Remember all the chitter chatter you were reading in regards to Mummy director Stephen Sommers being in line to direct a feature film adaptation of G.I. Joe? Well, scratch it out, apparently it ain’t happening as IESB reports that Sommers allegedly said $10 million was his price tag and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura just shook his head. Personally I say good, glad it didn’t come about. However, this is not because I don’t want a G.I. Joe movie, I just don’t want a movie like this to ruin it for the entire genre in one shot.
Here is my proposal. Instead of making a G.I. Joe based movie, why not just make a special ops film with the grit of a Bourne flick and a real director behind the camera.
For the longest time they have been talking about adapting Tom Clancy’s “Rainbow Six,” a couple of years ago John Woo dropped off the project and Zack Snyder latched onto it for a short while, since then we have heard nothing.
At the same time there was talk of a feature film adaptation of the Clancy videogame “Splinter Cell” with Peter Berg attached to direct and then that got all shot to shit.
My idea is to run out and grab Peter Berg (perhaps someone tackle him at The Kingdom junket) and ask him to direct an adaptation of Clancy’s “Rainbow Six.” The kicker, and this is how you will get him to say yes, is that you tell him Stuart Beattie and Michael Mann have been hired to write the script. That last bit would be a lie, but we would have people scouring L.A. for those two and tackling them on first sight.
Why do it this way? Because not everything has to be a comic book adaptation! At least that is my opinion.
Of course this is wishful thinking. A proper special ops film will most likely never get made unless someone grows a pair, and in Hollywood that is never likely.
