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Casting Call: Marlon Wayans Recruited For G.I. Joe
Posted by Michael Avila on 01/10/08 at 05:30 PM

GI JOEAnyone else concerned about the casting going on for the upcoming "G.I. Joe" movie? This week we learned Marlon Wayans has signed on to play team leader Ripcord. WHAA???!??!

Marlon Wayans?!?! The guy who has co-starred in "Norbit," "Little Man," "White Chicks" and the "Scary Movie" franchise? Why not add Jean Claude Van Damme to the team too? Or just lure Sgt. Slaughter out of retirement.

GI JOEI was already worried about this project when I heard they cast a stunt man (Ray Park, AKA 'Darth Maul' from Star Wars: Episode One) as Snake Eyes.

But at least that role calls for a guy who doesn't say anything and wears a mask. So as long as the guy in the outfit can believably beat the crap out of Cobra guys, it's all good. And Park is a legitimately bad dude.

Marlon Wayans

And please don't say, wait he was great in "Requiem For A Dream." Sure, he was. But that was eight years ago! What kind of serious work has he done since then? What about action movies?

I do like the news that Joseph Gordon-Levitt is also in talks to join the cast, and Sienna Miller as The Baroness is inspired casting. But any more questionable actor hirings will make 80s nostalgia-loving fanboys like myself remix the classic cartoon's catchphrase and say "NO, JOE!"


Comments

Yeah, Wayans is a HUGE red flag.
But I think some of the other casting choices are bad too- Sienna Miller? I don't think so. That pip-squeak Gordon-Levitt? What's going on?

And the reason Transformers worked so well is because Michael Bay knows how to blow things up. And people love giant robots. Save for Shia LeBouf, the cast was the weakest thing about the movie. (John Toturro especially, with all that rediculous CAMPY sector 7 nonsense).

Posted by: Rob Grizzly | January 12, 2008 02:01 PM

  
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