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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
File:Gijoeofficialposter.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed byStephen Sommers
Written byScreenplay:
Stuart Beattie
David Elliot
Paul Lovett
Story:
Michael B. Gordon
Stuart Beattie
Stephen Sommers
Comic book:
Larry Hama
Produced byLorenzo di Bonaventura
Bob Ducsay
Brian Goldner
Gary Barber
Roger Birnbaum
Stephen Sommers
StarringChanning Tatum
Marlon Wayans
Rachel Nichols
Ray Park
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje
Christopher Eccleston
Sienna Miller
Lee Byung-hun
Saïd Taghmaoui
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Dennis Quaid
Jonathan Pryce
CinematographyMitchell Amundsen
Edited byBob Duscay
Jim May
Music byAlan Silvestri
Production
companies
Distributed byParamount Pictures
Release date
August 7, 2009
Running time
118 min.[1]
Country United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$170 million[citation needed]

G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a 2009 American live action film adaptation of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero toy franchise. The film is directed by Stephen Sommers, produced by Lorenzo di Bonaventura and written by Stuart Beattie based on a 1998 screenplay by John Paul Kay. G.I. Joe features an ensemble cast based on the various characters of the franchise. Filming took place in Downey, California and Prague's Barrandov Studios. The film is to be released on August 7, 2009.[2]

Premise

Set in the near future, the film is an origin story, showing the rise of the Cobra Command.[3] Stephen Sommers said, "For people who know nothing about it, it'll make sense. And to people who love this stuff, it'll show where they all came from."[4] The film focuses on Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord's (Marlon Wayans) induction into the G.I. Joe Team, providing the audience's point-of-view.[3] Locations include the Arctic, Paris, Moscow, Washington, D.C., Australia and the Sahara.[3][5][6] The G.I. Joe Team is based in the Pit,[7] while it was indicated Cobra Island will appear.[8]

Cast

G.I. Joe

  • Dennis Quaid as General Clayton Abernathy / Hawk: The team leader. Quaid described Hawk as "a cross between Chuck Yeager and Sgt. Rock and maybe a naïve Hugh Hefner".[12] Quaid's son convinced him to take on the part, and the filmmakers enjoyed working with him so much that Stuart Beattie wrote "ten to fifteen more scenes" for the character.[3] He filmed all his scenes within the first two months of production.[13] Quaid is signed on for two sequels.[14]
  • Rachel Nichols as Shana M. O'Hara / Scarlett: She graduated college at age twelve and became the team's intelligence expert. Having left school so early, she does not understand men's attraction to her. Nichols was the first choice for the role.[3] Nichols had dyed her blonde hair red – Scarlett's hair color – for her role in Star Trek, which she filmed before G.I. Joe.[15] She burned herself filming an action sequence with Miller.[16]
  • Ray Park as Snake-Eyes: A mute and mysterious ninja commando. Like his character, Park is a martial arts expert and specifically practiced wushu for the role, as well as studying the character's comic book poses.[17] Park had known of Snake-Eyes having played with the toys as a child, but he knew very little of the surrounding saga of G.I. Joe vs. Cobra, so he read the comics to further understand the character. He was nervous about wearing the mask, so he requested to practice wearing it at home. He found the full costume, including the visor, very heavy to wear and akin to a rubber band; he had to put effort into moving in it.[18]
  • Marlon Wayans as Wallace Weems / Ripcord: He has a crush on Scarlett, which she is oblivious to, and he does not realize she is in a relationship with Snake-Eyes.[3] A fan of the franchise, Wayans was cast on the strength of his performance in Requiem for a Dream.[19] Bonaventura said that film showed Wayans could be serious as well as funny.[3]
  • Brendan Fraser as Sergeant Stone[22] (maybe from G.I. Joe Extreme). It was initially rumored he would play Gung-Ho, but those rumors turned out false. [23] According to Fraser himself, he plays a motorcycle-riding sergeant. Fraser is quoted as saying he'd like to think his character is a Descendent of Rick O'Connell, Fraser's own character from Sommers' The Mummy film series. [24]

Cobra

  • Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Rex Lewis / The Doctor / Cobra Commander:[27] USA Today reported that Gordon-Levitt will play multiple roles.[4] Levitt wore a mask – which was redesigned from the comics because the crew found it too reminiscent of the Ku Klux Klan – and prosthetic makeup underneath of it.[28][29] Upon seeing concept art of the role he was being offered, Levitt signed on because; "I was like, 'I get to be that? You're going to make that [makeup] in real life and stick it on me? Cool. Let me do it.' That's a once-in-lifetime opportunity."[30] Levitt is a friend of Tatum and they co-starred in Stop-Loss and Havoc. His casting provided extra incentive for Tatum to join the film.[11] Levitt described his vocal performance as being half reminiscent of Chris Latta's voice for the 1980s cartoon, but also half his own ideas, because he felt rendering it fully would sound ridiculous.[28]
  • Sienna Miller as Baroness Anastasia DeCobray / The Baroness: A spy and sister of Cobra Commander.[31] Years before the film, the Baroness was going to marry Duke, but he left her at the altar,[3] due to his guilt over the apparent death of her brother Rex Lewis (Cobra Commander).[32] Miller auditioned for the part because it did not involve "having a breakdown or addicted to heroin or dying at the end, something that was just maybe really great fun and that people went to see and actually just had a great time seeing".[33] Miller prepared with four months of weight training, boxing sessions and learned to fire live ammunition, gaining five pounds of muscle.[34] She sprained her wrist after slipping on a rubber bullet while filming a fight between the Baroness and Scarlett.[16]
  • Lee Byung-hun as Thomas Arashikage / Storm Shadow: Snake-Eyes' rival, both were close members of the Arashikage ninja clan. Lee said he did not know G.I. Joe because it is an unknown series in Korea. Sommers and Bonaventura told him not to watch any of the cartoons to prepare for the role. Lee was attracted to Storm Shadow's "dual personality", which he stated has "huge pride and honor".[35]

Cameos

Jonathan Pryce is playing the President of the United States.[37] There are scenes involving a ten-year old Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow,[3] with Gerald Okamura as their mentor.[38] Cameos include Larry Hama (as a NATO general in a scene with Duke, Hawk, Destro and Zartan);[3][36] Kevin J. O'Connor (who had roles in Sommers's Deep Rising, The Mummy and Van Helsing) as a scientist in a flashback scene;[39] and Brendan Fraser plays a motorcycle-riding sergeant, whom he dubbed a "refugee from the Village People". Fraser stated "I'd like to think of him (the character) as a descendant of Rick O'Connell from The Mummy," thus linking both of Sommers' films.[40] Fraser said that he asked to have a cameo in the film after producer Bob Ducsay told him that the project had been green-lit.[41]

Production

Development

In 2003, Lorenzo di Bonaventura was interested in making a film about advanced military technology; Hasbro's Brian Goldner called him and suggested to base the film on the G.I. Joe toy line.[42] Goldner and Bonaventura worked together before, creating toy lines for films Bonaventura produced as CEO of Warner Bros. Goldner and Bonaventura spent three months working out a story, and chose Michael B. Gordon as screenwriter, because they liked his script for 300.[43] Bonaventura wanted to depict the origin story of certain characters, and introduced the new character of Rex, to allow an exploration of Duke.[44] Rex's name came from Hasbro.[45] Beforehand, Don Murphy was interested in filming the property, but when the Iraq War broke out, he considered the subject matter inappropriate, and chose to develop Transformers (another Hasbro toy line) instead.[46] Bonaventura felt, "What [the Joes] stand for, and what Duke stands for specifically in the movie, is something that I'd like to think a worldwide audience might connect with."[44]

By February 2005, Paul Lovett and David Elliot, who wrote Bonaventura's Four Brothers, were rewriting Gordon's draft.[47] In their script, the Rex character is corrupted and mutated into the Cobra Commander, whom Destro needs to lead an army of supersoldiers.[48] Skip Woods was rewriting the script by March 2007, and he added the Alex Mann character from the British Action Man toy line. Bonaventura explained, "Unfortunately, our president has put us in a position internationally where it would be very difficult to release a movie called G.I. Joe. To add one character to the mix is sort of a fun thing to do."[9] The script was leaked online by El Mayimbe of Latino Review, who revealed Woods had dropped the Cobra Organization in favor of the Naja / Ryan, a crooked CIA agent. In this draft, Scarlett is married to Action Man but still has feelings for Duke, and is killed by the Baroness. Snake-Eyes speaks, but his vocal cords are slashed during the story, rendering him mute. Mayimbe suggested Stuart Beattie rewrite the script.[49] Fan response to the film following the script review was negative. Bonaventura promised with subsequent rewrites, "I'm hoping we're going to get it right this time."[50] He admitted he had problems with Cobra, concurring with an interviewer "they were probably the stupidest evil organization out there [as depicted in the cartoon]".[9] Hasbro promised they would write Cobra back into the script.[51]

In August 2007, Paramount Pictures hired Stephen Sommers to direct the film after his presentation to CEO Brad Grey and production prexy Brad Weston was well-received.[52] Sommers had been inspired to explore the G.I. Joe universe after visiting Hasbro's headquarters in Rhode Island.[53] The project had found the momentum based on the success of Transformers, which Bonaventura produced with Murphy.[52] Sommers partly signed on to direct because the concept reminded him of James Bond, and he described an underwater battle in the story as a tribute to Thunderball.[54] Stuart Beattie was hired to write a new script for Sommers's film,[55] and G.I. Joe creator Larry Hama was hired as creative consultant. Hama helped them change story elements that fans would have disliked and made it closer to the comics, ultimately deciding fans would enjoy the script.[56] He persuaded them to drop a comic scene at the film's end, where Snake-Eyes speaks.[57] To speed up production before the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike, John Lee Hancock, Brian Koppelman and David Levien also assisted in writing various scenes.[58] Goldner said their inspiration was generally Hama's comics and not the cartoon.[59] Sommers said had it not been for the rich backstory in the franchise, the film would have fallen behind schedule because of the strike.[60]

Filming and design

Filming began on February 11, 2008,[61] in Los Angeles, California.[62] The Downey soundstage was chosen as Paramount needed a large stage to get production underway as soon as possible. The first two levels of the the Pit were built there, to complement the rest of the building which would be done with special effects.[63] Downey also housed Destro's MARS base in the Arctic, his legitimate weapons factory in an ex-Soviet state, as well as various submarines interiors, including a SHARC (Submersible High-speed Attack and Reconnaissance Craft) manned by two G.I. Joes.[64]

Filming in the Czech Republic's Barrandov Studios began in May.[65] The crew took over sections of the Old Town in Prague.[66] While filming in the city on April 26, several people were injured when a bus and several cars collided with a four-wheel-drive vehicle that appeared to have braking problems. The emergency services confirmed those taken to hospital had minor injuries.[67] Filming wrapped after a month in Prague.[15] Additional second unit filming took place in Paris itself, Egypt, Tokyo, the Arctic and underwater.[60]

Sommers felt "almost 100 percent" of the technology in the film would be available within 10 to 20 years, citing the various books and magazines about developing weapons that he loved reading. For example, Sommers said he believed invisibility was impossible, but the virtual invisibility provided by camouflage camera that projects what is behind a soldier on their front allowed him to include it.[60] The production designers modelled the interior of Destro's private submarine on a Handley Page Jetstream.[68] Sommers said the bulky immobile "accelerator suits" (which Beattie said had enabled them to write "a car chase where one guy's not even in a car")[3] had been tough on the actors and were likely to have their roles reduced in potential sequels.[60] Critics have compared the suits to that of NFL Superpro, a comic book character jointly licensed by the NFL and Marvel Comics, and resembling an armored football player.[69]

Bonaventura predicted the United States armed forces's aid of the film would be limited since much of the hardware is fictional.[19] The filmmakers were denied use of MRAP vehicles at the start of filming because it was ordered many MRAPs had to be sent to the Middle East as soon as possible, though later they permitted filming at Fort Irwin Military Reservation.[70] Some commentators reviewing previews and promotional art from the film have noted superficial resemblances between it and the action film parody Team America: World Police.[71][72][73]

Music

The score to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was composed by Alan Silvestri, who reunited with director Stephen Sommers to recorded his score with a 90-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the scoring stages at Sony and Fox.[74] A soundtrack album of the score is coming from Varese Sarabande Records on August 4, 2009.

Marketing

The film's actors were scanned for Hasbro's toy line,[8] which will begin in July 2009 with the release of 3 3/4 inch tall action figures. The Rise of Cobra toy line also includes 12 inch figures, and vehicles, including the first play set based on the Pit in the franchise's history.[75] Electronic Arts is developing a video game sequel to the film, also titled G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.[76] The Electronic Rap Rock song Undead by Hollywood Undead was used in the trailers for G.I Joe and American Bad Ass by Kid Rock is now being used for the TV spots. Burger King is also involved in promotion with a series of kid's meal toys.

IDW Publishing will release a four-issue prequel written by Chuck Dixon. Each issue focuses on Duke, Destro, the Baroness and Snake-Eyes respectively.[77] It begins publication in March 2009.[78] The weekly film adaptation is written by Denton J. Tipton and drawn by Casey Maloney. The film's universe will be continued by a limited series about Snake-Eyes later in 2009; Ray Park enjoyed playing the character and approached writer Kevin VanHook and artist S. L. Gallant with the idea of a comic further exploring his incarnation of the character.[79]

Reception

Reviews

Paramount decided to not screen the film for print critics before its release and wanted to focus on internet critics. [80] The film so far received positive reviews. Based on 13 reviews collected by Rotten Tomatoes, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra currently has a 75% approval rating from critics, with an average score of 6.8/10.[81] Matthew Leyland from Total Film called it "a throwaway blast of solid, stupid fun" and gave it three stars, particularly praising Joseph Gordon-Levitt's performance as the treacherous Cobra Commander.[82] Presterjohn from Cinefoolssaid "Stephen Sommers has made a movie for the gung ho kid in you".

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