Casting: Jonathan Pryce in G.I. Joe, Danny Huston in Wolverine

A couple of quick casting bits for this Monday: Gavin Good’s “Wolverine” has nabbed its young Stryker — actor Danny Huston (the creepy ass vampire from “30 Days of Night”, pictured left). At least, according to Joblo.com. He’ll be chasing Wolverine opposite Hugh...

February 18th, 2008 | Read More

Yo! It’s the G.I. Joe Movie Logo!

Yeah, yeah, I know. Whoopie, it’s the official logo for Stephen Sommers upcoming “G.I. Joe” movie. Big deal, right? But hey, it’s Sunday, and there’s not a whole lot of movie news to report, so check out what MTV discovered and let’s call it a weekend, shall we? See...

February 17th, 2008 | Read More

G.I. Joe’s Dennis Quaid in General Hawk Uniform

Look, kids, it’s the first ever picture from the “G.I. Joe” movie set — featuring Dennis Quaid as General Hawk! And he’s wearing a spiffy uniform to boot! Gee, I wonder what Hawk is hearing through that phone that’s got him looking all surly. Maybe they raised his...

February 14th, 2008 | Read More

Christopher Eccleston Replaces Murray as Destro on G.I. Joe

G.I. Joe villain Destro is a hard man to cast, but someone’s gotta do it. According to IESB, former Doctor Who and Heroes star Christopher Eccleston has now replaced David Murray at the last minute to play Destro. Why the sudden change? Apparently Irishman Murray failed to get his work visas in...

February 11th, 2008 | Read More

Karolina Kurkova is Cover Girl in G.I. Joe

Yet another casting news from the fine folks over at IESB, aka “G.I. Joe News Headquarters”. Seriously, the amount of scoop these guys have been getting, you’d think the webmaster secretly moonlights as the director of “G.I. Joe” or something. In any case, the latest addition...

February 6th, 2008 | Read More

Review of the Latest G.I. Joe Script

Those sneaky boys over at Latino Review have nabbed yet another copy of the “G.I. Joe” movie, and they have a review of it on their site. This is apparently the version of the script (written by Stuart Beattie) that will be used in the forthcoming movie to be directed by Stephen Sommers,...

January 31st, 2008 | Read More

G.I. Joe Casting: David Murray is Destro

Yup, another day, another casting news concerning the “G.I. Joe” movie, this one from IESB, who says that David Murray has been cast as the villainous Destro. You know, I have to give the guys at IESB credit; they’ve basically supplanted AICN as the place to go for your geek movie scoops....

January 29th, 2008 | Read More

Dennis Quaid is General Hawk in G.I. Joe

Yup, it’s another bona fide “G.I. Joe” casting: this one comes from Variety, and has Dennis Quaid joining the cast of Stephen Sommers’ action-adventure flick as General Hawk, described as “the grizzled team leader”. Variety also confirms the Channing Tatum as Duke...

January 28th, 2008 | Read More

Arnold Vosloo is Zartan in G.I. Joe

Looks like the “G.I. Joe” movie is revving up production big time, with the earlier announcement of Channing Tatum picking up the Duke character, and now IESB has news that “Joe” director Stephen Sommers has reached back into his “Mummy” days for the actor he wants...

January 28th, 2008 | Read More

Channing Tatum is Duke in the G.I. Joe Movie

Yes, you heard that right. Channing Tatum will be playing Duke, leader of the G.I. Joes, in the upcoming “G.I. Joe” movie. So who the heck is Tatum? Hell if I know. Here’s what AICN, who broke the news, says about him: “…a 27 year old actor from Alabama.” Well I’m...

January 28th, 2008 | Read More

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009) Movie Images Gallery

Plot: G.I. Joe is a highly trained, classified Special Operations Unit composed of men and woman from around the globe. Officially, these warriors don’t even exist. Few know the truth – that G.I. Joe fights a secret war, as the first and last line of defence against forces that seek to plunge...

January 20th, 2008 | Read More

G.I. Joe Movie Spoiler — Cobra Commander is Duke’s Best Friend?

The G.I. Joe stuff is coming in pretty regular now, with the movie gearing up for production soon. Even so, I was surprised to stumble across this little bit of SPOILER over at CHUD, which has the identity of Cobra Commander, and his past relation to G.I. Joe bigwig Duke. I’m marking this as SPOILER,...

January 14th, 2008 | Read More

G.I. Joe Producer Bonaventura Spills Some Details

The premise of this IESB article is that the writer is sitting at home one day when he gets a call from Paramount telling him that “G.I. Joe” (and before that, “Transformers”) producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura will be giving him a call. And he does, and they talk about “G.I....

January 8th, 2008 | Read More

Marlon Wayans and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Join G.I. Joe

Stephen Sommer’s “G.I. Joe” movie is getting bigger, adding Marlon Wayans (he of the 50 or so Wayans currently working in Hollywood) to his cast, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (last year’s “The Lookout”) currently in negotiations to do likewise. In the film, Wayans, primarily...

January 6th, 2008 | Read More

Rachel Nichols Confirmed, 2 More for G.I. Joe

It’s always a little funny to me when an Internet movie site breaks a casting story before the traditional mags such as Variety or The Hollywood Reporter, who you would think have infinite resources at their disposal. In any case, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed the addition of Rachel Nichols,...

December 20th, 2007 | Read More

Byung-Hun Lee is Storm Shadow, Rachel Nichols is Scarlett in G.I. Joe

Speaking of intriguing casting announcements. It’s been confirmed by IESB that South Korean movie star Byung-Hun Lee (”A Bittersweet Life” and the upcoming Josh Hartnett movie “I Come with the Rain”) will be playing none other than the ninja Storm Shadow in the upcoming...

December 19th, 2007 | Read More

Ray Park is Snake Eyes in G.I. Joe?

Yes, according to the boys over at SlashFilm who have “confirmed” the casting. Now I don’t know what kind of inside information or source the boys have, but if this ends up being true, it would certainly make a lot of fanboys happy. Ray Park is most famous for taking on two Jedis at...

December 4th, 2007 | Read More

Movie Trailer: Live-Action G.I. Joe

Just kidding. It’s not really the trailer for the upcoming “G.I. Joe” movie that Sienna Miller has just been cast in as the Baroness. It looks like a fan-made trailer for something called “War Machine” (I guess they didn’t want to use the trademark name), but even...

November 25th, 2007 | Read More

G.I. Joe Enlists Sienna Miller as The Baroness

After all the speculation about Jason Statham, Mark Wahlberg, and a host of other names playing big parts in the upcoming “G.I. Joe” movie, who would have thunk that it’d be British lass Sienna Miller who is the first actor to officially join the cast? Well it’s true. Variety...

November 20th, 2007 | Read More

Hasbro Fills in the G.I. Joe Movie Details

Apparently the fine folks over at Hasbro is sick and tired of the movie community speculating about what the G.I. Joe movie will be about, and with each speculation, it just seems to get worst and worst. As a result, Hasbro has decided to fill us in on what the movie WILL be about, and what it WON’T...

November 5th, 2007 | Read More