The main villain is Destro, who runs a sinister arms organization called MARS and created nanotechnology capable of global destruction. Joe with his best friend and comic relief, Ripcord (Marlon Wayans). Joe: The Rise of Cobra ambitiously tells both the origin of Cobra and Cobra Commander seen through the eyes of Channing Tatum's Duke, who joins G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)ĭirected by Stephen Sommers, G.I. Related: Why Snake Eyes Reviews Are So Mixed 2.
Joe movie franchise for eight years, until Snake Eyes. It earned $122-million, less than its predecessor, which ended the G.I. Joe: Retaliation feels like a lesser sequel in every way. military organization instead of the international outfit it was in The Rise of Cobra. Joe: Retaliation and it comes off as a shell of its predecessor despite Dwayne Johnson's movie star presence and decent action. Arnold Vosloo also skipped Retaliation and is only seen in archival footage so that Jonathan Pryce plays both Zartan and the President. The obvious cost-cutting hurts G.I. Joe movie), while the major characters from the first film, including Christopher Eccleston as Destro, Rachel Nichols as Scarlett, Sienna Miller as the Baroness, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cobra Commander disappointingly did not return. Killing Duke and taking Tatum out of the movie set Johnson as the star of the franchise (and echoes the original decision of the animated G.I.
Joe: The Rise of Cobra managed to earn enough to get a sequel greenlit, but the scale of Retaliation was drastically reduced. Joe and Cobra's ninjas, Snake Eyes (Ray Park) and Storm Shadow (Byung-hun Lee), continues with the addition of a new heroic G.I. Joe's founder, General Joe Colton (Bruce Willis). Joe team is massacred by Cobra, including Duke (Channing Tatum), which leaves Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) to lead a handful of surviving Joes, including Lady Jaye (Adrianne Palicki) and Flint (D.J. The film picks up the previous movie's plot thread of Zartan (Arnold Vosloo) replacing the President of the United States (Jonathan Pryce) and furthering Cobra's takeover plans. Joe: Retaliation is both a sequel to and a soft reboot of G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)ĭirected by Jon M. Joe movies, here's which of the very different films is the best one.
Joe Origins, which they hoped will spark a new series of movies. Joe movies entirely, starting with Snake Eyes: G.I. Instead, Hasbro and Paramount opted to reboot G.I. Joe: Retaliation came close to matching Transformers, which spawned four sequels from 2009 to 2017, the 2018 spinoff Bumblebee starring Hailee Steinfeld, and the upcoming Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. However, neither of the two movies released, 2009's G.I. When Michael Bay turned Transformers into a billion-dollar movie franchise starting in 2007, Hasbro naturally tried to duplicate the robots in disguise's success with a G.I. Joe: The Movie introduced a supernatural and fantasy-based origin for Cobra and Cobra Commander that eroded Cobra's original concept as "a ruthless terrorist organization determined to rule the world." Joe: The Movie also had to alter its plans so that its main hero, Duke, survived, because of the reaction to Optimus Prime's death. Joe: The Movie being released on home video and on television instead. However, the poor performance of Transformers: The Movie, coupled with fan and parental backlash over the deaths of major Transformers characters, especially Optimus Prime, led to G.I. Joe: The Movie was intended for the big screen but production delays saw Transformers: The Movie beat it to theaters in 1986. Related: Transformers Movies Ranked Worst To BestĪn animated film titled G.I. Joe has been kept alive throughout the decades by nostalgia, more comics, and other animated revivals. Joe toys overwhelmed the market as the core audience of boys grew up towards the end of the 1980s but G.I. Cobra backstory and the histories of the dozens of characters was masterminded by Marvel Comics writer Larry Hama. Joe became a mega-successful series of toys with elaborate mythology told through comic books and a wildly popular animated series, G.I. In collaboration with Marvel Comics, G.I. Joe action figures existed in the 1970s, the franchise was completely rebooted by Hasbro in the 1980s.
Joe followed in the footsteps of Hasbro's other enduring ' 80s cartoon, Transformers, in leaping to the big screen but the Joes haven't had the same level of success as the alien robots saga overseen by Michael Bay. Joe in the 1980s love about the property. Joe Origins, although the series is a mixed bag that has yet to fully capture everything fans who grew up with G.I. Joe has had three live-action films theatrically released, which now includes Snake Eyes: G.I.