LatinoReview is reporting that Brendan Fraser has filmed a cameo appearance for G.I. Joe. Fraser plays Gung Ho, a Village People-looking soldier from the toyline, during a training sequence in The Pit. If it was anything more than a cameo, I’d seriously question the logic behind this decision, as the actor hardly looks anything like the actor.
Also, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson has apparently been offered the role of the Latino Navy SEAL named Shipwreck. And yes, The Rock is Samoan, so this makes perfect sense. But I’ve learned to stop questioning the logic behind this movie long ago…
Both actors have previous ties to filmmaker Stephen Sommers, who directed Frazer in The Mummy and The Rock in The Mummy Returns. So politically it makes sense, even though it doesn’t make sense for the characters or source material. I mean, who cares about the characters or source material anyway?
GI Joe will hit theaters on August 7th 2009.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
Every casting choice for this film after Ray Park has been like a punch in the face. After Reading Brandon fraser playing the frenchman Joe Gung Ho…
I feel like I just had the Angel Face beating from Fight Club.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:22 am
Maybe all you GI JOE freaks should just shut the fuck up and stop whining. Lat time I checked if you new anything about casting and making movies, it would be a career for you. Give this movie a chance.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:23 am
Yeah, seriously. I was a pretty big fan when i was a kid, so yeah they are ruining this film.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:24 am
BJ Penn, you are aware that some actors are better than others right?…Just wondering.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 am
This is going to be a spectacular flop.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:51 am
I don’t remember shipwreck being latino
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:52 am
@BJ Penn
Obviously the BJ stands for BLOW JOB. Cuz only a cock sucking douchebag like yourself would think this film has a great cast. Don’t let your complications due to AIDS cloud your judgment.
Please enlighten us all on the Coarse we need to take to get a degree in casting? Obviously you’re implying that it takes some great intellect to handle the job. This film is covered in Red flags of a stupid script and a shit budget. If you cant see that. Then obviously cock sucking has affected your eye site.
Go back to dying from your disease that has no cure and STFU.
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:54 am
This cast is as mixed as the Star Trek cast.
Both movies have lots of actors that work for different audiences.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pm
Mask from “Tap Out” should be Zartan
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pm
“…the actor hardly looks anything like the actor.”
So, Brendan Fraser looks nothing like Brendan Fraser?
EDIT NEEDED! STAT!
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:55 pm
For the record, Gung Ho is NOT French….he’s Cajun….big difference. The French drop weapons. They don’t fire them.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:06 pm
I will only see this if they wear those exact costumes pictured.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 pm
@Lyserg
So, can you explain which different audiences the cast of GI Joe work for then? I can only spot one, the audience of douch bags. I think these actor choices declare what kind of shitty budget they’re working with. And please, don’t compare it with the cast of Star Trek, that only emphasizes your lack of taste.
Marlon Wayans, Arnold Vosloo, Dennis Quaid, Sienna Miller and Brendan Fraser… in the same movie… Someone has to point a gun to my face before I would expose my eyes, ears and soul to those bad-excuse-for-an-actor-types-who-look-pretty-good-or-has-an-”dangerous-look”. Yes, Sienna Miller, only thing thats getting her in to rolls is her hype in the gossip press.
The same goes for Stephen Sommers track record, my god!!!!!!!! It makes me go BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARF!
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pm
@ Canestrini
Dead on, sir. Dead on.
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
@ Vlad.
Cajun’s ARE French, Dipshit.
The Acadians were evicted from Acadia (which has since been resettled and consists of parts of what is now known as New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island, Canada) in the period 1755 - 1763; this has become known as the Great Upheaval or Le Grand Dérangement. At the time there was a war in what is now Canada between France and Great Britain over the colony of New France. This war is known in the United States as the French and Indian War, though it was only one theater of the Seven Years’ War.
The migration from Canada was spurred by the Treaty of Paris (1763) which ended the war. The treaty terms provided 18 months for unrestrained emigration from Canada. Only after many of the Cajuns had moved to Louisiana did they discover France had secretly ceded Louisiana to Spain in the Treaty of Fontainebleau (1762).
ALSO,
If it wasnt for the French Resistance in WW2. The Americans would not have been able to take full credit for winning a war they only came into in the final period. A war which was primarily funded by USA banking interests.
Va te faire foutre!
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:58 pm
More people crying about a movie they haven’t seen. If it sucks so bad, don’t watch it. If a movie is going to be such an affront to your childhood memories, go back into your parents basement and play with your old action figures and read your old comics and ignore it.
April 3rd, 2008 at 2:17 pm
if GI JOE is a big hit or a major
FLOP just be thankful the
franchise made it to big screen
instead of sraight to DVD!!!!
knowing is HALF the BATTLE!!!!
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 pm
YAY!!! It made it to the big screen!!! YAY!!!!…
And there was much rejoicing…
Wy didn’t I see it that way? Now I’m happy! Or maybe not. Why?
Well mr Jizzing James Gonzo, why do I not share your enthusiasm?
Well here it comes…
>The franchise will surely, no definitely DIE because of this release.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Well I’m taking Tabors advise. I’m gonna seek out my old Cobra Commander, whom I dismembered with a fire cracker, and put him together, crying, whilst I’ll let Storm Shadow, with his katana of pure plastic, slice the limbs right off again.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Hollywood.
Raping my childhood, one memory at a time.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
To elaborate, looks like they are just trying to make a big budget hype movie that will sell alot of action figures and happy-meals.
April 3rd, 2008 at 3:52 pm
Brendan Fraser speaks fluent French so playing a Cajun is not such a stretch of the imagination is it? Why don’t you all wait to see the film before you slate it? Or would that require too much intelligence and common sense?
April 4th, 2008 at 1:56 am
Oh, lucky for Sommers that the ONLY GUY IN HOLLYWOOD WHO SPEAKS FLUENT FRENCH was available.
But isn’t that overkill? How many movies out of Hollywood features foreign languages anyway?
And maz, and all the other positive thinkers; the voices of intelligence and common sense is just the things who speak to me regarding this movie, and they’re saying “Baaaaaaarf!”.