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Back in May, just over a month before the film was due to hit cinemas, Paramount Pictures made the unprecedented decision to push back the release of their impending action sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation until this coming March. The official line behind the move was to allow time for director John M. Chu (Step Up 2: The Streets, Step Up 3D) to oversee a 3D post-conversion, although rumours suggested that the real reason was to increase the role of Channing Tatum's character Duke.
Coming off the back of two consecutive hits in The Vow and 21 Jump Street (you can now throw Magic Mike into there too), Tatum's star had risen considerably since Retaliation first went into production, to the point where he was now arguably the biggest draw of the franchise. Unfortunately for Paramount, Duke wouldn't live to see Retaliation's second act...
Well, now that the marketing campaign for G.I. Joe: Retaliation has resumed with the release of a new trailer, we finally have confirmation that the studio has followed in the footsteps of 1987's G.I. Joe: The Movie by bringing the Joes' field commander back from the dead. If you've already seen the previous trailers for Retaliation, you'll only find snippets of new footage here, including a shot of Duke and Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) nine months in the making.
G.I. Joe Retaliation sees Tatum joined by G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra stars Ray Park (Snake Eyes), Lee Byung-hun (Storm Shadow), Arnold Vosloo (Zartan) and Jonathan Pryce (The US President), while new additions include Bruce Willis (The Expendables 2) as Colonel Joseph Colton, Adrianne Palicki (Red Dawn) as Lady Jaye, Elodie Yung (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as Jinx, D.J. Cotrona (Dear John) as Flint, Ray Stevenson (Thor: The Dark World) as Firefly, RZA (The Man with the Iron Fists) as Blind Master, Stephen Martines (General Hospital) as Cross-Country, Eddie Hargitay (The Superagent) as Tunnel Rat and Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic Park) as Mouse.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is scheduled to finally hit cinemas on March 27th, 2013![]()
Coming off the back of two consecutive hits in The Vow and 21 Jump Street (you can now throw Magic Mike into there too), Tatum's star had risen considerably since Retaliation first went into production, to the point where he was now arguably the biggest draw of the franchise. Unfortunately for Paramount, Duke wouldn't live to see Retaliation's second act...
Well, now that the marketing campaign for G.I. Joe: Retaliation has resumed with the release of a new trailer, we finally have confirmation that the studio has followed in the footsteps of 1987's G.I. Joe: The Movie by bringing the Joes' field commander back from the dead. If you've already seen the previous trailers for Retaliation, you'll only find snippets of new footage here, including a shot of Duke and Roadblock (Dwayne Johnson) nine months in the making.
G.I. Joe Retaliation sees Tatum joined by G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra stars Ray Park (Snake Eyes), Lee Byung-hun (Storm Shadow), Arnold Vosloo (Zartan) and Jonathan Pryce (The US President), while new additions include Bruce Willis (The Expendables 2) as Colonel Joseph Colton, Adrianne Palicki (Red Dawn) as Lady Jaye, Elodie Yung (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo) as Jinx, D.J. Cotrona (Dear John) as Flint, Ray Stevenson (Thor: The Dark World) as Firefly, RZA (The Man with the Iron Fists) as Blind Master, Stephen Martines (General Hospital) as Cross-Country, Eddie Hargitay (The Superagent) as Tunnel Rat and Joseph Mazzello (Jurassic Park) as Mouse.
G.I. Joe: Retaliation is scheduled to finally hit cinemas on March 27th, 2013
