Hasbro have announced that G.I. JOE has begun shooting today and have confirmed that it will be one of two big Paramount tentpoles based on their toy franchises due out Summer 2009.

The other of course being TRANSFORMERS 2 but honestly, I’ll believe it when I see it. How a second movie can be ready to go already, especially with the WGA strike blocking any work over the past three months is beyond me.

So for the last time, a recap of the cast & crew on one of the biggest movies of 09…

G.I. JOE

Directed by Stephen Sommers (THE MUMMY, VAN HELSING)

Written by Stuart Beattie (COLLATERAL) & Skip Woods (HITMAN)

Larry Hama, the “Stan Lee” of G.I. JOE (he was the writer of the famous Marvel comic series of the character that really created this mythology and created several characters) is also on board as a creative consultant.

Plot:

The film will feature an international anti-terrorism task force based in New York (previously Brussels) called G.I. J.O.E, (a backronym for Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity), instead of the US-centric team featured in all previous incarnations in order to internationally market the film. The film will feature Destro and the Baroness as the main villains, the Dreadnoks as mercenaries and Cobra’s hired muscle, and Cobra Commander in a “puppet master” role. Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow’s rivalry will be one of the film’s main plot points. The film will take place ten years in the future.

Starring:

Channing Tatum … Duke

Sienna Miller … The Baroness

Joseph Gordon-Levitt … Cobra Commander

Dennis Quaid … General Hawk

Rachel Nichols … Shana ‘Scarlett’ O’Hara

Ray Park … Snake Eyes

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje … Heavy Duty

Marlon Wayans … Ripcord

Arnold Vosloo … Zartan

Saïd Taghmaoui … Breaker

Byung-hun Lee … Storm Shadow

David Murray … Destro

G.I. JOE will be released on August 7th 2009.

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