We told you last month that Paramount had hired Zombieland scribes Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick to pen the sequel to the 2008 hit G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. You are likely aware that Reese and Wernick are also penning the script to the upcoming Deadpool movie, starring Ryan Reynolds – these two are busy!

Reese and Wernick did manage to find the time to sit down for an interview and speak a bit about the sequel to G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra.

Wernick said,

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

“My very first movie was a ‘G.I. Joe’ movie; I used the little ‘G.I. Joe’ action figures [as my actors],” he said, laughing. “I was like 9; the sad thing was that I figured I could do stop-motion with a video camera – and we know that stop motion doesn’t work with a video camera for anyone who’s ever tried it, especially the old video cameras – so, I realized pretty quickly that it wouldn’t be a seamless motion. I’d set them up, deliver the lines.”

Reese explained of their plans for the sequel,

“We can say that we will be faithful to the first film, We will not be ignoring events from the first in the second.”

Wernick added,

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

Reese explained about pressure to top the first film’s massive action sequences,

“It’s hard to think of it being any bigger; that was a big movie, 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.”

Wernick dropped some info on a trip the duo is taking for inspiration,

“We’re going out to Pawtucket, Rhode Island to the Hasbro headquarters next week, [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, 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.”

[Source] MTV