Overview
- Max Landis has a treatment in hand, while Danny McBride is in talks to write a separate treatment for the franchise reboot.
- Reports differ on whether the studio might combine the two efforts into one film, with a studio source describing them as distinct projects.
- Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing the development push, and no casting, director, budget, or start date has been set.
- Paramount CEO David Ellison has prioritized G.I. Joe, with reporting that he wants it out before the studio’s planned Call of Duty adaptation.
- The strategy follows uneven box-office results for the brand, as Transformers crossover prospects remain only teased and unconfirmed.