Posted on 10/28/2007 12:31:47 PM PDT by rellimpank
Hollywood now proposes that in a new live-action movie based on the G.I. Joe toy line, Joe's -- well, "G.I." -- identity needs to be replaced by membership in an "international force based in Brussels." The IGN Entertainment news site reports Paramount is considering replacing our "real American hero" with "Action Man," member of an "international operations team."
Paramount will simply turn Joe's name into an acronym.
The show biz newspaper Variety reports: "G.I. Joe is now a Brussels-based outfit that stands for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an international co-ed force of operatives who use hi-tech equipment to battle Cobra, an evil organization headed by a double-crossing Scottish arms dealer."
Well, thank goodness the villain -- no need to offend anyone by making our villains Arabs, Muslims, or foreign dictators of any stripe these days, though apparently Presbyterians who talk like Scottie on "Star Trek" are still OK -- is a double-crossing arms dealer. Otherwise one might be tempted to conclude the geniuses at Paramount believe arms dealing itself is evil.
(Just for the record, what did the quintessential American hero, Humphrey Bogart's Rick Blaine in "Casablanca," do before he opened his eponymous cafe? Yep: gun-runner.)
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
Makes me think about Rule 308.
Now it’s a blog, go figure!
You guys are really bringing me back! I had all the old school G.I. Joe stuff and wish I still had it! I had that space station and one of the few things I kept and have on my shelf right now is Matt Mason. Now if I had kept Sgt. Storm (the guy in the red space suit) I could really have some fun!
Boys shouldn’t be playing with dolls at all.
Another ‘three days to DVD’ movie, huh?
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