A casting call sheet posted by di Bonaventura Pictures on the acclaimed magazine ‘Production Weekly‘, now confirms several information from the upcoming movie G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes.

The posting (in its entirety) is as follows:

“G.I. JOE – SNAKE EYES” Feature Film

• DI BONAVENTURA PICTURES (5555 Melrose Avenue De Mille Building 2nd Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90038 PHONE: 323-956-5454 FAX: 323-862-2288)
• STATUS: Late-Spring 2019
• PRODUCER: Lorenzo Di Bonaventura, Brian Goldner
• WRITER: Evan Spiliotopoulos
• DIRECTOR: Robert Schwentke
• LINE PRODUCER: Jeff Waxman
• ALLSPARK PICTURES (2950 North Hollywood Way Suite 100, Burbank, CA 91504 818-478-4320)
• PARAMOUNT PICTURES (5555 Melrose Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038-3197 323-956-5000, paramount_careers@paramount.com)

Snake Eyes is a silent ninja commando who dresses in all black, never reveals his face, and doesn’t speak. He stands out among the military antiterrorist group and quickly establishes himself as the most popular. He has a special relationship with Scarlett, the team’s one-time only female member, and sometimes carries out solo missions with his pet wolf, Timber. His archenemy is Storm Shadow, a ninja who is also his blood brother.

(Scouting locations in Japan, Vancouver, and Los Angeles.)

News Post Image Courtesy: Jarreau Wimberly | G.I. Joe: Battlegrounds

From the same source which brought us the development info of the Snake Eyes project; weeks before the info officially got dumped to the internet, comes another minor reveal.

A title reveal poster for the upcoming movie, is currently being prepared for an undisclosed event.

The logo is said to feature the original ARAH G.I. Joe logo (minus any wording such as “A Real American Hero” or “International Hero”) instead of the previous movie version.

Underneath the name are the words “Snake Eyes” written in slithering, black, capital letters.

Judging by all the info we received, we speculate that the event is actually Toy Fair and the logo will be showcased inside Hasbro’s official booth.

Since history has a way of repeating itself, this news mirrors several news items done for the Bumblebee movie at our sister site TFW2005. Many months before the Bumblebee movie logo reveal, the logo popped up as a trademark registered under Hasbro. As 2017 came to an end, the ARAH logo resurfaced as a new trademark as well.

Since New York Toy Fair 2019 is just around the corner, it won’t be long until we get to see this new development.

Producer and Paramount Pictures President Wyck Godfrey is working on to bring back some life to the dormant G.I. Joe Live Action Movie Franchise.

“We have to make more movies and also movies that stand the test of time,” he continued. “We have no choice. It’s the only way.” Paramount hopes to make 17 movies in 2020.

Mr. Godfrey’s coming film lineup emphasizes big-budget, global-audience movies, known in Hollywood as tentpoles. A long-gestating “Top Gun” sequel is finally happening. Mr. Godfrey is working to breathe life into the tired “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “Terminator,” “Star Trek” and “G.I. Joe” franchises.

Mr. Godfery’s portfolio includes I, Robot, A Good Day To Die Hard, The Maze Runner Saga as well as the entire Twilight Saga. He was a long time producer and was hired as the President of Paramount Pictures back in late 2017. Mr. Godfrey will report to Jim Gianopulos (Chairman/CEO of Paramount Pictures) and oversee creative/development, casting, phsyical production, post production and music, according to the studio.

Wyck Godfrey is taking production duties of the Joe Franchise alongside Lorenzo di Bonaventura of di Bonaventura Pictures and Brian Goldner of Allspark Pictures.

As the first project, G.I. Joe: Snake Eyes is currently in development with a Spring 2019 filming schedule. The movie is slated to release on March 27th, 2020.

Former Transformers Creative Manager Rik Alvarez spoke to the attendees at TFcon 2018, to give details of an unused plot for the 4th Transformers Live Action Movie… and with it some tidbits from G. I. Joe: Retaliation.

According to Mr. Alvarez, TF4 story takes place following the events of DOTM where a group of Decepticons lived in exile under the guidance of Lockdown. The group, known as ‘The lords of deception‘, hunts and kills Ratchet (taking away his signature buzzsaw) as well as Robert Epps (played by Tyrese Gibson); allowing the latter to jump franchises to become Roadblock of G. I. Joe: Retaliation, until Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was brought into the cast of the second movie.

There would also be a joke in the movie alluding to Tyrese’s involvement with the Transformers Franchise where another would ask from Roadblock “Hey, weren’t you involved with that crazy robot war?“.

Rik also stated that Retaliation also featured the concept of  Flint as the head of G.I. Joe.

You can listen to the full description (from 4:55 to 5:55), below:

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