Since Rich Johnston, or possibly Wizard, let the cat out of the bag — too soon, apparently — about veteran writer Larry Hama’s return to G.I. Joe for IDW’s reboot, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Chris Ryall started a message-board thread to answer the first 10 questions about the new title.
Topics range from the inclusion of specific characters and where the team will be headquartered to how much “free rein” IDW has with the license and confirmation that, yes, this series is a reboot:
Are we doing a reboot? The answer is, we’re starting at the beginning. A New Beginning. But we’re doing it in a way akin to what they did with James Bond last year. The movie stripped away a lot of the things that had made the franchise feel bloated and ridiculous and started over. Not necessarily scrapping what was to come in the characters’ future movies, but resetting things, losing the bloat, making the character stand out again, and reminding people why it was once great.
That’s what we’re doing. And doing it with Larry, where he’s a two-decades-better storyteller than he was, and with the wisdom of years to think about what worked and what didn’t, is immensely exciting to me. Before, he was essentially making it up as he went. Now, he know what he wants to do, and is being given the freedom to do it.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
“But we’re doing it in a way akin to what they did with James Bond last year. The movie stripped away a lot of the things that had made the franchise feel bloated and ridiculous and started over. Not necessarily scrapping what was to come in the characters’ future movies, but resetting things, losing the bloat, making the character stand out again, and reminding people why it was once great.”
So in other words, A REBOOT. Sheesh.
July 19th, 2008 at 8:06 pm
it was nice while it lasted. i will not join on this bandwagon of refreshed old ideas.