viper]

Kirk Bozigan gave a presention at the Dallas Joe Convention on unproduced Joe movies. If I remember correctly, there were 7 different movie screen plays written in the 90's. All of them were bad. LOL. Kid's movie had a giant cobra robot named Serpentor Rex and the Joe's robot was Juggernaut.
Chris


Serpentor Rex sounds like a medieval nasal decongestant.

[Funnel Rat]

It would be great if some of those unproduced scripts would show up online somewhere.

[9adam83]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing this!

[Robowang]

That script sounds awesome. The robots sound like the old Gobots power suits...pieces of the robot that people wear (called a "sleeve" here, apparently) that all combine into a big battle machine.

I would totally love this movie. It sounds VERY late-80s/early 90s. Get the rest of the script out so someone can make a fan-project CGI version or something!

[Topson]

Any one understand who or what Juggernaut 2 was?

The giant walking skyscraper robot is juggernaut 2. Each of those windows was a module that held one soldier. Each section was used to make up the whole with each section working a different part or something. Anyway, there was a tank bay in one leg and a helipad on top of one arm.

[American Joe]

A G.I. Joe Transformer crossover movie planned way back when? That would have been cool. I know I would have watched it. At that point in time, I was still digging everything G.I. Joe and Transformers regardless of how good/bad they were:D

Thanks for sharing these pictures as well as the portions of the script m(_ _)m

[Gyre-Viper]

The giant walking skyscraper robot is juggernaut 2. Each of those windows was a module that held one soldier. Each section was used to make up the whole with each section working a different part or something. Anyway, there was a tank bay in one leg and a helipad on top of one arm.



http://www.i-mockery.com/blabber/pics/tomhanks-big-transformer.jpg

[Cdt Weasel]

Ok I'm late to the game, but first wanted to say thanks for sharing. Second I'm quite glad Joe didnt go the way of voltron.

[Derek2783]

Thanks for sharing! Those are fantastic!

[CobraElite]

That is really amazing! Frame work looks great. Wow, I would love to own something like this! Congrats on a cool piece of joe history.

[facelessone]

I really wish sunbow would've made anothe movie or at least another 5 part series after the movie. This would've been great.

Thanks for sharing!!!