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yorrick brown
12-18-2007, 07:45 PM
byung-hun lee is storm shadow

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he kicked ass in a bittersweet life


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Asian movie star, Byung-Hun Lee, has been cast as Storm Shadow in Paramount Pictures’ GI JOE. He will be playing a character with a dark and complex history who is one of the most popular and enigmatic characters of the GI JOE universe. According to GI JOE lore, Storm Shadow was trained by the same Ninja master as Snake Eyes, a member of the elite GI JOE team, but now fights against him.

Stephen Somers will direct the live-action feature based on Hasbro's line of action figures. Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce with Hasbro chief operating officer Brian Goldner along with Sommers and his partner Bob Ducsay serving as producers as well. Hasbro's Goldner said that the mythology of G.I Joe was fleshed out during the 1980s through 155 issues of Marvel Comics, as well as an animated TV series. There are about 30 core characters, good and evil, that can be exploited in films.

Lee Byung-hun made his debut in 1991 starring in TV drama Asphalt My Hometown and has since become a widely known actor in Korea and many Asian countries.
He made his movie debut in 1995 with "Who Drives Me Mad?" Though quite popular already from his television work, his real breakthrough came in 2000 with movie "Joint Security Area." The movie, at that time, was the highest grossing film in Korean history. He then starred in "Bungee Jumping of Their Own" in early 2001. These 2 movies had won him multiple awards, including the prestigious Blue Dragon Award and Dae-jong Award. Other tv credits include Happy Together (1999) and Beautiful Life (2001), which were popular in Korea; and later on built his international fame when the dramas were shown in other Asian countries. He became one of the most talked about stars in Asia when he dated popular Korean actress Song Hye-kyo, his co-star in highly rated TV drama All In (2003). Their relationship ended in 2004. Lee’s later movie like Everybody Has Secrets (2004) and A Bittersweet Life (2005) were quite well received as well.

Having recently attended the Tokyo International Film Festival to promote his new romantic comedy, “Everybody Has Secrets,” Lee and his co-star Choi Ji-woo were swarmed by 300 photographers and 800 reporters at the press conference.

"Rachel Nichols has been cast as Scarlett in the big screen live-action adaptation of GI JOE. Scarlett is one of the original members of the GI JOE team, she is skilled in martial arts and hand-to-hand combat and specializes in counter-intelligence."


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they join ray parks as snake eyes and sienna millar as baroness

JJFlamingo
12-18-2007, 10:22 PM
Some good talent joining up here...

Lord Raiden
12-18-2007, 11:18 PM
This gets more promising with each new casting. God, I hope the script is good and they actually pull this off.

It'll be interesting to see who they get to play Duke, Cobra Commander, Destro and (hopefully) Zartan...

Larry121283
12-19-2007, 02:17 AM
I've always waited for a GI Joe Live Action film...too bad this one is going to be balls.

Sad. All they had to do is give us the Live Action version of GI Joe: The Movie and people would have eaten it up...

therealjohng
12-19-2007, 04:19 AM
They better fight giant insects in this, that's all I'm sayin.

yorrick brown
12-19-2007, 06:53 PM
The casting rumor mill is churning on 'G.I. Joe' today. The lastest scoop comes from Blackfilm.com, which reports that Marlon Wayans may be tipped to play Lamont Morris a.k.a. Heavy Duty in the upcoming feature.

Wayans is well known as part of the comedic Wayans family and has recently appeared in 'Norbit', 'Little Man' and the Coen Bros' 'The Ladykillers'.

therealjohng
12-19-2007, 07:23 PM
Jesus fucking Christ it's like studios want movies to suck these days.

Lord Raiden
12-19-2007, 08:17 PM
The casting rumor mill is churning on 'G.I. Joe' today. The lastest scoop comes from Blackfilm.com, which reports that Marlon Wayans may be tipped to play Lamont Morris a.k.a. Heavy Duty in the upcoming feature.

Wayans is well known as part of the comedic Wayans family and has recently appeared in 'Norbit', 'Little Man' and the Coen Bros' 'The Ladykillers'.

I knew I jinxed myself when I said they did a great job with the cast thus far. Marlon Wayans?! Come on. And Heavy Duty?! WTF?! Roadblock and Sgt. Stalker take precedence over Heavy Fuckin' Duty.
Good Christ in a bucket, I hope we're all just being punk'd.

yorrick brown
12-20-2007, 02:48 AM
from iesb

Wednesday, 19 December 2007
The cast for G.I. Joe is now almost complete, actors Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje and Said Taghmaoui have joined the spec-ops team.


Akinnuoye-Agbaje will play ordnance expert Heavy Duty and Taghmaoui (Kite Runner) will play the team's communications specialist code name Breaker.
Heavy Duty’s real name in the comics and cartoons was Lamont A. Morris and was from Chicago, Illinois. Breaker’s real name was Alvin R. Kibbey and was from Gatlinburg, Tennessee but all appearances are that some of the Joe’s origins may not stay canon and instead give us the global team that has been mentioned before.

Adewale and Said will join Ray Park (Snake Eyes), Sienna Miller (The Baroness), Byung-hun Lee (Storm Shadow) and Rachel Nichols (Scarlet). Sam Worthington might be playing Duke but the last we heard from the studio is that they are still waiting to hear if his schedule on Avatar will allow him a start date in February.

Stay tuned to the IESB for the latest Joe news!

ilovemovies
12-20-2007, 03:30 AM
Akinnuoye-Agbaje was awesome on Lost. And Nichols was great in P2 and especially on Alias.

I like Sienna Miller a lot, but can she handle action?

I barely remember the cartoon series as a kid though. Infact, I've pretty much forgotten it even though I use to watch it as a kid.

yorrick brown
12-20-2007, 03:36 AM
I like Sienna Miller a lot, but can she handle action?

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in the bedroom then HELL YES LOL.

yorrick brown
01-07-2008, 12:59 AM
Marlon Wayans and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Have Joined G.I. Joe.

Marlon Wayans will play Ripcord.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt character is unknown at the moment.

TheJadedGamer
01-07-2008, 01:44 AM
Joseph Gordon-Levitt? Hmm...I might have to see this after all.

KCJ506
01-07-2008, 04:45 AM
If there's one Wayans that needs to be in this movie it's Damon.

He has military experience.....that's right MAJOR PAYNE!