G.I Joe 2 moved to March 2013 - film conversion to 3D

[psylockolussus]

Originally Posted by gzilla46

So, it won't come out THIS year then.

Read the title of this thread.

[Hypestyle]

not sure what can really be "tweaked" with such a lengthy pushback- they would have to be doing extensive reshoots and changing the narrative entirely. At this point they could almost spin two movies out of this. Oh, well.

[psylockolussus]

Lets just hope for the best!

And I hope they will include Channing Tatum in the posters now because that might help the movie's box-office performance.

[Midnight Black]

As long as the posters reflect the movie....i.e. he is actually in it for more time than he was in the trailers lol.

[Kane52630]

Oh it's expected for him to be in the promotions a lot more, it's the main reason why the bumped the freakin released date.

[Lencho01]

Not much...

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayli...opics-20121004

RZA will also be seen in next spring’s “G.I. Joe: Retaliation” as the mysterious Blind Master. “I think I played that role pretty good,” he laughs. “I think the audience will dig seeing me pop up in the film. This character has never been seen. He’s been written about in the comics, but there’s nobody else that ever put a face on this character. And so I was allowed to do that. He’s blind, so how did he become blind? So I told them, put a scar across my face. Right across my eyes!”

[Midnight Black]

Yeah, well pushing the movie back better be worth it, then again it's not like I was that excited for the film lol. It will be nice to see the Rock and Bruce team up.

I always liked flint more than Duke growing up. His design looked cooler to me as a kid, but in this movie it looks like they are not giving him his due justice, hopefully that changes as well.

[ThePowerCosmic]

International Trailer

VIDEO-CLick to Watch!:

[psylockolussus]

The new trailer is nothing new.

I still hope that its going to be a good movie.

[Balthus Dire]

Still blows me away that they pushed this back so far. I was pretty stoked to see it this summer.

I really hope it doesn't suck or something.

[ThePowerCosmic]

My excitement for this movie pretty much died after news of the delay.

[Jake Cassidy]

My obsession with Adrianne Palicki helps.

[Brian Braddock]

Originally Posted by ThePowerCosmic

My excitement for this movie pretty much died after news of the delay.

I pretty much felt the same way too but watching that International trailer has reminded me that I still want to see the thing.

[psylockolussus]

Yeah but I'm not as excited as I was this summer of 2012.

[LostSon88]

Same. The delay kinda killed it for me...

Now I'm just 'meh' towards the thing.

[Hypestyle]

the new running time had better be 2+ hours..

what about-- Flint, Beachhead, Alpine, Bazooka, Grunt, Crankcase..

[Lencho01]

http://collider.com/gi-joe-2-retalia...entura/210230/

Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura Talks 3D Conversion of G.I. JOE: RETALIATION; Teases Snake Eyes/Storm Shadow Fight That’s “Perfect” for 3D

by Adam Chitwood Posted: November 11th, 2012 at 11:01 am


This past summer wasn’t exactly lacking in blockbuster material, but many will remember that it was originally supposed to have one more actioner on tap: the sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation. With its release date a little over a month away, Paramount abruptly pushed the film’s release date back a whopping nine months. The official reason given for the move was that they wanted to post-convert the pic to 3D, but many surmised that the reshoots were being done to un-kill the suddenly popular Channing Tatum.

Steve recently spoke with producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura about a number of upcoming projects (read what he had to say about Red 2 right here), and during their conversation, di Bonaventura talked about the nature of the 3D conversion of G.I. Joe, the last-minute release date change, and more. Hit the jump to see what he had to say.


Di Bonaventura began by talking about the advances in 3D conversion technology:

“We learned a lot about 3D—I personally learned a lot about 3D in Transformers. The conversion part of the 3D process is night and day, you know, every three, four months it’s better than it was before. It’s amazing how fast that thing has changes. And originally we didn’t really have the time or the resources to try to figure out how to shoot it in 3D in the time frame that we were originally talking about, you know, starting in August and releasing in June. So this delay has allowed us to go at it now.”

The producer also said that many of director Jon M. Chu’s sequences lend themselves well to the format:

“Jon [Chu] has some sequences that are really, there’s a phenomenal—for G.I. Joe fans it’s going to be one of the really great scenes for them, because there’s a fight between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow in a hallway that is so perfect for 3D I can’t tell you. It’s going to be like one of the coolest fights ever in 3D, because there’s so much about it that’s dynamic. That’s going to be really fun. And you know people have seen bits and pieces of the Himalayan sort of rock climbing thing, it’s almost 3D without having turned into 3D, so I can’t wait to see that. That one’s going to be like what the hell?”

Di Bonaventura also talked about his reaction to Paramount’s last-minute decision to delay the pic’s release:

“When you’re planning yourself all towards one direction, you know, you definitely go, ‘Whoa, what the hell?’ But the second—here’s a sort of simple way for me to look at things: if the studio wants to spend money on making your movie better, let them… I find it hilarious when people fight that, you know? I’m like, ‘Great, you want to spend a lot of money and try to make our movie a bigger success? Okay! That sounds good.’ And Jon got that too. The first moment you’re sort of going, “Whoa! Uhhh, wait.’ Then you realize, ‘Oh okay, great, let’s do that.’”

Look for Steve’s full interview with di Bonaventura soon.

[Filmboy]

Judging from the new trailer and the new poster, so the reshoots means Duke will have a larger part?

[Brian Braddock]

New trailer looks great and [Iknow I may be in the minority here] I'm still looking forward to the movie.

[gkokujin]

i lost all momentum for this movie thanks to them pushing it back.

[Kane52630]

Yeah I also lost all momentum but I'm still looking forward to it.

[Midnight Black]

I may go see it if they actually have Cobra Commander as Cobra Commander lol.

[Brian Braddock]

Originally Posted by gkokujin

i lost all momentum for this movie thanks to them pushing it back.

Which makes zero sense to me - if a movie looks good enough to initially make you want to see it, it's release date shouldnt matter. Either it looks good or it doesnt.

[Midnight Black]

Sometimes it can be a turnoff though getting expectations up only to be let down. Yeah the movie is coming out but seeing trailers and commercials for it a month before the release only for it to be pushed back a whole year later is kind of a wtf moment.