Zombieland's "story" was the worst part, Rob. Any time they needed to do something involving plot, it was like they shrugged their shoulders and sighed "fine, let's get this overwith." No emotional stakes, ever.

one should at least give them a chance to try and prove they can handle writting things like Gijoe for they can not make it any worse then rise of cobra at least till they have destro and cobra commander decide to go hunting or create zombie cobras'

To be fair, the main screenwriter for the first GI Joe film had six weeks to create a plot and write the script because the studio wanted a script before the strike.

The writer's actually worked on about a dozen films before Joe.

Zombieland was a fun movie (and better than G.I.Joe:ROC), but like Sean says, the story was not really a major factor. It was a thin plot to tie together the jokes, set pieces, and bits of witty dialogue. Sadly, ROC probably had a thicker, deeper story, for all its flaws.

That said, when I first heard that these guys were going to write the sequel, I took it positive as I'm sort of hoping the sequel WOULD be laced with Zombieland humor. To me, there's only two ways really to go with G.I.Joe: 1) A serious war/thriller film that is mature and geared towards the fans who want something closer to Hama's comic work, but even less cheesy than what he was forced to do or 2) Just go balls-to-the-wall farce that has fun with the zaniness of the cartoon... not as far as the Venture Bros. went, maybe, but definitely a 'we really can't take this seriously' approach.

So there definitely are a few (maybe just me?) old school Joe fans (and more serious, Hama-comic ones at that) that would actually prefer to see it become more humorous if they're going to keep the over-the-top, semi-serious approach ROC started. As was pointed out, though, they have a lot of clean up they need to do with the established movie continuity.

baroness strikes with nanaporbes

Rob, wouldn't a screenplay made of gold be a good thing? It would be BEAUTIFUL...

I say WOO-HAH !

Seriously though, it'll be fine and besides Cobra Commander WAS NOT Duke's best friend, juts his girlfriends little brother.. Also any writer worth his junk would know that most of the issues from teh first movie can be fixed with the little plot device known as NANOBOTS...

The Baroness still has nanobots in her system, which Cobra Commander can control, so while in prison he activates the switch which turns her evil again but malfunction due to some BS reason, giving her the accent we all wish she had.. she plays nice for a while to get a few things she needs to make her escape. After creating a diversion,she uses an access key she charmed away from duke, to make it into the GI Joe facilities and frees Cobra Commander and Chrome dome... they steal a plane or something and fly away to develop a new plan of terrorism, or recruit followers or something....

I don't care what anybody else says, I liked the GI Joe film. It wasn't great, and had very little in common with the 80's comic book that got me interested in Marvel in the first place, but it was still a lot of fun. If I had the choice of either dead serious or goofy, I'd go with dead serious, though.

And how much would you like to bet that in the first ten minutes of GI Joe 2, Cobra Commander and Destro are both relased from incarceration by direct orders from the President of the United States.

Doc

The sequel should be based on IDW's "GI Joe: Cobra" miniseries. Trust me, the scene where Chuckles (complete with stupid Hawaiian shirt) shoots Jinx in the face is worth the price of admission alone.

I think the next G.I Joe should be baseed on the delightful FFF from a while back.

The worst part of the GI Joe:ROC movie was Duke. He was terrible. I don't care that they messed around with the backstory by making Cobra Commander the Baroness' brother or other changes. I just wish they could get someone better than the guy who played Duke.