Paramount production start dates…

GI JOE  Feb 8, 2008  Just like I didn’t watch Transformers, I didn’t watch GI Joe.  However, if the Joe movie is as good (for what it was) as Transformers was, there’s no reason it couldn’t be similarly successful.  On the other hand, the group is now based in Brussels (!), presumably because of fears that the film would be ‘jingoistic’ if it were still about an American team.  So much for “A real American hero,” eh?  And directed by Steven “Van Helsing” Sommers?  Ugh. 

DON READY LIKES CARS 3-Dec 3, 2007  Couldn’t find any info, although it was formally called “Clay Hujko Likes Cars”

HOBSON’S CHOICE (NDA) Again, no info.

MORNING GLORY March  Comedy set in a failing New York network morning show.

STAR TREK November 7th  J.J. Abrams revamp of the original crew, wtih all new and somewhat younger actors.

UNTITLED WAYANS BROTHERS  PROJECT  Or, as I like to call it, UNSEEN WAYAN BROTHERS PROJECT.

  • Ericb

    My G.I. Joe was a foot tall, had a fuzzy beard and kung fu grip. None of that Cobra crap. My older brother’s G.I. Joe was even more hardcore. His hands were permanently sculpted to hold a rifle and he had only one outfit and that outfit was olive drab and that’s the fact jack.

  • fish eye no miko

    Ericb

    None of that Cobra crap.

    Meh, I always liked the Cobra characters better. They had cool powers and stuff.
    Hugh Jackman should play Zartan. ^_^

  • Now you know. And knowing is half the battle!

  • Ericb

    I was just joking, playing the grumpy old fart. I haven’t even seen the 80s G.I. Joe cartoons.

  • Dan Coyle

    “UNSEEN WAYAN BROTHERS PROJECT.”

    Oh, if only it were true, Kenneth, if only it were true!

  • bt

    Am I the only one who doesn’t hate Stephen Sommers? Yes, VH was dreck, but I have a fond spot in my heart for both “Deep Rising” and “The Mummy”. “The Mummy 2”, not so much.

  • Sommers other movies are OK, but Van Helsing was *so* horrible that it’ll take a couple of really good movies before people start trusting him again.

    I think the real reason I suspect this won’t happen is that as each of his films has gotten bigger, it’s gotten suckier. Like many directors, he’d be best served by making something quick and dirty for ten million dollars. Hollywood doesn’t think like that, though.