Destro would hit it.
Posted on 02/11/2008 9:53:56 AM PST by My Favorite Headache
Dennis Quaid Signs for Three 'G.I. Joe' Films
Posted Feb 11th 2008 12:02PM by Erik Davis Filed under: Action, Fandom, DIY/Filmmaking, Comic/Superhero/Geek
Well, I guess this means General Hawk won't die in the first film. While making the press junket rounds for his latest film Vantage Point, Dennis Quaid spoke a bit about his role as General Hawk in the upcoming live-action G.I. Joe flick to Collider. Not surprisingly, Paramount is hoping to turn G.I. Joe into the next big action franchise, and Quaid confirmed that he had signed on for three films.
Did you ever think, at this point in his career, that Dennis Quaid would sign on for three G.I. Joe films? Apparently the dude is looking to get dirty, and more power to him. On the film and his character, Quaid says, "We grew up with G.I. Joe and it's kind of a cartoon thing...it's a big popcorn type of tent pole action movie that...it's not deep. The character of General Hawk that I'm playing is kind of a cross between Chuck Yeager and Sgt. Rock and maybe a naïve Hugh Hefner thrown in there. General Hawk's aide to camp is a Victoria Secret supermodel so how serious can it be?"
Quaid also admitted that he might go "a little blond" with regards to his character's look, and that he's currently lifting weights, "trying to look like the cartoon." He compared the tone of the film to "the old James Bond's -- like the Dr. No's -- where the mastermind has his own private island and all these people are wearing matching coveralls.
"Finally, he says he's only shooting for two weeks out of five. For this new, live-action film, Stephen Sommers will direct a cast that already includes a ton of folks like Channing Tatum (Duke), Sienna Miller (The Baroness), Rachel Nichols (Scarlett), Ray Park (Snake Eyes), Marlon Wayans (Ripcord), Arnold Vosloo (Zartan), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (Heavy Duty) and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
G.I. Joe is due out in theaters on August 7, 2009.
G.I. Joe is nearly 54?
Makes sense in a world where Rambo is over 60.
http://www.killingboredom.com/208/Cobra_Commander_on_the_new_GI_Joe_Movie.html
Cobra Commander says the new G.I. Joe movie better not suck...
But then it’s a Stephen Sommers movie (Van Helsing, Scorpion King) so all bets are off.
Dear Hollywood,
When making an “international” movie with all the appropriate racial, gender, and religious stereotypes included, hoping to achieve the widest possible demographic; limiting your choices from villains to either a) Evil Corporate Executives, or b) Evil Corporate Executives; and abhorring a plot and acting in favor of Computer Generated Imagery, has it EVER crossed your pea-brains that the box office public does not want ANY of that?
On top of which, even in your drug addled minds, has it ever occurred to you that people LIKE their heroes, even if you do not? In fact, people LIKE their heroes so much that they very much like them to REMAIN heroes. They DO NOT like your fascination with dragging their heroes through the mud, “humanizing” them as grubby little mortals, and otherwise despising them.
Now, having had your collective butts kicked by the year 2007’s ignoring of this advice and cranking out an endless stream of expensive box office disasters, it has to be asked: are you completely incapable of pattern recognition, or are you so thoroughly divorced from reality that you no longer care if you make money, as long as you offended your audience?
Sincerely,
The (used to be) Movie Going Public
Destro would hit it.
“The character of General Hawk that I’m playing is kind of a cross between Chuck Yeager and Sgt. Rock and maybe a naïve Hugh Hefner thrown in there. General Hawk’s aide to camp is a Victoria Secret supermodel so how serious can it be?”
Its gonna SUCK. He obviously thinks its a joke.
From last I checked, It is a global task force instead of
G.I. Joe A real American Hero.
The bad guy will probably be another rightwing scottish Christian trying to cause global warming.
He’s too old! I like Quaid, but he’s 54.
Gen-X ping.
Ummm... I think Destro IS a Right-wing Scotsman. James McCullen Destro, to be exact.
Funny you should mention that...
Oct. 26, 1942:
Ask the significance of the date, and you're likely to draw some puzzled looks - five more days to stock up for Halloween?
It's a measure of men like Col. Mitchell Paige that they wouldn't have had it any other way. What he did 58 years ago, he did precisely so his grandchildren could live in a land of peace and plenty.
Whether we've properly safeguarded the freedoms he and his kind fought to leave us as their legacy, may be a discussion better left for another day. Today we struggle to envision -- or, for a few of us, to remember -- how the world must have looked on Oct. 26, 1942. A few thousand lonely American Marines had been put ashore on Guadalcanal, a god-forsaken jungle island which just happened to lie like a speed bump at the end of the long blue-water slot between New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago -- the very route the Japanese Navy would have to take to reach Australia.
On Guadalcanal the Marines built an air field. And Japanese commander Isoroku Yamamoto immediately grasped what that meant. No effort would be spared to dislodge these upstart Yanks from a position that could endanger his ships during any future operations to the south. Before long, relentless Japanese counterattacks had driven the U.S. Navy from inshore waters. The Marines were on their own.
World War Two is generally calculated from Hitler's invasion of Poland in 1939. But that's a eurocentric view. The Japanese had been limbering up in Korea and Manchuria as early as 1931, and in China by 1934. By late 1942 they'd devastated every major Pacific military force or stronghold of the great pre-war powers: Britain, Holland, France, and the United States. The bulk of America's proud Pacific fleet lay beached or rusting on the floor of Pearl Harbor.
As Mitchell Paige -- then a platoon sergeant -- and his men set about establishing their last defensive line on a ridge southwest of the tiny American bridgehead at Henderson Field on Guadalcanal on Oct. 25, it's unlikely anyone thought they were about to provide a definitive answer to that most desperate of questions: How many able-bodied U.S. Marines does it take to hold a hill against 2,000 desperate and motivated attackers?
The Japanese Army had not failed in an attempt to seize any major objective since the Russo-Japanese War of 1895. But in preceding days, Marine commander Vandegrift had defied War College doctrine, "dangling" his men in exposed positions to draw Japanese attacks, then springing his traps "with the steel vise of firepower and artillery," in the words of Naval historian David Lippman.
The Japanese regiments had been chewed up, good. Still, American commanders had so little to work with that Paige's men had only four 30-caliber Browning machine guns on the one ridge through which the Japanese opted to launch their final assault against Henderson Field, that fateful night of Oct. 25.
By the time the night was over, "The 29th (Japanese) Infantry Regiment has lost 553 killed or missing and 479 wounded among its 2,554 men," historian Lippman reports. "The 16th (Japanese) Regiment's losses are uncounted, but the 164th's burial parties handle 975 Japanese bodies. ...The American estimate of 2,200 Japanese dead is probably too low."
Among the 90 American dead and seriously wounded that night were all the men in Mitchell Paige's platoon.
Every one.
As the night wore on, Paige moved up and down his line, pulling his dead and wounded comrades back into their foxholes and firing a few bursts from each of the four Brownings in turn, convincing the Japanese forces down the hill that the positions were still manned.
The citation for Paige's Congressional Medal of Honor adds: "When the enemy broke through the line directly in front of his position, P/Sgt. Paige, commanding a machine gun section with fearless determination, continued to direct the fire of his gunners until all his men were either killed or wounded. Alone, against the deadly hail of Japanese shells, he fought with his gun and when it was destroyed, took over another, moving from gun to gun, never ceasing his withering fire."
In the end, Sgt. Paige picked up the last of the 40-pound, belt-fed Brownings -- the same design which John Moses Browning famously fired for a continuous 25 minutes until it ran out of ammunition in its first U.S. Army trial -- and did something for which the weapon was never designed. Sgt. Paige walked down the hill toward the place where he could hear the last Japanese survivors rallying to move around his flank, the gun cradled under his arm, firing as he went.
The weapon did not fail.
Coming up at dawn, battalion executive officer Major Odell M. Conoley first discovered the answer to our question: How many able-bodied U.S. Marines does it take to hold a hill against two regiments of motivated, combat-hardened infantrymen who have never known defeat?
On a hill where the bodies were piled like cordwood, Mitchell Paige alone sat upright behind his 30-caliber Browning, waiting to see what the dawn would bring.
One hill: one Marine.
But that was the second problem. Part of the American line had fallen to the last Japanese attack. "In the early morning light, the enemy could be seen a few yards off, and vapor from the barrels of their machine guns was clearly visible," reports historian Lippman. "It was decided to try to rush the position."
For the task, Major Conoley gathered together "three enlisted communication personnel, several riflemen, a few company runners who were at the point, together with a cook and a few messmen who had brought food to the position the evening before."
Joined by Paige, this ad hoc force of 17 Marines counterattacked at 5:40 a.m., discovering that "the extremely short range allowed the optimum use of grenades." In the end, "The element of surprise permitted the small force to clear the crest."
And that's where the unstoppable wave of Japanese conquest finally crested, broke, and began to recede. On an unnamed jungle ridge on an insignificant island no one had ever heard of, called Guadalcanal. Because of a handful of U.S. Marines, one of whom, now 82, lives out a quiet retirement with his wife Marilyn in La Quinta, Calif.
On Oct. 26, 1942.
I think there was an action figure of Rocky Balboa made for the GIJOE toyline. You had to send in for it.
This must be a movie based on the 3-3/4” G.I. Joe. Hopefully they’ll get a real action hero type when it comes time to do a movie based on the original 12” Joe.
Didn’t they have a refrigerater Perry with a football mace?
I think there was a Sgt Slaughter figure too. He had a posse.
“Amorphous international doer of good” might just be the ticket, since we don’t actually declare wars anymore.
My comment exactly, when I heard that one of the Wayans Brothers was going to be in it.
"Transformers" was a decent action movie, mostly because it didn't try to be too PC. If they take the same tact with GIJoe, it might work.
But, if they try and make it a touchy-feely happy kind of thing with lots of diversity and explosions....forget it.
This will surely suck, but it will be interesting to see how they put a liberal spin on it. (Big Oil funded mercernary villains instead of Islamofascists?)
Yes, a football mace. Sgt. Slaughter headed Slaughter’s marauders. They were too mean and unprofessional to be part of the actual team, though.
When Lt. Falcon screwed up and Serpentor escaped, he was sent to the Marauders as a kind of punishment to get back in shape.
IMHO he was PERFECT in that role and KURT did a decent job of walking on water as Wyatt too.
TOMBSTONE was one of my favorite wild west movies right up there near UNFORGIVEN!!
Yeah, those are pretty much my two western faves from the ‘90s. HBO’s deadwood has been pretty good, too, but they didn’t film the third season, so the series has no ending. Frustrating.
And the score card goes from the judges...10...9.5...9.0...10.
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