00:01There's a lot, many people who love G.I. Joe, but there are far more people who've never heard of
00:06it with no idea.
00:07I mean, a lot of people are going to go to this movie saying, who's G.I. Joe?
00:10They don't know that it's a bunch of G.I. Joes. There's a bunch of characters.
00:13There's no specific guy called G.I. Joe.
00:15And so I thought, well, my job is to make a movie for everyone.
00:20It's all about Duke and Ripcord running into this organization called the G.I. Joes
00:25that are in conflict with an organization that's just about to become Cobra.
00:30And that's why it's called The Rise of Cobra, because it's sort of, uh, Cobra isn't formed yet.
00:36And over the course of this movie is how it gets formed.
00:40He casts Channing Tatum as Duke.
00:43And, I mean, Duke had to be, he's a leader of men.
00:45And he had to be, he has to be tough.
00:47He has to be a tough guy and someone we believe could, you know, lead the best of the best.
00:52And Channing kind of fits the bill.
00:54I mean, he's a smart guy, but he's, you know, I mean, Channing's, what, six foot three and big and
00:59tough.
00:59And, you know, I just believe him as a, you know, as a captain.
01:03Sienna, I don't know, she was one of the first names that popped up.
01:05And I've seen a bunch of her stuff and she's great.
01:07And then I met her and she's adorable.
01:10And I just thought, oh, you know, and she's never done anything like this, which I always find interesting.
01:15She's a really great actress.
01:16So I know she could do it.
01:18And it gives her, lets her play with a curveball, so.
01:21It's funny because it's like Hawk was written for Dennis Quaid.
01:25I mean, it just felt like it, even the old character, I just thought, oh, if I was going to
01:29update that, who would play it, it's Dennis Quaid.
01:31But we didn't think we could afford him or get him or whatever.
01:33But I put in a call and it's funny because basically we got Dennis because his son said, dad, you've
01:40got to be in G.I. Joe.
01:41They want you to be in G.I. Joe, you've got to do it.
01:44Ray Park, I mean, since he was a little kid, he has always wanted to play Snake Eyes.
01:48And the moment I realized I was doing G.I. Joe, I knew that Ray Park would be the only
01:52Snake Eyes.
01:53So he didn't have to audition.
01:56Ray was the guy from moment one.
01:58And I think all the fanboys would have killed me if I wouldn't have hired Ray.
02:00So he has that going for him as well.
02:04I thought if you were going to have to sneak under the Egyptian desert and break into the pit, what
02:09better than a mole machine?
02:11And so that's probably my favorite vehicle.
02:14Anyway, that's how all of it.
02:15I do as much research as possible.
02:18I read everything that the military is up to and what they're planning and what they think they're going to
02:21pull off in the next 10 or 20 years.
02:24And I take that and I figure out how can I apply that to our story.
02:26And really, every gadget has to pertain to a character or a story.
02:32And so we've got everything from swords to futuristic pulse weapons in this movie.
02:38They put these accelerator suits on and it's two guys in accelerator suits chasing a jacked up Hummer through the
02:49streets of Paris.
02:49And when you're doing a scene like that, you need every department.
02:53We have thousands, literally thousands of hours or at least a thousand or two thousand hours worth of meetings to
03:00figure out every single cut, shot by shot.
03:03We storyboard the whole thing.
03:05We'll pre-visualize some of it on film.
03:07And that takes months and months, not only first to write it and then to draw it and then to
03:13sit down with the stunt department and the effects department and the special effects department.
03:17And frame by frame, shot by shot, figure out how are we going to make this come to life?
03:22What is real?
03:23What is not real?
03:24What is going to be put in later?
03:25And it's just an extraordinary, it's a real team effort.
03:31The whole nanotechnology is going to be the future of mankind over the next hundred years because its applications are
03:38just, they apply to everything.
03:41And so I just think it really became clear that if a nuclear bomb was the scary threat of the
03:47last century, a nanotech warhead will be the scary thing in 20 or 50 years from now.
03:54That was what really drew me to this movie is that it takes place all around the world.
03:58It's, you know, we shoot in Washington, D.C., Paris, the Egyptian desert, Kriegstan, the Polarized Cap, the bottom of
04:07the ocean, and Tokyo.
04:08I think those are all the places I've hit.
04:10And I just, it just really appealed to me that it's a global movie.
04:13It takes place everywhere.
04:13You've got all these characters from all over the world, whether it's Byung-Hung Lee from, you know, from Korea
04:18or, you know, there's Americans and British and French and Africans and Arabs and the whole, you have the whole
04:25group.
04:26And it was really just, it's a very visual, visceral kind of fun movie to make.
04:30And I just thought, oh, it does, I think it's going to play everywhere because it's such a global movie.
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