Zombieland writers go off about G.I. Joe 2

We all know how incredibly crazy happy a lot of you were when it came to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. All joking aside, despite the fact that the Stephen Sommers directed flick got almost entirely panned by critics and fans, it still made enough money to warrant an inevitable summer explosion-filled sequel. This time around, Zombieland writers Rhette Reese and Paul Wernick are handling the story line, which could be pretty promising, especially if you enjoyed the horror comedy.

MTV Movies Blog got to sit down with the two writers and they spilled about their love for G.I. Joe and how the script will be turning out.:

“We’re excited,” explained Wernick. “Rhett was such a huge ‘G.I. Joe’ fan growing up, as was I.”

“We can say that we will be faithful to the first film,” Reese explained of their plans for the sequel. “We will not be ignoring events from the first in the second.”

“It will be a sequel,” added Wernick. “It will be a continuation of ‘G.I. Joe’ [as it was established last summer].”

“It’s hard to think of it being any bigger; that was a big movie,” Reese said of any pressure to top the first film’s massive action sequences. “They blew up a lot of stuff. We hope for it to be as fun, that the characters really pop. We’ll be introducing some new characters.”

“We’re going out to Pawtucket, Rhode Island to the Hasbro headquarters next week,” Wernick said, explaining that the trip will help dictate who those new characters will be. “[We’ll] talk to the toy guys, take a tour of the facility, see all the old toys, the new toys and just get inspired.”

“We’re going to be open to what they have, and we’re presenting them with what we have; it will be a meeting of the minds,” Reese said of the early stage in their script development. “This is a dream come true. If I could get in a time machine and go tell my 11-year-old self this he’d be dancing, running through the street doing cartwheels… ‘G.I. Joe’ should be fun, it should be a ride. That’s what we feel like ‘Zombieland’ was, and we hope to bring that to the ‘G.I. Joe’ franchise also.”