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Old 06-15-2007, 02:45 PM   #1
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G.I. Joe Update
Producer on the tale of two scripts.
by Scott Collura of IGN

G.I. Joe won't be the first '80s toy line/cartoon that producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura has adapted to the big screen: His live-action Transformers movie hits theaters next month, of course. But G.I. Joe, which like Transformers originated in plasticine form, has actually been on di Bonaventura's plate even longer than those robots in disguise have been. So why the long wait in seeing a finished G.I. Joe movie?

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After what has seemed like an interminable development process, it was recently reported that Hasbro has renewed its deal with Paramount to bring the long-simmering would-be film franchise to the silver screen.

"Actually, there were two incarnations of [the G.I. Joe script] and we're proceeding down both roads," di Bonaventura recently explained to IGN. "You know, there's a lot of misinformation about this and I'm glad you asked this question. We had pursued originally a take on the project written by David Elliot and Paul Lovett, which was put aside for a period of time. And then a second avenue was taken that included Action Man, and that was being written by Skip Woods."

Action Man is a British toy line based on the original 12-inch (pre-1980s) version of the G.I. Joe line. The Woods script reportedly combined Action Man and G.I. Joe into a single adventure, though this plan was met with a less than happy response by the online fan community.

"Skip Woods' draft came and somehow leaked, which is always unfortunate," says the producer. "I find it really unfortunate on the part of the writer, the artist, because Skip had literally, from the day he finished his contract to the day that draft came in, seven weeks [to complete it] because of the timeline that was being required by the overall deal. So, it has been judged in some circles, I think, harshly, and I think unfortunately like all creative processes it was just the very beginning of it. And I know that Skip is working hard on his next draft and is going to nail it."

Di Bonaventura compares the criticism of the leaked script to the nitpicking that some of the early Transformers designs were victim to when they first hit the Internet during that film's preproduction stage.

"I have a very clear vision on G.I. Joe which is the same that I have on every property that I do that people care about," he says. "You must find a way to be true to it, and you must find a way to evolve it forward. And I think one of the hardest things as a filmmaker… if you go back to Transformers [for example], the designs of Optimus and everything were being very harshly criticized early on. And what you want to have as a creative process is you want a sense of germination, then a sense of evolution, and then a sense of conclusion. It was being judged in the germination stage. It's such a rudimentary place where it was being judged, and we kept saying, 'You know what, guys? No one has seen it. We haven't even seen it. Until ILM gets involved, we won't even know.' And what is rewarding in that case is that by and large people are really loving what was done to the actual physicality of Transformers. And that's what we have to do with G.I. Joe. It's very simple. Snake-Eyes and Scarlett, Nemesis and Destro and Cobra and Duke and Heavy Duty: These guys have to be rendered as characters that the fan base recognizes and loves, and in a way that the movie can deliver a cool experience that you want to relate to. And that's an evolutionary process. I'd like to think I get it more right than wrong, so I'm hoping we're going to get it right this time."
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Old 06-15-2007, 06:41 PM   #3
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Old 06-15-2007, 07:17 PM   #4
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Good Question?........

Keep in mind that no matter what di Bonaventura says he is not a hardcore G.I. Joe Fan. I say that from what I have herd him say about the movie and its content. So its just a slip up or Nemesis Enforcer is going to show up in the movie.

My problem with this interview is the "Transformers Effect" meaning that the fans did not like the way the movie was being made at the start but still turned out to be excepted in the end. Notice how he used Optimus Prime to state his case and not Megatron, the only Transformer to look anything like his G1 Style Classic. This will not work with G.I. Joe, they are not Big Robots that people will like no matter how they look and act.

In many ways G.I. Joe is going to be harder to bring to the Big Screen.
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This doesn't sound good to me....sounds like trouble.
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I am a long time TF fan and I cant wait to see the movie infact I may go to Korea to see it LOL

so I trust this team to do a great job on this as well

I know I am in the minority but I was hoping for Action Man to be in the movie as well
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I'm really not sure what to think..........yet.........

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