Baroness' Assets
Finally, someone gets an interview with Stephen Sommers(The Mummy franchise) on his new upcoming film, G.I. Joe The Rise of Cobra. Entertainment Weekly sat down with him and talked with the future of the movie, the Sienna Miller rumors and what inspired him to do the movie.
On Sienna Miller’s added assets:
“I guess the costume department gave her a tight fitting bra, but no one gave her rubber breasts or whatever. It is 100 percent Sienna Miller.”
The Inspiration for the movie:
“Sommers adds that G.I. Joe, which also stars Dennis Quaid and features a cameo from his Mummy star Brendan Fraser, was partly inspired by the Sean Connery-era James Bond movies. “I always loved the old Bonds,” he says. “It’s funny now how Bond wants to be Bourne. I loved Quantum of Solace, but it was like, man, this is a completely different movie to the Bonds I grew up with. In a very contemporary way, G.I. Joe is inspired by the memory of the kind of movies I saw when I was younger. I remember being in the theater for Thunderball and the big underwater battle at the end of that movie just blew my socks off. In G.I. Joe, there’s an underwater battle under the polar icecap that’s Thunderball times 10!”
So, is anyone else still scared to see the outcome of this film? What are your thoughts so far? You plan on seeing it come August?
I’m still up in the air on this. I am having troubles with the costumes. Sure Snake Eyes looks great, but what’s with everybody wearing his outfit? If I remember right, the coolest thing about GI Joe back in the day was waiting to see what new ‘cool’ outfit the next series was going to have. Were the marketing guys asleep during this meeting? Who wants to buy15 action figures all with the same body, just different heads. That sounds great!
I enjoy the stuff that Sommers has done, so there’s a good chance it will be entertaining, just not what we (the kids that grew up with it) remember. But then again, why would Hollywood NOT mess something up that’s already been around for years?