[bromanagro]

They should go in the distinct direction of appealing to the Chinese markets - even it it means abandoning the American aspect from this (its possible) . Because if they do it just right and respect the eastern mysticism and philosophical aspect - that actually was rampant in the ARAH comics - then I think they can get a worldwide audience loving this and it will make tons of money for all parties and sequels will follow.

See the thing is - its really been the superhero/superpower based comicbook movies that have been doing well and setting box office records. That's unrealistic for any GI Joe movie. Its never going to happen.

Correct me if I am wrong but we have yet to see a conventional military comic book based movie do well here (or anywhere).

Are there examples???

Thinking about it some more, I recommend they should just make an original gung-fu movie with western flavor added (think Kill Bill) and it would capture a significant audience worldwide and basically we would all be getting new GI Joe toys again!

[ozzie92]

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Originally Posted by zbs

Sorry guess I didn't finish my sentence haha. I would like to go to Peru to watch and participate in those fights

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Originally Posted by zbs

Sorry guess I didn't finish my sentence haha. I would like to go to Peru to watch and participate in those fights

Well, I see you made up for it, lol. ;)

[ozzie92]

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Originally Posted by bromanagro

They should go in the distinct direction of appealing to the Chinese markets - even it it means abandoning the American aspect from this (its possible) . Because if they do it just right and respect the eastern mysticism and philosophical aspect - that actually was rampant in the ARAH comics - then I think they can get a worldwide audience loving this and it will make tons of money for all parties and sequels will follow.

See the thing is - its really been the superhero/superpower based comicbook movies that have been doing well and setting box office records. That's unrealistic for any GI Joe movie. Its never going to happen.

Correct me if I am wrong but we have yet to see a conventional military comic book based movie do well here (or anywhere).

Are there examples???

Thinking about it some more, I recommend they should just make an original gung-fu movie with western flavor added (think Kill Bill) and it would capture a significant audience worldwide and basically we would all be getting new GI Joe toys again!

Not sure Gung-Ho would do well in a Kung-Fu movie, buuut...wth, I’d watch!

[bluesparrow]

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Originally Posted by bromanagro

They should go in the distinct direction of appealing to the Chinese markets - even it it means abandoning the American aspect from this (its possible) . Because if they do it just right and respect the eastern mysticism and philosophical aspect - that actually was rampant in the ARAH comics - then I think they can get a worldwide audience loving this and it will make tons of money for all parties and sequels will follow.

See the thing is - its really been the superhero/superpower based comicbook movies that have been doing well and setting box office records. That's unrealistic for any GI Joe movie. Its never going to happen.

Correct me if I am wrong but we have yet to see a conventional military comic book based movie do well here (or anywhere).

Are there examples???

Thinking about it some more, I recommend they should just make an original gung-fu movie with western flavor added (think Kill Bill) and it would capture a significant audience worldwide and basically we would all be getting new GI Joe toys again!

This movie, WOLF WARRIOR 2, made $874mil in China:

China is a strange movie market, and trying to pander to its audiences (just cast Asians! Have kung fu!) usually backfires. THEIR movies have kung fu and Asians. Why would they want to see us do it half-assed?

It's difficult for foreign movies to even open there(there's a cap to how many they allow in per year) and they have a limited release window. The government determines how long and when a movie plays there. It's extremely political. Chinese companies get preference which is why a lot of distributors are partnering with Chinese companies to get release preference.

As to what they prefer, the Western movies that have done well there range from Disney's COCO to VENOM to AQUAMAN, all for different reasons.

[Sean_C]

Great news about a new Cobra character. Means one more new character before the line dies again.

Sure, Kenta sounds a little REX LEWIS level of Hollywood mucking up a readily available, adaptable story...but...there's no but. The butt is that fans are gonna be hurt because Hollywood will never make a Hama canon movie.

[shishi]

I made Firefly an Arashikage family member in my joeverse. He's the son of the disgraced and deceased brother of the Hard Master, Soft Master and Tommy's dad.

In terms of story of the new movie, there are always going to be complaints from older fans. Hasbro need to find new fans for the franchise, so shouldn't be limited to the Marvel comic, 80s cartoons, Resolute, Renegades, previous movies, international versions (eg Battle Action Force, Marvel UK) continuities.

[TheGabrielAngel]

I don’t get it,
Arashikage clan already have so many characters and subgroups from the series they can use as rivalries: Sei Tin, Slice & Dice, Shadow Strike, Dark Master, etc.
why create new ones?

[skinny]

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Originally Posted by TheGabrielAngel

I don’t get it,
Arashikage clan already have so many characters and subgroups from the series they can use as rivalries: Sei Tin, Slice & Dice, Shadow Strike, Dark Master, etc.
why create new ones?

Creating a new character as a writer gives you complete free reign over that character. They are a blank slate you can do anything you want with story wise. There is zero expectation, because the audience has never seen them before.
No "They didn't get Slice and Dice "right" at all." type of criticisms.

After reading the article, They are all going to be new characters in a sense. This proposed movie origin for Snake Eyes has none of the origin story elements from the Hama run.

[edgecrusher]

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Originally Posted by bromanagro

They should go in the distinct direction of appealing to the Chinese markets - even it it means abandoning the American aspect from this (its possible) . Because if they do it just right and respect the eastern mysticism and philosophical aspect - that actually was rampant in the ARAH comics - then I think they can get a worldwide audience loving this and it will make tons of money for all parties and sequels will follow.

See the thing is - its really been the superhero/superpower based comicbook movies that have been doing well and setting box office records. That's unrealistic for any GI Joe movie. Its never going to happen.

The whole mystical superhero power magic crap has been done to death and run its course. Marvel movies ran it over, backed up, and ran it over again to make sure it's so played out that it's dead. If there isn't a large enough audience to support a military-based movie then it just shouldn't be made. Bastardizing it into some other... thing... just doesn't do it justice and we end up with the first two modern Joe movies that were made and didn't do well. Generic action stuff. Or kung fu stuff. Or whatever. They either need to take a chance on an '80s throwback movie (which is popular right now and can attract a lot of nostalgia audience who will also bring their kids) or forget it.

[MFJayman]

Why is Snake Eyes in Peru. What's happening.