Jason Statham to Play Action Man in 'G.I. Joe' Flick?
Filed under: Action, Paramount, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Games and Game Movies, War
I don't really know a whole lot about the history of the G.I. Joe toy line, but apparently there was a British equivalent to the action figure known as "Action Man," and according to IESB.net, the producers of the (eventually) upcoming G.I. Joe movie are intent on including Action Man in the equation so as not to alienate international moviegoers who really have no freakin' idea who "G.I. Joe" is. (That make sense?)Well it doesn't really have to. According to IESB, Paramount is looking at Jason Statham to play the part of the heroic Action Man -- and considering that Jason Statham kicks all kinds of butt and remains ultra-cool while doing it, I'm all for his inclusion in any ol' action flick. Word is that Stephen Sommers will be helming the project for Paramount, and that Mark Wahlberg is the (longtime) first choice to play a character known as Duke.
If you're a diehard G.I. Joe enthusiast, keep your browser positioned on this site, because they seem to have the inside track on this highly-fanticipated adaptation. Me, I just love action movies -- so the sooner this flick actually arrives, the better.
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8-14-2007 @ 4:07PM
Jessica said...
G.I Joe ? Thats strange. I read this movie was going to be produced. Since we are having problems with Iraq they dropped it and did Transformers instead.
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8-14-2007 @ 4:47PM
Crafty St. James said...
I think this guy needs to be in the movie!
http://www.myspce.com/Green_with_confidence
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8-14-2007 @ 6:13PM
nymoster said...
G.I. Joe was known as "Action Force" over here. All dialogue referencing "G.I. Joe" was replaced and dubbed over(poorly) with different voice actors saying "more force!" "go action force, go!".... or things to that effect. Don't think the action man toy range was connected in any case.
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8-14-2007 @ 7:17PM
Akbar Fazil said...
Wow Crafty, you try to pimp yourself and you can't even make the URL be correct.
Sad.
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8-14-2007 @ 6:59PM
David said...
You know the original Transformers story was genius and it was ruined (for me) by Michael Bay so I'm dumping my expectations for this movie.
The cartoon, toys and comics were great and I can just see this being ruined by making it something to tie everything to the cartoon and you end up with a cool character talking like a Jaime Kennedy wannabe white rapper kind of guy. They can still use the same characters, and they can be more grown up, like in the comics.
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8-14-2007 @ 7:18PM
Scott Weinberg said...
Actually, no. That was a shout-out to a source that seems to get a lot of "Joe" news. Thanks for reading.
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