In the months between its first planned release date and now, G.I. Joe: Retaliation has been surrounded by a ton of questions. What was the fate of Channing Tatum's character, Duke? Was the film delayed for reasons other than a 3D conversion? How would director Jon M. Chu handle his first massive, effects-filled blockbuster? Most…
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Update: GI Joe 2 star Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson has tweeted a confirmation that Bruce Willis has officially signed on to the cast in G.I. Joe 2: Retaliation. Original story follows. Earlier this summer, we briefly mentioned a report that Bruce Willis was at the top of the wishlist for a certain role in G.I. Joe 2:…
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UPDATE: The new title is official. Wording below corrected. With less than a year to the long rumored Star Trek 2 release date, and no start date in sight, it's no surprise the film has been pushed back. Paramount announced that date so early, though, it pretty much scared off all competition. So with Trek…
Read MoreJon M. Chu and the producers of G.I. Joe: Cobra Strikes keep expanding the cast of the Joe sequel. They've retained a few actors from the first film: Channing Tatum, Ray Park and Byung Hun-lee, and have roped in a couple of significant new cast members, notably Dwayne Johnson as Roadblock. RZA is on board,…
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Director Jon Chu is loading up the cast for next summer's G.I. Joe 2. He's bringing back Channing Tatum as Duke, we heard that Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will be playing Roadblock and now D.J. Cotrona is in negotiations to play Flint and The RZA will play the man who trained Snake Eyes, the Blind…
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UPDATE: Dwayne Johnson fully confirmed this casting today via Twitter, saying "It's official: Call the Pentagon, get me my big ass gun - Rocks a JOE!." The original article from June 6 follows (with edits removing the then rumored title of "Cobra Strikes.") Next summer's sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra now has…
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Ben Affleck bailed on acting in Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby in order to direct his third film, a picture called Argo. (Good choice!) The film is from a Chris Terrio script that follows a true-life story about a CIA effort to pull diplomats out of Tehran in 1979. The hook: they use a plan…
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G.I. Joe 2 has a director (Jon Chu, of Step Up and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never fame) and a release date: August 10, 2012. The film does not have a great many announced cast members, with Lee Byung-hun (Storm Shadow), Ray Park (Snake Eyes) and Channing Tatum (Duke) the only people reportedly returning in…
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So there will be a sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, possibly subtitled Cobra Strikes. That naturally led to supposition that Joseph Gordon-Levitt might return as Cobra Commander. Given that most of the characters from the first film are said to be no-shows this time (Storm Shadow, Snake Eyes and Duke are the…
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One sequel has a release date and a script, the other is still just conceptual, but both franchises are fan favorites. Jon Chu, the director of Step Up 3D and Justin Bieber: Never Say Never is set to direct G.I. Joe 2 and once again geeked out in the press about his love of the…
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With four wide releases opening this post-Oscar weekend, Hollywood news is predictably pretty slow. So we decided to throw together three smaller stories into one article just so you can get your weekend fix all in one place. First up, Brian K. Vaughan, former writer on Lost and creator of Y: The Last Man and…
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More late breaking news on a Friday night. Deadline is reporting that Jon Chu, whose director's cut of Justin Bieber: Never Say Never just opened, has been chosen to direct G.I. Joe 2, the sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. As previously reported, Chu was one of the finalists along with Gary Grey…
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We've got some bits and pieces on some upcoming sequels for you today, from the substantiated (Ghostbusters 3) to the purely theoretical (Inception 2). Let's dive right in. We've been reporting for a while now that Bill Murray is the major holdup on Ghostbusters 3. The studio doesn't want to move forward without him, but…
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