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12-30-2005, 09:45 PM
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Rating:A-
Almost Perfect
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G.I. Joe
Starring:
Screenplay: David Elliot, Paul Lovett
Director(s):
MPAA Rating: Unavailable
Reviewed by: El Mayimbe - 12.30.05
Since I’m old school I thought maybe Stalker, Roadblock, Rock and Roll, Gung Ho, Flint, and even the Latino of the bunch - Hector Delgado himself - Shipwreck should have been in this. But you know what? The current six Elliot and Lovett selected work for this story and I will be the first to tell you that the current draft leaves it open for more G.I. JOE films and sequels. Maybe they are looking to make this a three picture series? If this turns out well, I don’t see why not and I’m sure future films would have more characters but as it stands, the current six work well in this draft.
Who are the bad guys? The antagonist of the piece is DESTRO. He is finally running the show like I feel he always should have. THE BARONESS is in this thing along with STORM SHADOW.
Yes folks, there is the Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow rivalry in this draft and they duke it out in the 3rd act. Strom Shadow has a cool back-story. In the script, he is considered the greatest hand-to-hand fighter in the world. When we first meet him on page 40, he is training Mercs and is wearing black canvas pants and has no shirt on and is covered in warrior tattoos. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were trained by the same master and were rumored to have fought once. They fought for two days before a single blade landed. Storm Shadow made a mistake and was defeated. However, the rage induced by Storm’s disgrace and has fueled ten years of further study in South America under a different master, under a weapons-free discipline of Brazilian Jujitsu.
Speaking of Snake Eyes, him and Scarlett are in a relationship in this draft and are in therapy because well, Snake Eyes doesn’t talk and has taken a vow of silence as a way of furthering his martial arts training and discipline! I thought the therapy scene on page 26 was hilarious. Very creative.
There is a COBRA in this draft. He is not COBRA COMMANDER, he is simply COBRA and he is a former G.I. JOE named REX. This story is a Cobra origin story of sorts. Here goes a quick preview of the 1st half of the script. I will try to keep the spoilers to a minimum.
At the opening we meet DUKE and REX as 14-year-old best friends and army brats getting into trouble together. We then cut to the present when they are in their thirties wearing thick extreme weather scuba gear. They swim out of a submarine dock into the deep ocean out in Northern Greenland. They are in front of a highly sophisticated research outpost consisting of a massive ice dome and a dozen yellow steel buildings built to withstand the extreme weather. Back in Washington D.C., in a military intelligence building, amongst high-ranking military and Intel officials, LT. GENERAL HAWK quarterbacks the operation on remote satellite feed. Greenland houses the newest incarnation of Destro Labs, a highly sophisticated, highly illegal, bio-weapons facility. Final clearance just came down from NATO and the Joint Chiefs. The operation has been given a green light. The stated mission objectives? One: Find and remove Destro’s two top scientists – both of whom have found their way onto the INC and UN’s list of wanted war criminals. Two: Completely eliminate the facility’s capacity to operate. A congressman is concerned that how does Hawk know that the lab is Destro’s and not some tree hugger from Harvard studying global warming? Hawk replies that his team has spent the last decade combating Destro’s ambitions. Destro is a true global threat. A shrewd billionaire with something of an Alexander the Great/Genghis Khan complex. The weapons facility fits Destro’s operating profile to a tee: the remote location to avoid oversight from the local authorities; SAT imagery shows troop barracks, machine gun sentry positions, and state of the art radar and comm. dishes. A six-man extraction team is sufficient for the operation. The G.I JOE team is the elite of the elite. They are consummate professionals. The next five pages we meet the Joes – HI-TECH, HEAVY DUTY, SNAKE EYES, WILD BILL, SCARLETT, and COMMANDER CONRAD HAUSER aka DUKE. REX is the 2nd in command behind Duke.
The next couple of pages, the Joes carry out the mission and something goes horribly wrong. Rex is horribly scarred as a result and I mean bad. He makes a recovery at a hospital and then disappears. Apparently, the Baroness was sneaking into his hospital room and shooting up Rex with steroids to speed his recovery. The six Joes track Rex down to Paraguay and they go after him. Destro is injecting a testosterone/growth hormone gene doping cocktail into Rex made by a DR. BENDER in turn making Rex into a chemically enhanced super soldier. The roids are also screwing with Rex’s head. Rex is reborn as Cobra. Destro wants Cobra to lead his army of super soldiers. The super soldiers are the best mercenaries from around the world that are also being injected with the same juice as Rex is. So basically that is what G.I. JOE is about - Duke and the Joes must stop Destro, Cobra and the chemically enhanced super soldiers.
What is cool is that there is no big Macguffin weapon of mass destruction that the Joes must stop like in the James Bond films. Cobra and the super soldiers are the weapons. Like the Baroness explains, in society’s relentless quest for more technologically advanced weapons, people seem to have forgotten the greatest weapon ever made: the human body.
The relationship of Duke and Rex is like that of Anakin and Obi-wan - Duke and Rex are tight and Duke is trying to save his friend from turning to the dark side.
Rating:A-
Almost Perfect
View Film Preview
G.I. Joe
Starring:
Screenplay: David Elliot, Paul Lovett
Director(s):
MPAA Rating: Unavailable
Reviewed by: El Mayimbe - 12.30.05
Since I’m old school I thought maybe Stalker, Roadblock, Rock and Roll, Gung Ho, Flint, and even the Latino of the bunch - Hector Delgado himself - Shipwreck should have been in this. But you know what? The current six Elliot and Lovett selected work for this story and I will be the first to tell you that the current draft leaves it open for more G.I. JOE films and sequels. Maybe they are looking to make this a three picture series? If this turns out well, I don’t see why not and I’m sure future films would have more characters but as it stands, the current six work well in this draft.
Who are the bad guys? The antagonist of the piece is DESTRO. He is finally running the show like I feel he always should have. THE BARONESS is in this thing along with STORM SHADOW.
Yes folks, there is the Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow rivalry in this draft and they duke it out in the 3rd act. Strom Shadow has a cool back-story. In the script, he is considered the greatest hand-to-hand fighter in the world. When we first meet him on page 40, he is training Mercs and is wearing black canvas pants and has no shirt on and is covered in warrior tattoos. Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow were trained by the same master and were rumored to have fought once. They fought for two days before a single blade landed. Storm Shadow made a mistake and was defeated. However, the rage induced by Storm’s disgrace and has fueled ten years of further study in South America under a different master, under a weapons-free discipline of Brazilian Jujitsu.
Speaking of Snake Eyes, him and Scarlett are in a relationship in this draft and are in therapy because well, Snake Eyes doesn’t talk and has taken a vow of silence as a way of furthering his martial arts training and discipline! I thought the therapy scene on page 26 was hilarious. Very creative.
There is a COBRA in this draft. He is not COBRA COMMANDER, he is simply COBRA and he is a former G.I. JOE named REX. This story is a Cobra origin story of sorts. Here goes a quick preview of the 1st half of the script. I will try to keep the spoilers to a minimum.
At the opening we meet DUKE and REX as 14-year-old best friends and army brats getting into trouble together. We then cut to the present when they are in their thirties wearing thick extreme weather scuba gear. They swim out of a submarine dock into the deep ocean out in Northern Greenland. They are in front of a highly sophisticated research outpost consisting of a massive ice dome and a dozen yellow steel buildings built to withstand the extreme weather. Back in Washington D.C., in a military intelligence building, amongst high-ranking military and Intel officials, LT. GENERAL HAWK quarterbacks the operation on remote satellite feed. Greenland houses the newest incarnation of Destro Labs, a highly sophisticated, highly illegal, bio-weapons facility. Final clearance just came down from NATO and the Joint Chiefs. The operation has been given a green light. The stated mission objectives? One: Find and remove Destro’s two top scientists – both of whom have found their way onto the INC and UN’s list of wanted war criminals. Two: Completely eliminate the facility’s capacity to operate. A congressman is concerned that how does Hawk know that the lab is Destro’s and not some tree hugger from Harvard studying global warming? Hawk replies that his team has spent the last decade combating Destro’s ambitions. Destro is a true global threat. A shrewd billionaire with something of an Alexander the Great/Genghis Khan complex. The weapons facility fits Destro’s operating profile to a tee: the remote location to avoid oversight from the local authorities; SAT imagery shows troop barracks, machine gun sentry positions, and state of the art radar and comm. dishes. A six-man extraction team is sufficient for the operation. The G.I JOE team is the elite of the elite. They are consummate professionals. The next five pages we meet the Joes – HI-TECH, HEAVY DUTY, SNAKE EYES, WILD BILL, SCARLETT, and COMMANDER CONRAD HAUSER aka DUKE. REX is the 2nd in command behind Duke.
The next couple of pages, the Joes carry out the mission and something goes horribly wrong. Rex is horribly scarred as a result and I mean bad. He makes a recovery at a hospital and then disappears. Apparently, the Baroness was sneaking into his hospital room and shooting up Rex with steroids to speed his recovery. The six Joes track Rex down to Paraguay and they go after him. Destro is injecting a testosterone/growth hormone gene doping cocktail into Rex made by a DR. BENDER in turn making Rex into a chemically enhanced super soldier. The roids are also screwing with Rex’s head. Rex is reborn as Cobra. Destro wants Cobra to lead his army of super soldiers. The super soldiers are the best mercenaries from around the world that are also being injected with the same juice as Rex is. So basically that is what G.I. JOE is about - Duke and the Joes must stop Destro, Cobra and the chemically enhanced super soldiers.
What is cool is that there is no big Macguffin weapon of mass destruction that the Joes must stop like in the James Bond films. Cobra and the super soldiers are the weapons. Like the Baroness explains, in society’s relentless quest for more technologically advanced weapons, people seem to have forgotten the greatest weapon ever made: the human body.
The relationship of Duke and Rex is like that of Anakin and Obi-wan - Duke and Rex are tight and Duke is trying to save his friend from turning to the dark side.