Polygon sat down with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura to talk a bit about the past and the future of the G.I. Joe Live Action Movie Franchise.
Q: How long have you been talking about doing the Snake Eyes movie? I’m sure ideas have changed over the years.
Whenever we brought it up, the thing that kept coming up was the origin story of Snake and Storm because it was so interesting and chock full of emotion. Brotherhood, betrayal, all the things that make really great drama — it has that in its story. It’s a very Cain and Abel thing. We talked about many things, but it always came back to that pretty quickly because it was so rich and so elemental.
Q: What does a G.I. Joe movie need to have to be a G.I. Joe movie? The original Joe movies were very soldier-centric, but you get away from that here.
I don’t think of this as a Joe movie. I really do think of as a Snake movie. The reason we chose Snake Eyes was because we were able to make such a specific, tonal reference, whether it’s a samurai movie or a Kung Fu movie, and so I think of it more in those terms, this particular movie. It is really about a journey into a mystical land. That really appealed to me. Many years ago, I did the movie The Last Samurai when I was at Warner Brothers; the exploration of the Japanese culture, I find kind of fascinating to begin with. It’s such a different culture, to state the obvious. But there’s so much to be found there that makes you reflect on your own culture. So I think that’s the benefit of having been driven there by a Cain and Abel story.
Q: Where do you hope the Joe franchise goes from here? Do you hope to follow Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow? Is it possible we’ll see other flavors of Joe movies?
It’s not preordained. I think there’s different ways we can go. One way, for sure, and we’re having discussions about it, is how do you keep sort of the spine of this relationship that we’ve developed? This antagonistic relationship? Is there a way to fuse that into a larger Joe movie so that maybe it’s one storyline? Maybe it’s the main storyline. So it’s not clear yet what we’re going to decide on doing. The hard part right now, honestly, is we’re not sure what success means right now, given the Delta variant and the theater problems.
You can check out the full interview at Polygon.
SilverOptimus says
News Post: Lorenzo di Bonaventura Talks About The Future Of The G.I. Joe Live Action Movie Franchise
J James says
Dang, man. Blames it on a virus. Admits they don't have a plan. No idea what the next films look like or how they incorporate the plot from this one.
Am I shocked? No. This was an agenda driven film.
sevenlima says
Future failures ahead.
TheVileOne says
Fire him from GI Joe. Enough's enough.
Dust Viper says
Bring on Spin-Vipers !!!!
pankratiast says
Is he in some type of bubble to not be noticing the reviews? It reminds me of Kevin Bacon in Animal House screaming, “Stay calm. Everything is fine!” just before he is trampled by the crowd running away (as they are from this movie).
Drfaireborn says
Although I enjoy Japanese culture and did enjoy The Last samurai, it was unfair to take a hold of two established Joeverse characters and change things and insert your own interest/story telling, or whatever, to make it what you want it to be. Especially without a plan. Make your own brother ninja movie with new characters.
AWOL says
They need to throw piles of cash at the Russo brothers.
mikedanger says
I will just continue to watch Mission Impossible movies and pretend they are all GI Joe characters.
AWOL says
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