Bruce Willis - G.I. Joe Retaliation Trailer
Todd Gilchrist, The Hollywood Reporter
He was always our dream guy to play Joe Colton, the original Joe, [but] I didn’t necessarily know if he would ever do something like this. It’s such a very specific brand -- the character Joe Colton exists, but not really. But the question I keep getting from people like my mom is, “Well, who plays Joe?” And there is no Joe, but we had this character Joe Colton that we built into the movie that would help bring it back to the basics. That was a big part of the movie -- these guys don’t have laser guns; they are relearning how to be a soldier on the ground, how to be a leader, how to make moral decisions, all those things, reset it all. And Bruce is the guy [to anchor that]. So Lorenzo [di Bonaventura] reached out to him, but when you’re courting Bruce it’s not like, "He’s going to do it – yay!" It’s months and months of winning his trust, him learning about who I am and learning what the brand is about. And I never really thought it would fully happen until he showed up on set, but he came through and he was awesome. I mean, he exudes the tone of the movie because he’s so cool and he’s so that guy but at the same time doesn’t take himself too seriously. He just gives you that little wink, or whenever he says one line you just get it. So it was fun -- and to have [him and Dwayne Johnson] both next to each other is blowing my mind. They love each other, Bruce and Dwayne. I'm surprised they’ve never been in a movie together, so Bruce, him and then the brand, G.I. Joe, they all just up the ante. No matter what I do in the movie, it already has a specific tone.
Turns out that fight scene will be 10 minutes long with no dialogue. Awesome.
Terri Schwartz, ifc.com
Who are they to turn to other than the original Joe? Bruce Willis gets a lot more screen time in this trailer than he did in its predecessor, and hopefully that is indicative of the entire film. There are few things we love more than watching Willis kick ass. Who knows, maybe he’s one of the people involved in the cliff-face fight scene (though somehow we doubt it).
“G.I. Joe: Retaliation” stars Channing Tatum, Jonathan Pryce, Ray Park, Byung-hun Lee, Dwayne Johnson, Adrianne Palicki, Ray Stevenson, Willis and RZA. It’s directed by “Step Up 3D’s” Chu, which explains why the fight scenes are so well choreographed. The flick is due out in theaters on June 29.
New G.I. Joe: Retaliation trailer sees Bruce Willis come to the rescue
Emily Hewett, metro.co.uk
'But in my mind, the movie was never about them; the movie is about our characters that you introduced from the beginning. We wanted people to come into this movie and, if you haven’t seen the first movie, be totally OK, which is actually pretty tough because Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow are hard to explain to somebody who had never seen G.I. Joe.
'But we leave some of it open, so you’ll see.'
And Chu, who took over from Stephen Sommers, has dubbed Johnson 'franchise Viagra', saying he has the ability to breathe new life into existing series, as he did with The Scorpion King, Fast Five, and Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.
The 32-year-old director is also convinced he's perfect for the directing role: 'I grew up with G.I. Joe. I played with all the toys, and I was a little spoiled kid, so I got all my brothers and sisters toys. I would play in the backyard in my sandbox, in the trees, in the couches.
'G.I. Joe: Retaliation' trailer 2: Bruce Willis orders Girl Scout Cookies (Video)
Corinne Heller, OnTheRedCarpet.
The president, played by Jonathan Pryce, announces: "This country is at war. The new special forces unit, Codenamed Cobra, will protect us where the Joes could not. The G.I. Joes are no more."
The U.S. leader is actually an imposter - the villian Zartan, played by Arnold Vosloo of "The Mummy" fame.
Following the infiltration of the White House, the Joes, led by Johnson's character, enlist the help of the original G.I. Joe, aka Colton.
Colton, played by Bruce Willis, points a gun at them and sarcastically places an order for two cases of Girl Scout cookies - Thin Mints.
In 2002, the actor bought 12,000 boxes of Girl Scout cookies from his daughter Tallulah and had them sent to U.S. troops deployed in Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom.
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