Most of us know Danny McBride, the actor. The gruff, assured everyman who exhibits up and wreaks havoc. However McBride is additionally a really, very talented and successful writer, and one in all his next projects looks as if it’s going to be a dream come true.
Earlier this 12 months, news broke that McBride (author and creator of exhibits equivalent to Eastbound and Down and The Righteous Gems) was working on a G.I. Joe movie. Sure, the Hasbro franchise that bought its begin as the boys’ model of Barbie, before rising to fame in the Eighties as a toy line, cartoon, and comedian ebook. G.I. Joe has seen a couple of big-screen diversifications over the years, the most up-to-date being an unsuccessful Snake Eyes spinoff and a tantalizing tease at the end of the latest Transformers. However, apparently, McBride is doing one thing completely different than that, and he’s very, very enthusiastic about it.
Talking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, McBride talked about how the entire factor got here to be. “G.I. Joe was my factor once I was a child,” McBride mentioned. “I preferred that greater than Star Wars, greater than something. Like I cherished G.I. Joe. And I nonetheless have all the [toys].” Apparently, from that, McBride had the concept to do a by-product primarily based on an evil mercenary group from the Joe universe and truly pitched it to Paramount.
“I’ve all the time cherished [G.I. Joe, and so I had an idea for a Dreadnoks movie,” McBride said. “And I just wanted to do a Dreadnoks movie, and I went to Paramount and pitched it, and they were like, ‘Well, the franchise kind of needs to be launched, so we can’t come out with a Dreadnoks movie. Would you have an angle for G.I. Joe proper?’ And I was like, ‘Hell yeah, I’ll have an angle for that.”
So McBride sat down with some fellow Gemstones writers and figured it out. “We sat down, and we cracked something that we really love a lot,” he said. “Weirdly, it grounds G.I. Joe. It’s not a comedy. It’s kind of suspense and action, and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun.”
In terms of specifics, McBride only said that it was an ensemble movie that follows Duke and a group of Joes and is set in Springfield, a fictional town from the comics that is secretly all Cobra, the mortal enemies of G.I. Joe. “And we have some pretty interesting people lining up to be in it, too,” McBride said, “I don’t want to get ahead of myself, but it looks to be like it’s going to be pretty fun.”
Paramount is high on the project, he claims, and the plan is apparently for the film to shoot next year.
McBride did an excellent job finding an angle to bring Michael Myers and the Halloween franchise back recently, and while that series didn’t live up to the potential of its first installment, the ideas were there. Hopefully, the same goes for this, and we finally get a proper, good, G.I. Joe movie. Here’s McBride talking about the project on the podcast.
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