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Post Posted: August 11th 2008 1:10 pm
 
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This isn't movie related but still worth a look. Next year Hasbro is releasing a series of new animated shorts called "G.I.Joe: Resolute". They will be shown as a series of ten 5 minute webisodes and a 10 minute conclusion on the Hasbro website. They're hoping to also show them on Cartoon Network then release them on DVD.

The cool thing about this new cartoon is it's going to a totally serious take on the series. For example, instead of lasers there's real bullets, soldiers are actually killed unlike the original series where that type of stuff wasn't allowed being a kid's cartoon and all.

Here's a cam clip from the 2008 G.I.Joe Collector's Convention:

[flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/zITV5dmBl3k[/flash]


If these are successful Hasbro hopes to do something like this for Transformers as well, which would :jammin:


Post Posted: April 5th 2009 1:35 pm
 
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The G.I. Joe Resolute movie will be airing on the Cartoon Network on April 26 at midnight in the US. Warren Ellis, the writer, provided some details on his blog a while back (see below). Hopefully, it will get picked up as a show.

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[align=left]So I wrote what we call a "micro-series" called GI JOE: RESOLUTE. (This has been misreported elsewhere as GI JOE ABSOLUTE, which may give aid and comfort to the people at Hasbro who weren’t wild about the title!) It’s an hour long, broken into ten 5-minute episodes and one 10-minute final episode.

It went like this. Sam Register phoned me up and said, we’d really like you to write a GI JOE animation, at a PG-13 rating, aimed at an older viewer. I said, I’ve never seen a GI JOE cartoon in my life. The closest I got to a GI JOE comic was drinking with Larry Hama. I’ve never even seen a GI JOE. Couldn’t tell you what they look like if you paid me. I know nothing about GI JOE. It is meaningless in my world. Excellent, Sam said. Just the guy we need.

It was hard not to notice, at this point, that Sam Register is crazier than a shithouse rat. Therefore I decided to take the job. I was told, some time after I finished the job, that GI JOE is actually kind of similar to Action Man. "Why didn’t they SAY so?" I yelled. Eagle Eyes! Gripping Hands! The Red Devil Action Man who had a hideous accident in a tree during a parachute op in my back garden when I was three years old. The mutilated Action Man whom my grandad found in a lay-by and thereby became default Torture Sequence Action Man for several years. Ah, the 1970s, where setting action figures on fire in the woods was considered part of a healthy childhood.

"Ask them if GI JOE and Barbie can have a really disturbing sex scene where they get naked and then realise they don’t have any genitalia," said my girlfriend.

Everyone was so helpful during this project. Anyway. So my brief was to produce a non-tiny-child-oriented GI JOE. Which necessitated reading just a toxic amount of research, leading me to birth an odd, lumpy, normal-for-Norfolk-looking hybrid of the comic and the cartoon. The idea was, as I understand it, that bringing in a writer with absolutely no nostalgia for the property would give them the tone they were looking for. I think they were happy when I presented them with the initial list of characters I was going to just kill. And then the list of things I was going to blow up.

The people at Hasbro were actually remarkably supportive. And I did apologise after shouting at them those times. And they did give me one of those conversations that you never really expect to have when growing up:

HASBRO: No, Warren, you cannot wipe Beijing from the face of the earth.

ME: Shit. (pause) What about Moscow?

HASBRO: Wiping Moscow from the face of the earth would be fine.

The point was to write an hour-long story that really put the property and the characters through some shit changes: as if this were the GI JOE film (at the time of my writing RESOLUTE, there still wasn’t a locked script on the live-action film) and I was rebooting and re-grounding the property on my own. These sort of gigs are immense technical challenges, and really sharpen up some skills I wouldn’t ordinarily use.

One other error in the reportage I’ve seen: someone mentioned Lady Jaye in connection with RESOLUTE. Lady Jaye is not actually in RESOLUTE. Scarlett is the female lead on the Joe side of the story, I guess, although there is another female character on the new Joe team with a significant role. Two probably-beloved characters die in the first five minutes. Snake-Eyes gets to impale someone while travelling at a hundred miles an hour. Cobra Commander isn’t very funny any more. Although, really, given that his uniform includes wearing a bag over his head, there are limits to how unfunny he can be at any given time.

RESOLUTE will be screened on the web first, I believe, sometime in 2009.

Hasbro, as I say, were pretty easy to work with, especially given the things I was doing to their toys. The animation team were lovely people, and I’m hoping I get to work with crazy Sam Register again in the future.
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Ahh, Cobra-La. That's when it started to go off the beam.

Actually, the show got goofy after the first two mini-series. When it got picked up fulltime, the style went from knowingly-campy to incoherent drivel. The Movie seems to encapsulate everything that went wrong.

After watching the CC clip, I finally realized that Destro’s look in TROC is based on his Movie outfit.

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Also, here is a better pick of hooded Snake Eyes. Is this an illusion to Maul?

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G.I.Joe Resolute Movie Trailers
Its subtitle should be "Don't fuck with Snake Eyes."

[spoil][flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/5Gsq73Xvcwc&color1=0xb1b1b1&color2=0xcfcfcf&hl=en&feature=player_embedded&fs=1[/flash]

[flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/nyNsG6xRd3s&hl=en&fs=1[/flash][/spoil]


Post Posted: April 5th 2009 3:29 pm
 
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I'm definitely looking forward to GIJoe Resolute since it seems like it's going to be a revisiting of the cartoon but with a more serious tone. There were some leaked videos of it a while back and I thought it looked pretty good.

E_CHU_TA! wrote:
Actually, the show got goofy after the first two mini-series. When it got picked up fulltime, the style went from knowingly-campy to incoherent drivel. The Movie seems to encapsulate everything that went wrong.


Incoherent drivel is a bit harsh, imo. Now the G.I.Joe series produced by DIC, there was a terrible Joe cartoon. Makes you appreciate the Sunbow series even more. I'm glad Shout! picked up the cartoon rights, hopefully they'll release the entire series on DVD since Rhino never finished it.


Post Posted: April 17th 2009 4:53 pm
 
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The series starts tomorrow over at the Adult Swim website. I wonder if Resolute will upstage its live-action brother.

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Incoherent drivel is a bit harsh, imo.

I have to preference my opinion by saying that I haven’t re-watched a substantial amount of the series. Regardless, the “The Viper is Coming” episode is wacky.


“The Viper is Coming” Part 1 & Part 2

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[flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/gbDPAitWKJI&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

[flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/SnEhMJ881SM&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]
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G.I. Joe Resolute 1st 3 episodes

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Part 1

[flash width=560 height=340]http://www.youtube.com/v/LmahUDrswxY&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

Part 2

[flash width=560 height=340]http://www.youtube.com/v/7FS9-bYAsNU&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

Part 3

[flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/16neqpiuxSo&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]
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Post Posted: April 17th 2009 7:52 pm
 
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wow, that was really nice! too bad the actual movie won't be nearly as stylized or cool


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awesome... brings back memories.


Post Posted: April 20th 2009 5:28 pm
 
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More Resolute awesomeness.

Part 4

[spoil][flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/4AB4b7dZ1RA&hl=en&fs=1[/flash][/spoil]

Part 5

[spoil][flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/-Lik0RPsCTA&hl=en&fs=1[/flash][/spoil]


Post Posted: April 21st 2009 5:16 am
 
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1-5 rar'ed and ready for download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NZMZ4F84


Post Posted: April 21st 2009 7:37 pm
 
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Thanks Cryostar.

Part 6

[spoil][flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/lEsAMZLPtAk&hl=en&fs=1[/flash][/spoil]

Cobra mercenaries are the new Stromtroopers. They drop like flies and can't hit anything.


Post Posted: April 22nd 2009 6:46 am
 
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episode 6 download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=21F1HWSU

E, thanks for the youtube link. :)

Agreed, only now we get to watch them get slaughtered. The swinging grenade belt is still my favourite.


Post Posted: April 22nd 2009 7:17 pm
 
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Only two more parts after the ones below.

Part 7

[spoil][flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/QQNSNEzF4c8&hl=en&fs=1[/flash][/spoil]

Part 8

[spoil][flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/uT-_OHcw5fI&hl=en&fs=1[/flash][/spoil]


Post Posted: April 23rd 2009 5:30 am
 
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7 and 8 are up for download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RIV02D74

Thanks again to E for the links.


Post Posted: April 23rd 2009 2:49 pm
 
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All that's left is the 10 minute finale. Hopefully that will leak as well.

Part 9

[spoil][flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/ZlqDzHH_o5o&hl=en&fs=1[/flash][/spoil]

Part 10

[spoil][flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/7dFD2qBF10Y&hl=en&fs=1[/flash][/spoil]


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9 and 10: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=IIWI1TV8

The Snake Eyes vs Storm Shadow episode... beautiful.


Post Posted: April 23rd 2009 6:45 pm
 
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The web page below has hi-res pics from the finale. I'm sure the episodes will look especially slick in HD.

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www.thehdroom.com /Sneak_Peek_GI_Joe_Resolute_Finale_on_Adult_Swim/


Post Posted: April 23rd 2009 10:10 pm
 
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Thanks for all the links, E_CHU_TA & Cryostar!

These shorts are great, definitely what I was expecting and hoping for when this was first announced. Hopefully these will do well enough to warrant a full new series (and maybe a new toyline to back it up.)

Edit: Looks like they already have some figures for Resolute available. I haven't been keeping up to speed on the G.I.Joe news.


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I'm hoping for a DVD as well, consolidating these into one movie.


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I think they are great.


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Part 11 (Finale):
[spoil][flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/OiIZRPxwHPk&hl=en&fs=1[/flash][/spoil]


Post Posted: April 26th 2009 3:19 pm
 
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Downloadable Link. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DKMKD994

Thx for the original source Mav.


Entire Episode up for download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9CIJCPVI


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Excellent. Thanks, Cryostar. :)


Post Posted: July 6th 2009 8:46 pm
 
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A hi-res version of the Resolute promo from the 2008 Comic Con is below. Previously, there was only a bootleg of the footage available on the net.

[flash width=425 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/VpQ4KfxX5u4[/flash]


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and knowing, is half the battle.


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