All eyes are on Paramount-Skydance after the seismic information on Thursday that it received out in its bid over Netflix to purchase Warner Bros. Discovery. So what does the studio have within the works on the movie aspect? Among the many IP that Paramount is trying to mine is “G.I. Joe,” and a curious identify is lined as much as submit a draft for a brand new movie: Max Landis.
Landis, the son of “The Blues Brothers” director John Landis, is the author of the discovered footage film “Chronicle” and the Will Smith fantasy film “Vivid,” however is best identified for having been accused of emotional and sexual abuse again in 2019derailing his profession. Eight girls accused Landis in a report in The Every day Beast that led to him being dropped by his administration firm, to being disavowed by considered one of his movie’s administrators, and to a different venture falling aside.
Sources advised IndieWire that Landis is writing a therapy for a “G.I. Joe” movie on the studio, which final hit the display screen again in 2021 with the spinoff motion film “Snake Eyes” starring Henry Golding. However Landis isn’t the one one looking for a approach into the IP. “The Righteous Gem stones” star Danny McBride can also be in talks to write down a very separate therapy primarily based on the “G.I. Joe” characters.
Each initiatives are merely remedies in deep improvement at this stage, and whereas there’s the chance it makes simply one of many scripts into a movie and even each of them, it’s simply as possible Paramount finally ends up making neither.
The primary two live-action “G.I. Joe” films starring Channing Tatum from 2009 and 2013 every surpassed $300 million on the field workplace and have been respectable hits for Paramount, however “Snake Eyes” suffered from the pandemic and made simply $40 million worldwide.
At one level, there was speak that “Transformers” may do a crossover movie with “G.I. Joe,” however that by no means materialized past a post-credits scene, although Lorenzo di Bonaventura is a producer on each franchises and Paramount-Skydance will definitely be trying to revitalize the “Transformers” IP as effectively.
The Hollywood Reporter first reported that Landis was writing the therapy.