What you see above you is a leaked photo of Dennis Quaid as General Hawk from the forthcoming G.I. Joe movie, and I must say, he looks very much like the Flint of my youth, but he’s General Hawk. It got me pretty excited. We’d seen Snake-eyes before, and he’s badass indeed. Then I saw Marlon Wayans as Ripcord and Rachel Nichols as Scarlet, and I got really excited, they look excellent. But what about the rest of the cast?
Hit the jump to see The Baroness, Storm Shadow, Covergirl, and (sigh) Duke. I’m not that excited anymore.
I was afraid of this. Paramount’s legal guys emailed us, forcing us to remove the images. Hope you all got to see them before they got pulled.
This is starting to smell of an under-budgeted sifi channel “event” that will be brought to you by GameTap and either Oxy-10 or Clearasil.
Storm shadow looks stupid! is he wearing a pair of white adidas?
“Leaked.” Uh huh. And I think the dude playing Duke previously starred in Buttman 43.
How would you know that, do you watch gay porn flicks?
Uh…The Buttman movies aren’t gay films, you dumbass.
Covergirl? For Softball & Bandana magazine?
Coming this fall, Stargate SG-duh
caption under marlon wayans should read.. ‘Before I head out for a hard day fighting terrorists, I make sure to use Tucks medicated pads’
This looks terrible. Soooooo corny. And how is Snake Eyes supposed to look badass in his black outfit and mask when everyone is wearing a black outfit?
I think this could possibly be worse than transformers…
Lame. Snake Eyes did get me excited, but Storm Shadow, with his silly ass jacket, his face showing and non all ninja-ed out, and his ridiculous sneakers singlehandedly just killed it for me.
I don’t understand why everyone acts like the GI Joe movie has such high standards to live by. The cartoon was fun, but not exactly Akira and it’s a line of toys that goes back forever. What about any of this means that the movie has to rival The Godfather?
I’m looking forward to seeing some ass-kicking and some bad dialogue and maybe some sort of Public Service Announcement.
Why is it that most people find time to express their disliking on projects like this?
You don’t like it, you don’t go and see the movie, period. That´s the American Way!!!
And don’t get all “It should be done like this” because neither of you made any attempts yet to make a better movie.
Oh, yeah, also… This is a movie about a cartoon… It will not be the greatest film ever in the history of cinema, so your expectations should be lowered (this doesn´t mean by any chance that the movie might not rock)…
I wanna see Destro!!!!
So…
We complain about a movie, and we’re all stupidheads.
You complain about us complaining about a movie… what does that make you?
Voices of reason.
No.. . More like stupidheads. :)
It makes this person someone who thinks outside the box peewee…
To be honest…i am just bored before i have to start cleaning my house, and i like to read people’s complaints b/c it shows that there are so many points of view that no one will ever be satisfied with any movie that is adapted from a Cartoon or comic book b/c they didn’t think of it first.
I noticed how far the intellect can go when the only insult you can create is Stupid head (Which is two words) what are you twelve? Act like an adult and call people like me Morons or jerks or even…Assmunches.
I agree Rick…100%
So Mike, you have ntothing BETTER to do than act like a ASSMUNCH because the only thing you look forward to is “Cleaning House and complaining about Movies”?
Yeah you are an ass munch. And you do seem like 12 years old
And my sincere apology to Mike I just realized that you were telling the morons to stop complaining about the movie before seeing it and think OUTSIDE the box like some others had said.
Please forgive an assmunch like me.
Sorry Dude
Too. Much. Black.
I mean, yes, things need to be changed, but, what is wrong with the normal OD that your military types would be wearing?
Marlon Wayans?!?
I can’t think of what else to say. Can the Hollywood writers go back on strike, please?
It doesn’t look cool… that’s the first thing that strikes you. G.I. Joe, huh… well that ain’t the hulk or luke cage…. whatever!
Excellent? This cast blooooows.
This movie will be worse than Street Fighter.
It won’t be the first time a comic book movie sucked. Most of them do, of course, simply because they are trying to make them for everybody. Spiderman’s girlfriend is called Mary Jane (Weed) for a reason. Spiderman isn’t about some chick he may or may not marry. Boring! He’s about fighting cool monsters and the hulk or something juvenille… If I want my ‘heart strings’ tugged I’ll watch Oprah or Dr. Phil, which is where American’s shed their tears!
Yippy, Sigma 6 the movie. Just what we needed. (Sarcasm).
Storm Shadow has potential, as does snake eyes, but the rest of the cast and those suits have got to go. Seriously, Marlon Wayans? I expect his movie to be campy, but this looks like street fighter camp (BAD!) not Captain America 80s camp (GOOD!). Here’s hoping CC, Destro, and a future Serpentor all make up for it, or they at least have an old school sgt savage cameo.
Please note that if you could actually read you’d see that the title says the Rise of Cobra, which means the beginning of Cobra. If you think that Serpentor will be in this it just goes to show how much of a fan you really are. Serpentor did not come along as a thought until episode 164, as per a creation of Dr. Mindbender from the multple DNA’s of great warlords and military strategists. I will even go as geeky as saying that Serpentor was even supposed to receive DNA from Sgt. Slaughter until he put that to an End. You may think i have no life b/c i know this, but you can forget that. I have a Wife, and she gives plenty of loving. I am just a geek b/c i choose to be. I can’t wait to see this movie, but what i really can’t wait for is for when all the critics start slamming this movie i would like to know why they would make a better movie, and why they didn’t do it in the first place. My thoughts are if you can’t put up then shut up.
Yes, because it surely looks like they are following comic book canon.
I’m thinking these black outfits are likely / hopefully just their outfits for a particular mission in the movie…..I’m still hopeful that in the rest of the movie, we will still see their original outfits. We’ll see…..
THIS IS A TRAVESTY.You have DESTROYED my childhood.The Baroness has me exicted, however this is not a film about a mere SWATeam.
All costumes should remain true to cartoons/action figures. From Bazooka’s open chested navy outfit(a la village people), to Sergent Slaughter big ass chin! Please reconsider costumes or i will start a boycott campaign. YO JOE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You mean Gung-Ho, not Bazooka. -_-
Its just amazing that you know how to spell travesty.
Oh, I thought that was the Baroness until I noticed the crossbow. She’d be the one with the slightly darker hair then? Well, I’ve got to go dig a grave for my anticipation.
The black costumes do have to go but I do not know why you all is hating on Marlon Wayans for, someone has to be the comic relief in the movie… If anyone needs to be talked about its Channing Tatum because when did Duke look like a kid straight out of high school
Well, thank goodness you “voices of reason” are wasting time on this stupid cartoon movie forum setting all us nerds straight instead of using your infinite wisdom to effect real change in the world. That would be truly scary.
Movie studios always say they have to make things more realistic or else modern audiences won’t buy it. Explain Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter and all the other unrealistic yet highly popular movies.
Movie studios say that fans are only a small minority and that changes must be made to appeal to the broader audience who doesn’t know the property. In that case, why bother adapting the property? You’re not going to get anything from name recognition if the target audience doesn’t recognize it and the fans apparently aren’t worth concern to begin with. You could call this movie Death Strike 2000 and no one would know.
It all boils down to corporate focus groups and Hollywood’s ever increasing lack of imagination.
Also, it might be a toy/comic/cartoon movie but that doesn’t mean there’s not a good story to be mined from it. And there’s no difference between these fans not liking certain changes and the complaints you no doubt make when your favorite pretentious novel gets adapted and no longer resembles the source. For Pete’s sake, I’ve heard college professors complain about how inaccurate Hercules: the Legendary Journeys was because it was feeding children false information on the myth!
Looks like they brought back “Space: Above and Beyond.”
I don’t want to complain, but I don’t understand why they would have to do the “Batman/X-men” costumes. Give them real-world clothes and make sure the story is strong. I’ll probably still see this when it comes out, but I don’t know if I am as excited anymore.
The guys on the TV show Dallas SWAT look more bad-*ss
I WILL NOT see this turd of a movie. The cast and design suck all the way. GI Joe had so much potential to be a bad-ass super-action flick. First Transformers, now this. Stop ruining my childhood already.
Up yours Hollywood.
You know when I designed these G.I.Joes back in 1982 I was thinking that they would remain the same for years. And when I saw these images of my Joe figures on this page I was a little disappointed. I don’t even know why Hasbro Toys even let the studios do this to these Joes and take them out of context for what they are?
I recently went to a G.I.Joe convention in Dallas ,Texas and talked with many G.I.Joe collectors and most of them are disappointed in what the studios have done to one of the most beloved figures in the world. I mean Duke looks like a little kid compared to what he is supposed to be, Storm Shadow and that rediculous coat and his face showing, whats up with that? Both Scarlet and Baroness are supposed to be Sexy, thats the way I intended them to be, yet strong, fearsome and independant woman.
I think the studios got it all wrong on this one, they probably say that this is artistic license? Well I call it Bull. You can’t change G.I.Joe and people will not except this image you have created.. Any way thats how I see it.
Yo Joe! OO-ra!!
I was with you right up until ‘Both Scarlet and Baroness are supposed to be Sexy,’
I can’t be the only person who at least finds the revamp of Scarlett and Baroness sexy. I might not like the change in design, but, they are at least sexy.
What is everyone getting bent out of shape for? None of us have even seen the trailer yet; all we’ve seen are photos. I’ve been a fan of G.I.Joe since 1982, and I’ll wait until I see a trailer and the film before passing judgement. EVERYONE RELAX!
I agree with just about everything that everyone else has said. If the Joe licensees had had any balls to begin with, they would have flipped the bird to the studio the second there was any mention of “changing the story to fit the current global political atmosphere.” Swivel on it, studio execs. Swivel until you squeal like pigs on a honeymoon!
It would not have been hard to make everyone look realistic and still fit the images that we grew up with.
You you…… you have no idea how bad your movie is going, I live in cancun mexico and even here we think the costumes look stupid, fixed man, we are waiting to see something like iron man, hell boy etc, not Swat, cmon pick up the ball talk to Larry.
This is a real joke. I’m a die hard GI Joe Fan, I’ve seen many incarnations of GI joe cartoons from the original GI Joe to GI Joe Extreme and I must say that this is an true insult to the GI Joe name. First of all where are all of the original Joes like Quick Kick, Grid Iron, Sky Dive, Lt Stone, Low Ligh, Black Dragon, Lady Jaye, Road Block, Dusty, Jinx, Gung Ho,
Lt. Falcon, Sgt Savage, Ambush, Alpine, Bazooka and the all time favorite Sgt Slaughter and so many more Joes that are absent from this film. And what’s up with these shitty looking costumes. GI Joes were American Military Special Forces therefore they’re supposed to have military outfits on but what the hell is this ? They’ve completely ruined the image of the characters. Duke looks too young (Duke is supposed to be in his late 30’s early 40’s), General Hawk is actually much younger and looks more fierce, Scarlett looks like crap and Cover Gil looks like a cheap porn star. Storm Shadow looks like a gay pimp. I will shoot myself before going to see this film. This is not worthy of the GI Joe name.
Uhhhh….
You call yourself a die hard GI Joe fan, but, half of those “original” GI Joe’s … well… *aren’t*. They all came into being well into the toy/comic run. The RAH toys started in 1982, as did the comic book. The first five episode mini-series cartoon was 1983, with the good old mass device. Of the characters you listed, only Gung-Ho was in it. Bazooka wasn’t, probably because he was an extremely boring figure.
Hell, you can’t call Sgt. Slaughter an original GI Joe character either considering he’s a real world person implanted into the cartoon.
Die hard my sweet patootie.
…and now you pat your own back.
You are definitely not a real GI Joe fan, you should just shoot yourself, but i wouldn’t recommend it, because you won’t be able to regret it later. Lt Falcon didn’t even show up till the first GI Joe movie which was animated.
And one more thing, please remember that the GI Joe in the 80’s was created to launch a toy line, and that GI Joe was out long before you and I were even thoughts in our parents brains.
Can we say ” Splinter Cell Make Over”??
Come on guys let the Joes BE the Joes.
Well, yeah, but so what?
g i goe was a fag.
You know i am a very big GI Joe fan, but i must admire this person’s comment, because he is doing the only thing right out of all of us nerds and geeks who complain about other peoples creations. He kept it short and to the point and expressed his opinion without going any further.
By the way in Normal American English Joe is spelled with a ” J.”
storm shadow does wear a mask in the movie just so you know,i think he just took it off for the photo opp.but this movie looks awful,how can you have the needle dick from 3rd rock from the son as cobra commander.screw tatum they have the geek from 10 things i hate about you as cobra commander.i dont get why hollywood loves to ruin things that were great.iron man and the batman begins/dark night.were the only three action movies that i enjoyed from start to finish.this is going to be an abortion of my childhood when this flop comes out
You know that is very low to start assuming that Cobra commander is going to suck when you haven’t even seen him.
I have a question for you, how can you abort your childhood when it has already happened? Are you going to go back in time Doc Brown?
The topic is quite curious, i must say
What better way to fight evil then with all white K-Swiss.
LOL right? *nods head*
I have to admit. I was never a big G.I. Joe fan, but that’s because the toys were inaccessible for me as a kid. I did watch the toons though and liked em all right.
These film images does not remind me of G.I.Joe at all. But I’m not the least bit surprised.
People today have no passion for their craft. This movie is being made for money and more toys to support a really crappy toy company.
It’s not for Joe fans to fall in love with. This is just a cheap attempt with no passion, no glory.
Crap. A waste of time. And for those voices of reason… listen.. we want QUALITY. IN ANYTHING. Let it be Pokemon or The God Father, don’t screw us because you have a lack of imagination to make even the wildest concepts work with wonderful quality work.
“Dumbing” down a film because the producers didn’t want to put their heart into it is like saying “the movie audience ain’t worth my effort to try and make this film an oscar winner”. And that negative outlook already made a loser out of everyone who’s involved in this film. Second, this is the land of the free. We can say the pics blow if we damn well please.
IMHO. ;-]
I forgot to add… the two ladies in their dark suits (red head and brunette, im assuming Lady Jane and Baroness?) ARE GORGEOUS!!! ;-]
I would like to know why people keep spelling certain nouns wrong. True i don’t have the greatest grammar in the world, but this guy just defaced one of the greatest movies of all time by spelling its name wrong. GODFATHER is one word. STORM SHADOW is two words (This referencing a couple comments down.)
Plus don’t forget this “crappy toy company” were the one’s that helped create the cartoons you watched as a kid instead of doing your spelling homework.
For the geeky question… the redhead is Scarlet, you must of missed a couple of episodes staying after school, because you didn’t do your homework.
Why is Marlon Wayans playing Ripcord? Why not Stalker instead? Ripcord was anything but cool.
Stormshadow wearing white sneakers…I’m gonna go cry now.
So when’s the DVD release date? This has rental written all over it.
I once heard somebody say that Transformers had rental written all over it. Well the applause in the theater after i left and all of Michael Bay’s money says otherwise, oh and the Oscar Nomination for best cinematography also says otherwise.
Jeeze, you guys! this is the same as they did for X-Men and they were good, it would look reallt fuckin stupid if they were in the same costumes as the comics, because people in the army don’t were that type of stuff, and for a movie it has to look more up to date, plus the film is set ten years in the future so they have to make things look more modern than than do in 80’s comic books!
For all the people that seem pissed about this….I have one question for you, Why?
Whether its a bad movie or not….why waist your thought process on something this mundane. Either go to the movie or not. I just stumbled upon this site because i wanted to waist some time, and i heard about this movie, so i searched it on google.
I mean yeah Snake Eyes looks cool, but who else but Ray Park can play that part. To be honest it looks like a cool movie to go see for the sake of our 80’s childhood, but don’t get all pissed off about it, like so many people did with Transformers. THEY ARE JUST MOVIES!!!
You want gold rent Citizen Kane or Godfather, if you want something else and you like corny movies go see Paul Blart, it was funny, but not oscar worthy.
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy trash talking hours to read this comment.
Thank you
I kinda like the fact that you can see stormshadow’s face, it lets them show that hes asian. its bad enough that the coolest ninja in the story(and maybe history) isnt even japanese. also they are gonna put baroness in glasses right?
How is it bad that snake eyes isn’t Asian? If i remember right i don’t think he was Asian in his back story. Him and Storm Shadow had the same sensei that’s all, and yes baroness will be in glasses, i don’t think the movie business would intentionally try to deface the characters like that. I mean Snake eyes has the same face plate he had in the first animated movie. Let’s give the movie company a little credit.
Um… where’s Sgt. Slaughter?
He’s over the hill, true he is one of the most liked characters in GI Joe, but only one man could play that memorable voice, and he doesn’t look like the slaughter of old. They might put him in to do a cameo though…you never know.
Storm Shadow doesn’t look intimidating. He looks like he should be doing my taxes.
Look at his wrists! He’s wearing braces. Storm Shadow has Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
How can a bad-ass ninja assassin swing a sword with CPS?!?
I was excited, but after seeing this, I’m really turned off. It looks totally lame. The expressions on all their faces is ridiculous. Especially Quaid’s. He looks constipated, not tough.
Also, the reason people post their complaints, as well as likes is because they hope someone will listen. It’s like a freebie. “Hey before you make this crappy movie, here’s a few things you may want to reconsider.” If no one complains, they would actually think they have something good here. If you’re going to try and make money by bringing something to the screen, then at least try and do it justice and don’t just toss some pretty faces and cheap costumes at it.
Storm Shadow’s shoes are absolutely insane. They couldn’t find something more ninja-like or military-like? He looks like a bad cut-scene from a Final Fantasy game.
It’s just one pic only but judging from his looks, he won’t even have a “bad cut-scene” rating if it’s based on FF standards. c”,)
Even if people from the movie studio did read your little complaints they wouldn’t care, unless you were giving them a couple million to keep them from making it.
Are you really going to watch this whole movie staring at storm shadow’s shoes, or paying attention to the movie’s plot line.
YO SO FINE CHANNINGGGGG YEEEE hahahah
Instead’ve Marlin Wayne’s playing Ripcord why couldn’t they have him playing a joe name Stalker that would be better for him,
I agree
Reason why Marlin is playing Ripcord instead of Stalker, you ask?…Simple, they don’t do research or are trying to do something “clever”… Either way, it’s an epic fail.
And dropping “an american hero” is weak. *sigh* Bending over ’cause they think it’ll hurt sales…pffft. whatever. Grow some, Hollywood.
I agree that the casting for the movie went a little weak yet they did sort of make up for it casting Ray Park as Snake Eyes, but the drop of a “American Hero was not a production decision it was a corporate decision. Exactly why our economy is weak right now, because of stupid corporations.
Again don’t call it a fail until you have seen it.
OMG… they ruined perhaps the most coolest bad guy ninja of all time in storm shadow…
seriously hollywood, how hard is it to freakin just copy storm shadow’s costume on action figures that have been out for decades?
wouldn’t it have been cool if hollywood had the balls to do Gi-Joe with a dark edge (ala Dark Knight) to it? It would have been epic
instead they went all street fighter on us…
1st- Storm Shadow had several types of costumes on his toys…look it up
2nd- You can’t make it like Dark Knight because that is 2 different genres, and Kids still want to see it.
3rd-I don’t remember a Gorgeous red head and a hot raven haired spy in Street Fighter. Unless you thought Blanka was hot.
I humped an elephant once.
you must be very tall…
listen, all of you will probably see the movie and like it. so stop talking smack, change your tampons, and shut up. the movie looks half decent,and i’ve been watching/drawing GI JOE almost all my life the costumes are lacking, but other than that as well as the lack in characters, i’d watch it on bootleg, once
YO JOE….bitches
Hello all
I hope you all realize that this is just a movie and that it should have no effect on your childhood because your childhood has already happened. It only effects your childhood if you completely forget your childhood and replace it with one of negativity. I think this movie will be good. i believe the last good think tank of original movies should come from 80’s cartoons and TV Show, but i also believe they’re should be limits of course. One reason why you can’t all the characters in their original outfits is because some of them wouldn’t make sense to move the movie along. Hell any movie director knows that. Secondly, if you do make the movie 100% accurate to the cartoon, you will get a movie as bad as Speed Racer, in which i don’t mean to completely knock. Speed racer was a well made movie but it was made by extreme Speed racer geeks who wanted to match everything part for part. Which made it dull as a movie. In order for a 80’s cartoon to be good as a movie you do have to change certain aspects. So stop berating a movie that you haven’t even seen yet, because you have no room to talk. To be completely honest maybe all this Bull that people say on the internet make filmmakers scared to make a decent movie b/c they are afraid of upsetting the fans of that particular genre. Like i said in my one reply, don’t knock it unless you put up or shut up.
I do apologize for my bad grammar. Please overlook it.
Thank you
Does anyone think that maybe these photos might have been released to get an idea on how we’d react on them?
I mean it is May now and i have seen some nice trailers and some nice shots of the characters that are a great deal better than the ones that are being shown on the website.
OMG Channing taum is the sexiest peice of crap i have ever seen i think that he is the hottest guy in the whole entire world hands down im mean hes hotter than all those other guys and when i watched summers sexiest stars i was so ticked off becasue he wasnt # 1 he is way hotter than johnny depp and hugh jackman hands down
omggg channing is sooo hottttt