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MXC already has a Jihad Joe character.

Iblis on August 22, 2007 at 11:42 AM

Oh. Nevermind.

MITT AND RUDY.

Uh oh, I suppose it was going to come to this. According to Advertising Age (via Hot Air and Weaselzippers), Paramount and Hasbro (yes, they’re mentioned here) seem to have a problem with marketing a movie adaptation to a global audience because over….

Take my advice, go and download that video game now to show solidarity with what G.I Joe should be: A Real American Hero!

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention, updated throughout the day…so check back often….

Maybe if they were able to take the G.I. Joe doll; put a beard on him, dress him in a frock, and strap an explosive vest, and several phrases of islamist hatred that you would hear by pulling his string. The deal maker would be the vest exploding randomly as the child pulled the string to hear the next triad.

and global audiences aren’t in the mood for a hero from the U.S. military

But wasn’t one of the heroes from this summer’s successful “Transformers” movie a Special Forces officer and his team?

Hadji, by the way is an Indian name.. I see no problem there..

Viper1 on August 21, 2007 at 5:06 PM

This was never in dispute. I just said they’d never get away with it with so many people out there who never let facts interfere with their emotions.

Why don’t they just start a new line of Jihadi warrior’s, I’m sure they would sell like hotcakes in the M.E…

doriangrey on August 21, 2007 at 2:50 PM

Will he convert to Islam and take arms against the US?

drjohn on August 21, 2007 at 7:57 PM

Exit question: How long before Hezbollah and Hamas action figures hit the market?

CP on August 21, 2007 at 5:14 PM

I smell a marketing campaign.

Call ‘em G.I.hadi Joe(s).

Or they could make up their own damned anti-heroes (or anti-climactic heroes) and stop ruining other people’s work.

and global audiences aren’t in the mood for a hero from the U.S. military.

Hmmm… actualy I think AMERICAN audiences are ready for an American military hero… its Hollywood and New Yawk who don’t want to see it…

Just like when they PURPOSEFULLY destroyed Starship Troopers, because it was “pro” war…. I mean come on… no powered Armor??????? PC combat troops??? Really wish someone would redo it agian, correctly. And we now have the effects to do it right too….

natesnake on August 21, 2007 at 3:44 PM

Iblis on August 21, 2007 at 3:51 PM

Actually, being a complete dork is having all the action figures, the entire comic book series, and every TV episode on tape.

And being ticked off that they even tried to make Duke Scarlett’s main man in the series.

And in # 21, I always figured that Snake was determined to get Scarlett out for two reasons; (1) to save her, and (2) to save his clan-brother Storm Shadow from her.

cheers

eon

Hey geniuses, the appeal of the “overtly militaristic version of GI Joe” is the “overtly militaristic version of GI Joe.”
CP on August 21, 2007 at 5:14 PM

Hehe. I heard DC is in talks to get a Wonder Woman movie made. Except, of course, without the American flag outfit, the American military alter-ego, etc. – basically everything that made Wonder Woman popular in the first place.

Hollywood’s sure fire plan:

STEP 1. Take a classic American icon;

STEP 2. Remove everything about it that is American and/or iconic;

STEP 3. Spend $50 million in blatantly fraudulent advertising to get as many suckers as possible into the theaters expecting to see their beloved American icons; and

STEP 4. Make sequels that are even WORSE than the first movie until you’ve finally sucked the franchise dry and run it into the ground once and for all.

Hey geniuses, the appeal of the “overtly militaristic version of GI Joe” is the “overtly militaristic version of GI Joe.”

Of course, I’m not holding my breath. They’ll make some excuse about selling to “global audiences” like they did when they altered the Superman tagline.

Exit question: How long before Hezbollah and Hamas action figures hit the market?

We need a Jonny Quest movie.

archon2001 on August 21, 2007 at 2:55 PM

Absolutely,

Hadji, by the way is an Indian name.. I see no problem there..
Although the whiny islamofascists would no doubt cry foul

When was the last time you saw a fictional movie that made the American government look like the good guys?

I can’t think of anything recent at all.