Friday, June 12, 2009

It's Getting Worse for Joe

There are rumors swirling now that Stephen Sommers has been removed from wrapping up the GI Joe film. Supposedly a test screening bombed, atomic style, and forced the personnel change. It has been reported that it was one of the worst testings in Paramount's history, which has forced much unplanned post-production. All this, of course, has been refuted by producer di Bonaventura who says none of this has happened and that the screening went very well. Either way, Hasbro CEO Brian Goldner is reportedly distancing himself from the project. Though, all this is kinda his fault for going with a shitty script that was rushed due to the writers' strike. You know, The Transformers was awesome and the sequel looks great. You cannot honestly tell me that it's impossible to do that with the Joe franchise. Maybe this will bomb so badly that we can just reboot the whole damn thing in a few years and pretend this whole photo-shopped sunglasses turd never happened. Or, maybe they'll really clean it up in post...

4 comments:

  1. Not to shift focus from G.I. Joe, but did you see this news:

    "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre director Marcus Nispel has given the Conan The Barbarian remake a boost by signing on to replace Brett Ratner."

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  2. Yeah...I'm just not sure what to think of it. Judging by his previous work, he'll miss the point just as much as Milius did and Ratner would have.

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  3. I hope I didn't step on your toes by posting over at my blog, but I basically did the EXACT same story this morning!

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  4. And I'm not sure what to think of Nispel doing Conan, either. He seems just fine when he does horror movie remakes, but this seems a little out of his realm of ability.

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