A brand new G.I. Joe is coming along with a considerably shocking identify on the helm.
Deadline stories that Danny McBride has gotten the gig directing he subsequent G.I. Joe movie. He has beforehand been engaged on its screenplay. When it occurs, the film can be McBride’s function directorial debut.
On display screen, McBride is finest often known as a comic, having appeared in movies like Pineapple Specific and Your Highness, and on TV in Eastbound & Down and The Righteous Gem stones. However off-screen, McBride has written a good quantity of stuff exterior the comedy style. For instance, he co-wrote and produced all three of his long-time collaborator David Gordon Inexperienced’s Halloween legacyquels.
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McBride’s can be the fourth live-action G.I. Joe film, following 2009’s The Rise of Cobra, 2013’s Retaliation, and 2021’s Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins. The primary two movies had been a part of a sequence, with some characters and actors (like Channing Tatum’s Duke and Ray Park’s Snake Eyes) showing in each. Snake Eyes was a prequel and quasi-reboot, with Henry Golding taking up the title function.
Though the primary two Joes had been stable hits on the field workplace — every grossed greater than $300 million worldwide — Snake Eyes was an enormous flop, topping out at $40 million in ticket gross sales globally. Afterwards, the franchise was placed on pause. Since then, there have been hints and teases at a possible crossover film between Hasbro’s two large motion determine IPs: G.I. Joe and Transformers.
We’ll have to attend and see whether or not McBride’s G.I. Joe leads into that kind of cinematic universe, or is linked to any of the earlier live-action films in any approach. (We’ll additionally need to see if McBride’s G.I. Joe is a comedy in any respect, or whether or not it’s nearer in tone to his Halloween scripts.)
