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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.

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Video game adaptations will never die, despite what we all might think after the abomination trilogy  on the big screen that is Resident Evil. Still taking great advantage of this semi popular genre of sorts, Universal Pictures nabbed itself the rights to the hit 1979 Atari game, Asteroids. For those of you who do remember the game, its the one where…you just hit asteroids and ocassionally a flying saucer. Yeah, I know.

Matthew Lopez will pen the script with Lorenzo di Bonaventura producing, and yes Di Bonaventura is attached as producer to the upcoming late summer movie, G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. Pertaining to the actual storyline, it has not been revealed but due to the very simple nature of the video game and overall lack of plot, Universal Pictures will conjure up some form of an original storyline for this feature. After all, this is the booming studio that is coming up with ideas for features out of such classic board games like Candyland.