Joe characters and vehicles as they could into two hours but there is simply too much lore to do the franchise justice in one film. The Rise of Cobra boldly tried to cram as many G.I. Related: Snake Eyes' Ending Sets Up More Storm Shadow & G.I.
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Joe team, plus the master chameleon Zartan (Arnold Vosloo), while also incorporating the popular Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Storm Shadow (Byung-hun Lee) and their ninja history. In addition, The Rise of Cobra centered on Destro (Eccleston) as the main villain, had to introduce nearly a dozen members of the G.I.
Joe fans that Duke and the Baroness used to be engaged and her brother, Rex, was Duke's best friend who was believed dead but instead became a masked terrorist and founded Cobra. However, it was a tough pill to swallow for longtime G.I. The Rise of Cobra's solution was to consolidate Duke (Tatum), Baroness (Miller), and Cobra Commander's (Gordon-Levitt) origin so that they were all part of a love triangle that went awry and led to the creation of Cobra Command. Transformers, which also has dozens of robots in disguise, was comparatively easier because outside of Optimus Prime and Megatron, most of the Autobots and Deceptions don't have individual backstories, which is partly why human characters like Shia LaBoeuf's Sam Witwicky and Mark Wahlberg's Cade Yaeger were the movies' main characters. Joe boasts dozens of characters, all of whom have intricate backstories, plus their signature weapons and vehicles. Joe: The Rise of Cobra is a case study of the major challenges in translating the Joes and Cobra to the big screen.
Joe is tailor-made for television and Hasbro should abandon making movies to properly bring the Joes and Cobra to a streaming service. Joe's problems is on the small screen, which is where the military toy property achieved some of its greatest success in the 1980s. Joe's Scarlett (Sienna Miller) and Cobra's Baroness (Úrsula Corberó).
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Joe movie series off of Snake Eyes, which they already set up by introducing G.I. This is a serious blow to Hasbro's dreams of launching a new G.I. It's in doubt whether the reboot can earn back its $88-million budget. Unfortunately, Snake Eyes received mixed reviews and it only earned $13.3-million in its opening weekend. Joe movies until Hasbro tried again with 2021's Snake Eyes: G.I. Unfortunately, Retaliation earned less than The Rise of Cobra, which scuttled the G.I. Joe: Retaliation, which killed off most of the previous cast to make way for new lead characters Dwayne Johnson as Roadblock and Bruce Willis as General Joe Colton. But The Rise of Cobra did earn enough to merit a sequel, 2013's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, directed by Stephen Sommers and starring Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Marlon Wayans, Christopher Eccleston, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, didn't come close to matching Transformers' success despite its all-star cast. When Transformers became a hit, Hasbro naturally decided to bring G.I. In 2007, Michael Bay brought Transformers to the big screen, launching a multi-billion-dollar franchise that included 4 sequels, a Bumblebee spinoff starring Hailee Steinfeld, and soon, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. Joe was kept alive over the years through more comic books, animated series, and toy revivals but a live-action G.I. Joe: The Movie never made it to theaters and, by the end of the decade, as the core audience grew up, G.I. Joe and Cobra characters for Hasbro. The animated G.I. Joe was a hit Marvel Comics series written by Larry Hama, who masterminded the backstories of the G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, that aired five days a week and was religiously watched by kids (mainly boys). Hasbro's gigantic line of action figures, vehicles, and playsets was supported by a wildly popular cartoon, G.I. Joe was at the forefront of the 1980s toy boom.
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Joe's movie future in doubt when the answer to the Joes' woes is to return to their roots as a TV series.Īlong with Transformers and Masters of the Universe, G.I. Unfortunately, Snake Eyes failed to set the box office on fire, which leaves G.I. Joe and Cobra already exist and have been at war for decades. Starring Henry Golding, Snake Eyes not only reboots the eponymous black ninja commando's origin and rivalry with Storm Shadow (Andrew Koji) but also sets up a different universe where G.I. Joe Originsis the latest attempt to launch a movie franchise and its failures further illustrate why G.I.
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