‘G. I. Joe 3’ Writer Hails From ‘Lethal Weapon 4’
The G. I. Joe 3 writer has been chosen, and it’s the guy who wrote the scripts for Lethal Weapon 4, Snow White and the Huntsmen, and Shooter. If you’ve seen the previous films in the G. I. Joe series, you probably shouldn’t expect much in the way of story anyway. G. I. Joe films have been slammed by critics and long-time fans alike for being shallow and not sticking to the canon laid down by the 80s cartoon they’re based on.
It’s a not-so-well-known fact that script writers usually have to go through several drafts due to things like scenes being impossible to film within the allotted time frame. That causes the story to change if the scene dropped is important enough to the plot.
Much like the cartoons though, movies based on them are going more for eye-popping action, and you have to take the story with a grain of salt because the canon probably wouldn’t work on the big screen. The G. I. Joe 3 writer is faced with the task of continuing a story which broke the canon from the beginning. The second film tried to rework everything enough to allow certain major actors not to appear too out of place, and did it rather well. It looked more like the source material than the first movie did.
Now the third film has to work with the remaining Joes, with Dwayne Johnson‘s Roadblock being the central character this time, bringing back Adrianne Palicki as Lady Jaye, and introducing a new batch of characters from the past. As long as the story doesn’t involve Serpentor and get too far into the science fiction storyline that the first animated movie did, fans should have about the same reaction they usually do to Michael Bay’s Transformers films (entertaining enough to keep you in the seat).
Jonathan Lemkin is the man chosen as Paramount’s G. I. Joe 3 writer, and even though his past work isn’t exactly the greatest (Lethal Weapon 4 only boasts Jet Li as a high point), it isn’t like he’s remaking Citizen Kane.
This is an action movie loosely based on an 80s cartoon, not a potential Academy Award nominee. Adjust your expectations accordingly.
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