G.I. Joe gets a director.
Paramount has signed Sommers (director of the Mummy movies and Van Helsing) to helm what it hopes will become another hugely successful toy-based movie, à la Transformers: a live-action G.I. Joe. The new flick, which will begin production in February for a 2009 release date, presents G.I. Joe not as any particular war hero but as a high-tech, Brussels-based operative force — the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity — that does battle with evil organization Cobra. The movie is said to be closer in tone to X-Men and Bond flicks than a war film. Lorenzo di Bonaventura will produce, along with Hasbro chief operating officer Brian Goldner.
