Posted on 10/30/2007 11:22:26 AM PDT by BykrBayb
America's battered international image has claimed a new casualty: the tough-talking comic book patriot named GI Joe.
The muscular character was created as a comic strip for American military publications during World War II and has been fighting America's foes ever since.
But in a new film version scheduled to go into production next year, the all-American will no longer work for a covert American Special Forces unit.
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In a move that has horrified an unlikely alliance of comic book fans and conservative commentators, GI Joe is now to become an acronym for "Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity," with its star representing a multinational force.
Paramount has even mooted basing GI Joe at a headquarters in Brussels.
While the character has traditionally battled America's neo-Nazi enemies, Cobra — the evil terrorist organization — will now be an arms-dealing syndicate headed by a Scot.
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(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Clooney is too much of Beta male; they need a delta or a gamma male for screwed-up production.
“They’re considering George Clooney for the part of GI Joe.”
Well you can’t get more Un-American than that.
The if the target audience is kids, pretty much any movie is a globalist, anti-corporate, enviro, wealth-demonizing, PC-fest these days.
Would that be George without a CLUEney?
We’ll just see if this was a suicidal marketing strategy or not. I’m hoping it was.
The movie should show to empty theaters and the sales of the GI Joint Operational Expletive (deleted) should plumet as well.
Thanks for telling us. Knowing is half the battle. (ducks)
This is another case of that - internationalize the American part of the backstory to get more foreign sales.
what next? How can they emasculate him more? GI Joe drinks Miller Beer?
And just WHO says that America's international image is battered?? If anything, it has been the Democrats and the MSM and the neo-communists organizations like moron.org who have worked hard to besmirch America's image. In an of itself, there is NO reason to suggest America's image is battered. It is not. America has done nothing to cause us to have a "battered image" other than to help liberate people who were oppressed under the tyranny of Islam.
Al Gore can be GI Joe - change the acronym to “Global Incineration Joint Operative Eliminator”
This solves the casting problem and this part may get Al his second Oscar too.
Well now you know...They are not Real American Heroes anymore.
This is why I almost never post threads. As soon as I do, real life gets in the way, and makes me leave. I’m curious to see what direction the replies will take. I guess I’ll have to wait and find out later. Have fun kids!
Why don’t they make GI Joe gay as well??
I want to puke every time I read that.
GI Joe has been a valuable franchise for Hasbro. This will destroy it.
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