The ‘G.I. Joe’ sequel just can’t catch a break. Despite an expensive ad campaign that featured commercial time during the Super Bowl, an imminent line of tie-in action figures and a scheduled release date barely a month away, studio bosses at Paramount have just pushed the movie back\u2026 to March of 2013. Seriously?! I suspect that Cobra Commander is behind this somehow.
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The road to ‘Retaliation’ has been a bumpy one. First off, there’s the obvious fact that the previous movie, ‘G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra<\/a>‘, is a steaming pile of shit. Regardless, it made enough money to justify a sequel. The prospect of that initially filled me with dread, but news that incompetent director Stephen Sommers had been canned<\/a> from the project, and that the screenwriters of the very fun ‘Zombieland<\/a>‘ had been hired to write it, left me perhaps cautiously optimistic. <\/p>\n Then came the bad news that block-of-wood Channing Tatum would return to star. On the other hand, new stars Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Bruce Frikkin’ Willis signed on and absorbed most of the spotlight away from Tatum. This is a good thing.<\/p>\n Next was the ambiguous announcement that the new director<\/a> would be Jon Chu, helmer of a couple of the ‘Step Up’ movies and the Justin Bieber concert film. That didn’t sound too promising. But then Chu gave some interviews which suggested that he isn’t a total idiot, that he thought the first movie kind of sucked, and that he may even know a thing or two about the ‘G.I. Joe’ franchise. At this point, I was at least tentatively back on board. <\/p>\n