Horrible choice! She can’t act (is usually just window-dressing in a film), she insulted the entire city of Pittsburgh, and a blond with hair dyed raven-black will look so fake.

Her only accomplishment is constantly wearing the most hideous outfits, and then getting ridiculed on blogs, like http://gofugyourself.typepad.com/go_fug_yourself/sienna_miller/index.html

“she insulted the entire city of Pittsburgh”

Alphabetically, or…?

Seriously, thought: ?

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Any casting of the Baroness that doesn’t end with Catherine Zeta-Jones or Angelina Jolie is doomed to failure. Sienna Miller’s too skinny and not nearly vampy or charismatic enough.

That Jude Law comment made my day.

Then Matt Damon as Cobra Commander?

i always liked her on keen eddie.

“i always liked her on keen eddie.”

That’s where I knew her from! I liked that show.

As long as she can pull of a sexy eastern european accent and have great on-screen chemistry with Flint (or the actor who’s playing him) I’m all right with her.
Do we know which of the joes will be appearing in the movie ? (Other than the usual suspects : Duke,Scarlett, Snake Eyes, Hawk ?)

Why isn’t this being done with the Muppets? The Muppets are perfect for this.

Actually all Hasbro has said is that the Pit isn’t in Brussels (I mentioned neither in my post). Here are Hasbro’s comments about the American vs. international nature of the group:

“There has been some talk. I don’t think anything is finalized at this point,” Wayne Charness, a Hasbro spokesman, said from Rhode Island.

“G.I. Joe will always be about what G.I. Joe is, which is synonymous with bravery and heroism.”

He suggested people may be confusing two different G.I. Joes: First came a line of 12-inch, realistic military figures that were popular with children in the 1960s and 1970s. In the second series, none of the heroes was named “Joe,” but a team led by “Duke” in a fight for freedom against the evil Cobra Commander. The movie will be based on the second generation of characters.

“G.I. Joe was always based in ‘the Pit.’ That was always their headquarters; it was never really determined where it was,” Mr. Charness said, adding the team has always been multinational and multicultural.
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From here.

Nowhere have they said it would be an American team; in fact, they said the team has always been “multinational,” which I call bullshit on. It’s been awhile since I’ve read the comic or seen the cartoon, but I remember Duke, Roadblock, Gung-Ho and the rest being U.S. military. Their logo has red, white and blue stripes, and the credits for the cartoon even had them standing in front of a flag at one point. Not to mention their tagline was “A Real American Hero.”

If they want to change that for the movie, I don’t really care … I doubt I’ll see it anyway until it’s on cable, because it’s not anything that really appeals to me beyond a sense of nostalgia. But they haven’t said anything that sounds like they’re denying the team is international, and even go far as to rewrite history and say the team has always been that way.

Frankly I was underwelmed by Transformers. This? Good lord, if it is not at least G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero I am not just boycotting it in the theatres or DVD but WILL PRAY FOR GOLOBULUS AND COBRA LA TO TAKE A MASSIVE DUMP ON EACH IDIOT THAT GREEN LIT THAT IDEA!!! And then I will hope every movie they make from that point on does numbers that would make HOWARD THE DUCK look like fricken’ STAR WARS!!!

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Well, actually, something CAN be said for G.I. Joe being multinational. Go on over to http://www.bloodforthebaron.com/ where you can read all the British comic adventures of the UN-backed Action Force and their battles against Baron Ironblood and his armies, including the Red Shadows. See, Action Force started off as a toy line that paralleled the Real American Hero phase of G.I. Joe, so much so that Hasbro eventually bought it out, keeping things like the Red Shadows and replacing the rest with the Joe and Cobra characters. As you’ll see, the comics reflected the takeover, with more and more of the Joes turning up alongside (and then squeezing out)the Action Force team members and Destro being introduced as a cohort of Baron Ironblood’s. The Baron, incidentally, deliberately takes on the new identity of Cobra Commander and rebuilds his organization as Cobra. As the series changed format, Marvel began reprinting some of the now-all-Joe stories stateside. So, yeah, we think of G.I. Joe as being all-American, but at least in the UK, they would view it as an organization that started out as being more overtly multi-national.

The first international member on the Stateside team was Backstop, a Canadian, in 1987. More international members followed in the ensuing years including an SAS operative (Big Ben) and members of the former Oktober Guard (Red Star, Big Bear, etc).

And if you watched the cartoon at all, you’ll see that Joe spent a good chunk of time outside of the US, rather than in it. Also, the DIC series (love it or hate it) started off with the tagline “international heroes.”

So no, things didn’t start off that way but it eventually evolved into an international team. The naysayers make it out to be some half-baked effort to be politically-correct when, in fact, it was indeed part of the brand’s history.

how is a 26 year old playing the baroness? in the cartoon she was at LEAST 40.