G.I. Joe Fights Cobra in Hong Kong

August 6, 2009

Still not sold? Hope this brings you a bit closer to Yo Joe Goodness!

We Twittered this yesterday, but we loved it so much we’re posting it today to make sure you see it. This is the official international poster for the G.I. Joe live-action movie hitting Hong Kong on August 6, 2009.

If we need to point out the names of the characters on this poster, specifically the girl in black at the top with the sunglasses or the dude all in black at the bottom right, then most likely you are too young to remember the cartoon series its based on and the movie will live and die on its own merits.

While the rest of us that do know each of these characters, will most likely give the movie a “bye” no matter what its like because of its finally here! Yes its great to see Optimus Prime come to life albeit completely warped from the way we saw him in over 100 episodes of the animated series in the first Transformers live-action movie, but it will be a fanboy dream come true to finally see Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow go head to head in live-action. How many nods to the cartoons will there be? We hope at least as many as they did in Iron Man. If not, we just hope they touch on all the cool stuff we remember and add in new high-tech weapons and keep Marlon Wayans dialogue to a minimum (they should have cast him as Snake-Eyes!) and we should be happy camper no matter how naive that may sound considering the chop suey job Hollywood did on X-Men Origins: Wolverine and yes the director is the same guy who made Van Helsing.

We posted the trailer before, so here is a great video from IGN that shows who has been cast as each of the Joe characters: