G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra may not have won any battles with audiences or critics when it was released in the summer of 2009, but that didn’t stop it from raking in an impressive worldwide box office gross of over $300 million. As far as Hollywood is concerned – that’s a victory.
When you consider the additional revenue garnered from home video sales and the endless array of merchandising tie-ins, it’s easy to see why Paramount promptly pushed G.I. Joe 2 into development. Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (Zombieland, Deadpool) were brought on board last year to write the screenplay and in August it was revealed that Stephen Sommers would return to the director’s chair.
Sommers was always a controversial choice amongst fans and he generally receives the lion’s share of the blame ...
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