Happy Sad Confused,<\/a> McBride revealed that his take on G.I. Joe will center on Duke and take a more grounded approach than audiences might expect.<\/p>\n\u201cWeirdly, it grounds G.I. Joe; it\u2019s not a comedy. It\u2019s kind of suspense and action, and I think it\u2019s going to be a lot of fun,\u201d McBride said. \u201cYou\u2019re following Duke and a group of other Joes\u2026 There\u2019s that town in the comic, Springfield, which is a town that\u2019s secretly all Cobra, and so that is where our film takes place.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back in February, it was reported that Paramount was developing two competing G.I. Joe scripts\u2014one from Danny McBride and another from disgraced screenwriter Max Landis. McBride\u2019s pitch ultimately won over the studio and is moving forward.<\/p>\n
Cooper and McBride have collaborated before. Cooper made a surprise appearance as Elijah Gemstone in an episode of HBO\u2019s The Righteous Gemstones.<\/p>\n
McBride is best known as the creator and star of Vice Principals and The Righteous Gemstones. He will next voice Bomb in The Angry Birds Movie 3. He is represented by Range Media Partners and Hansen, Jacobson, Teller, Hoberman, Newman, Warren, Richman.<\/p>\n
Cooper is known for acclaimed performances in A Star Is Born, American Sniper, and as the voice of Rocket in the Guardians of the Galaxy films. Most recently, he appeared in Is This Thing On? and Superman. He is next set to star in Bong Joon Ho\u2019s Ally and the untitled Ocean\u2019s 13 prequel alongside Margot Robbie. Cooper is represented by Range Media Partners.<\/p>\n
Nexus Point News has reached out to Paramount Pictures for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chris Hemsworth was previously attached to star in Paramount\u2019s upcoming G.I. Joe film, but sources now tell Nexus…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692109,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-692108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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