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G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra director Stephen Sommers is already thinking about a part two for the big-screen Real American Hero story that’s due out August 8th.
“…I hope I get to do a sequel, first of all because I had so much fun with these actors. I go into these movies knowing it’s a marathon, not a sprint, and I won’t work with assholes,” Sommers said in an interview with Cinematical.
Sommers, who also directed all of the Mummy films, is apparently in love with the canon and surrouding “mythology” wrapped around everybody’s favorite toy soilders. “Because the mythology is all there, there’s a lot of interesting stuff. Like, something you don’t know yet is who killed Hard Master,” he went on to say. “I mean, the hardcore G.I. Joe fans know that it wasn’t Storm Shadow.”
The filmmaker finished by saying, “We had a blast – it was really hard, but we had a lot of fun on the set, so to get to hang out with these people again would be just heaven.”
Despite the film not being screened to the majority of critics, G.I. Joe is looking to light up the box office this weekend. The last big action film of the summer, Joe is looking to be another Transformers 2 (mad cash) only without the harsh reviews (mad cows).
G.I. Joe will be huge this weekend, but what will be the magic number to greenlight a sequel? Studios usually place a benchmark of around $100 million but this actioner will need much more during its run to recoup its budget of between $150 million and $200 million.
That probably won’t be a problem.
