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04-13-2011, 10:23 PM | #1 |
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Director Jon Chu Talks G.I. Joe 2
While talking to The Deadbolt.com about The LXD (The League of Extraordinary Dancers) and Justin Bieber's Never Say Never, director Jon Chu also discussed the subject of his currently-in-development G.I. Joe 2. One could say he's got the right attitude for the job. What follows is a G.I. Joe 2 excerpt of the interview. THE DEADBOLT: With G.I. Joe 2, how will you approach it to maximize the potential of that project? CHU: Well, for Joe, I grew up playing with G.I. Joes and watching Joe and reading the comics of Joe. It means so much to me. To me, it’s one of the few brands that has a soul, a multi-generational soul, where it’s about what it means to be a leader in the community, in your home, with your friends, and what it means to be a leader and a hero. I think that’s an important message right now in the world when everyone’s kind of questioning what it means to be the leader of the world. I think it’s not just another action movie. Maybe the first one was that, but we’re really trying to break it down and take the shine off and show that my Joes were the ones in the mud, the sand and the trees and in the epic worldwide adventures. Each one had individual talents. So we really want to bring the experience of what I grew up with playing with these toys. What it feels like so that kids now can be reintroduced to the Joes and experience it in a different way. This is like down and dirty Joe for me. THE DEADBOLT: I also have a G.I. Joe question as related to LXD. I’ve been reading online that some people think that because you have a dance background, you won’t be able to handle the action. But given how you handled certain action in LXD in such a unique manner, that kind of goes against what they think. How do you see it? CHU: I mean, I can’t ever change what people think. Throughout my whole life it’s been, “Oh, how can this guy who’s not a dancer do a dance movie? How can this guy who has never done a movie do a movie? How can this guy who has never done 3D do a 3D dance movie? Isn’t that cheeseball? How can this guy who has never done a documentary do a documentary? How can a Justin Bieber concert movie not be a concert movie? And how can it actually be successful when Jonas and all of those others have fallen?” Every step of the way, it’s always been that. But even the message in Never Say Never is [how] we like to be the underdog. It gives us something to work for. To me, I hope it’s always like this in my life to where I always need to be pushed, because it always makes me better. But yeah, I’ve worked with choreographers before and of course it’s very different. It’s dance and dance has a rhythm. Dance has a movement and all of this stuff. But what I love is that movement can tell stories, whether it’s John Wayne on the porch leaning against that pole or Cyd Charisse taking off her jacket. Any movement can communicate what a paragraph can never communicate. Movement is a big part of visual story telling. n action, obviously it’s different, you’re doing a bunch of stuff. But the best action is action that’s telling your story, action that’s actually evolving your character. To me, I have a big challenge ahead of me. I want to do a really kick-ass movie, action that’s fun, big, crazy. But at the same time, at it’s core, the action is telling an emotional story about our heroes. I think that my experience with LXD and the experiments of LXD only help prepare me for the mini-things I want to tell within the action. Have people really seen LXD? I don’t know. That’s why I’m excited for the DVD to come out so a lot more people can be exposed to it. But I just let my work speak for itself. When it comes out, I hope people enjoy it as much as I’ve enjoyed creating the stuff, because it’s really, really fun. That’s all movies are about really. For me, it is to be able to experience a story - a fantasy with a group of friends, your family, a date - and go home and talk about it and let it inform your life and bring joy to your life. I think that’s what all of my projects have in common, that they try to do that.
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04-13-2011, 10:28 PM | #2 |
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yeah...it really sounds like this guy is up to the job...he actually understands the meaning of gi joe and wants to attract fans. he knows whats he is dealing with because he was a joe fan...i really hope this is a kick ass movie..yo joe
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04-13-2011, 10:29 PM | #3 |
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I'd say he answered those questions about as well as he possibly could have.
Now to see if he can overcome the challenges he already knows are ahead of him and make a good movie. |
04-13-2011, 10:32 PM | #4 |
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This part here...
"I think it’s not just another action movie. Maybe the first one was that, but we’re really trying to break it down and take the shine off and show that my Joes were the ones in the mud, the sand and the trees and in the epic worldwide adventures. Each one had individual talents. So we really want to bring the experience of what I grew up with playing with these toys. What it feels like so that kids now can be reintroduced to the Joes and experience it in a different way. This is like down and dirty Joe for me. " ...That actually gives me a bit of hope for this movie. |
04-13-2011, 10:36 PM | #5 |
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This part here...
"I think it’s not just another action movie. Maybe the first one was that, but we’re really trying to break it down and take the shine off and show that my Joes were the ones in the mud, the sand and the trees and in the epic worldwide adventures. Each one had individual talents. So we really want to bring the experience of what I grew up with playing with these toys. What it feels like so that kids now can be reintroduced to the Joes and experience it in a different way. This is like down and dirty Joe for me. " ...That actually gives me a bit of hope for this movie. I agree. At the very least he is trying to differentiate his movie from ROC. Right from the start he's saying "it's something else". |
04-13-2011, 11:04 PM | #6 |
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Ok, it all fell apart right here. When it comes to fanboys movies are not about fun. There are tons of movies that are fun that got ripped to shreds. When it comes to fanboys, it's all about ripping a movie apart frame by frame. Trying to nitpick every teeny tiny thing. They all become professional critics. Most GI Joe fans are not going to be able to watch any GI Joe movie without comparing every frame to the ARAH cartoon. He can't make one tiny mistake, everything has to be perfect. I wonder if he knows that most Joe fans are already planning to hate the new movie & won't even give it a fair chance right from the start? Just like with ROC, they made plans to hate it ahead of time & then watched for every little excuse they could find to dog the shit out of it. And they haven't stopped dogging it yet. He's so screwed!!!! Last edited by Steelgrave; 04-13-2011 at 11:07 PM.. |
04-13-2011, 11:25 PM | #7 |
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His heart is in the right place, let's hope his skills are too, and that the script is damn good.
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04-14-2011, 06:43 AM | #8 |
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Ok, it all fell apart right here. When it comes to fanboys movies are not about fun. There are tons of movies that are fun that got ripped to shreds. When it comes to fanboys, it's all about ripping a movie apart frame by frame. Trying to nitpick every teeny tiny thing. They all become professional critics. Most GI Joe fans are not going to be able to watch any GI Joe movie without comparing every frame to the ARAH cartoon. He can't make one tiny mistake, everything has to be perfect. I wonder if he knows that most Joe fans are already planning to hate the new movie & won't even give it a fair chance right from the start? Just like with ROC, they made plans to hate it ahead of time & then watched for every little excuse they could find to dog the shit out of it. And they haven't stopped dogging it yet.
He's so screwed!!!! Lemme put it this way: 20,000 Tank Members x $12 a ticket is only $240,000. That ain't diddly-squat to Hollywood. Even if you throw in significant others and family members we're probably not even breaking $1,000,000. Even if you assume the "fanboy" audience of Joe-dom is 10 times greater than the number of people actually registered here at the Tank (which quite frankly is a very generous estimate I'd say), we're barely scraping into "Hollywood blinks an eye" territory. "Fanboys" can be useful for word-of-mouth on a film, but even that is only of very limited value, as studios are finding out with films like Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Tron Legacy which both had huge "fanboy hype" coming out of San-Diego Comic Con but that hype didn't really translate into Box Office dollars (Tron Legacy did OK, but not nearly as well as Disney wanted it to). I mean, to hear fanboys tell it, you'd think Serenity should be bigger than Star Wars. |
04-14-2011, 07:12 AM | #9 |
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Joking aside, Atleast he seems to atleast get part of what made the Joes cool. That they each had their own "thing", and it seems like he's going to try and integrate that into the storylines. How great would it be to see the Joe team in different environments and to have them hook up with guys like Snow Job, Ice Berg, Dusty, Stalker, and Recondo? Instead of just taking the same cast? Split the main cast up and bring in the specialists to help them. Thats how Joe used to work. Atleast he seems to have that firmly in hand.
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04-14-2011, 07:19 AM | #10 |
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Heck, he gets something Sunbow never did: it makes no sense to have Dusty running around in Anarctica, or Recondo in the Desert, or Torpedo wearing his Scuba gear in Washington DC (that was actually on Marvel). I never liked "every joe a pilot and at least as good as Ace or Wild Bill" - that never made any sense. The movie carried that over with Heavy Duty and Duke being expert sub drivers. I thing Chu would bring in Shipwreck or Deep 6 to drive a sub, Ace or Wild Bill to fly, Clutch or so many others to drive.
But I agree with what was said above - his good intentions don't matter if the script is bad.
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