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Directed by : Stephen Sommers

Produced by : Lorenzo di Bonaventura,Bob Ducsay,Brian Goldner

Written by : Screenplay:,Stuart Beattie,David Elliot,Paul Lovett

Story : Michael B. Gordon,Stuart Beattie,Stephen Sommers

Comic Book : Larry Hama

Starring : Channing Tatum,Sienna Miller,Christopher Eccleston,Joseph Gordon-Levitt,Rachel Nichols,Marlon Wayans,Ray Park,Lee Byung-hun,Dennis Quaid

Music by : Alan Silvestri

Cinematography : Mitchell Amundsen

Editing by : Bob Ducsay,Jim May

Studio : Spyglass Entertainment

Distributed by : Paramount Pictures

Release date(s) : August 5, 2009 (2009-08-05)

Running time : 118 minutes

Country : United States

Language : English

Budget : $175 million

Gross revenue : $372,171,247 (Including DVD Sales)

Plot

In the near future, weapons expert James McCullen (Christopher Eccleston) has created a nanotechnology-based weapon capable of destroying an entire city. His company M.A.R.S. sells four warheads to NATO, and NATO troops are tasked with delivering the warheads. Duke (Channing Tatum) and Ripcord (Marlon Wayans) are delivering the warheads when they are ambushed by The BaronessSienna Miller), whom Duke recognizes to be his ex-fiancee Ana Lewis. Duke and Ripcord are rescued by Scarlett (Rachel Nichols), Snake Eyes (Ray Park), Breaker (Saïd Taghmaoui) and Heavy Duty (Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje). They take the warheads to The Pit, G.I. Joe's command center in Egypt, and upon arriving rendezvous with the head of The G.I. Joe Team, General Hawk (Dennis Quaid). Hawk takes command of the warheads and excuses Duke and Ripcord, only to be convinced to let them join his group after Duke reveals that he knows The Baroness. (

McCullen is revealed to be using the same nanotechnology to build an army of soldiers with the aid of The Doctor (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), planning on using the warheads to cause panic and bring about a new world order. Using a tracking device, McCullen locates The G.I. Joe Base and sends Storm Shadow (Byung-Hun Lee) and The Baroness to retrieve the warheads with assistance from Zartan (Arnold Vosloo). After a fight, Storm Shadow and The Baroness retrieve the warheads and take them to Baron DeCobray, The Baroness's husband, for him to weaponize. Making their way to Paris, The Joes pursue The Baroness and Storm Shadow but are unsuccessful in stopping them from launching the missile. The nanomites destroy The Eiffel Tower and some of the surrounding area before Duke manages to hit the kill switch, but in doing so he is captured and taken to McCullen's base under The Arctic.

The Joes locate the secret base and fly there as McCullen loads three missiles with nano-mite warheads. After Snake Eyes takes out one, Ripcord pursues the remaining missiles in a stolen M.A.R.S. prototype Night Raven jet while Scarlett, Breaker, and Snake Eyes infiltrate the base. Snake Eyes duels and prevails over Storm Shadow. Duke learns that The Doctor is Rex Lewis, Ana's brother believed to have been killed by a mistimed airstrike during a mission led by Duke. Rex had encountered Doctor Mindbender (Kevin O'Connor) in the bunker and became seduced with the nanomite technology, taking too long to retrieve the data and getting caught in the bombing which disfigured him. After freeing Duke, The Baroness gets subdued as The Doctor reveals he has implanted her with nano-mites which has put her under his control for the past four years. Attempting to kill Duke, McCullen ends up being burned so he and The Doctor flee to an escape vessel. Duke and The Baroness pursue him while The Joes fall back when The Doctor activated the base's self destruct sequence.

The Doctor assumes the identity of Cobra Commander, having healed McCullen's burned face with nanomites, encasing it in silver and naming him "Destro", which places McCullen under the Doctor's control. They are captured by G.I. Joe soon after. On the supercarrier USS Flagg, The Baroness is placed in protective custody until they can remove the nanomites from her body. Meanwhile, Zartan, having had his physical appearance altered by nanomites, infiltrates The White House during the missile crisis and assumes the identity of the President of the United States of America (Jonathan Pryce).

Cast

G.I. Joe

• Channing Tatum as "Duke" (Conrad Hauser): The lead soldier. Lorenzo di Bonaventura was originally interested in casting Mark Wahlberg, and when the script was rewritten into a G.I. Joe origin story, the studio offered the role to Sam Worthington. Tatum had played a soldier in Stop-Loss, an anti-war film, and originally wanted no part in G.I. Joe, which he felt glorified war. Once he read the script though, he realized the franchise was a fantasy akin to X-Men, Mission: Impossible and Star Wars rather than a war film.

• Dennis Quaid as "General Hawk" (General Clayton Abernathy): The team leader. Quaid described Hawk as "a cross between Chuck Yeager and Sgt. Rock and maybe a naïve Hugh Hefner". Quaid's son convinced him to take on the part, and the filmmakers enjoyed working with him so much that Stuart Beattie wrote "ten to fifteen more scenes" for the character. He filmed all his scenes within the first two months of production. Quaid is signed on for two sequels.

• Marlon Wayans as "Ripcord" (Wallace Weems): A pilot with a romantic interest in 'Scarlett'. A fan of the franchise, Wayans was cast on the strength of his performance in Requiem for a Dream. Bonaventura said that the film showed Wayans could be serious as well as funny.

• Rachel Nichols as "Scarlett" (Shana M. O'Hara): She graduated college at age twelve and became the team's intelligence expert. Having left school so early, she does not understand men's attraction to her. Nichols was the first choice for the role. Nichols had dyed her blonde hair red – Scarlett's hair color – for her role in Star Trek, which she filmed before G.I. Joe. She burned herself filming an action sequence with Sienna Miller.

• Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as "Heavy Duty" (Hershel Dalton): An ordnance expert and field commander of the team. Common was offered the role of Heavy Duty's cousin Roadblock,although Bonaventura previously indicated Heavy Duty was being used in that character's stead.Stuart Beattie ultimately chose to have Heavy Duty instead of Roadblock.

• Ray Park as Snake-Eyes: A mysterious ninja commando who took a vow of silence, a departure from the character's traditional difficulty in speaking due to grievous vocal wounds, a close member of The Arashikage Ninja Clan, and Storm Shadow's rival. Like his character, Park is a martial arts expert and specifically practiced wushu for the role, as well as studying the character's comic book poses. Park had known of Snake-Eyes because he played with the toys as a child, but he knew very little of the surrounding saga of G.I. Joe versus Cobra, so he read the comics to further understand the character. He was nervous about wearing the mask, which covered his entire head quite tightly, so he requested to practice wearing it at home. He found the full costume, including the visor, very heavy to wear and akin to a rubber band; he had to put effort into moving in it. Leo Howard plays the 10-year-old Snake Eyes.

• Saïd Taghmaoui as "Breaker" (Abel Shaz): He is the team's communications specialist and hacker.

• Karolína Kurková as "Cover Girl" (Courtney Kreiger): Hawk's aide-de-camp. Kurková described going from her modeling career to making such a film as "an amazing experience", but said she was upset on not taking part in any action sequences.

• Brendan Fraser as "Sergeant Stone" (Geoffrey Stone IV): At first, it was reported he was going to play Gung-Ho, but it was later revealed he plays Sergeant Stone.

Cobra

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Cobra Commander (Rex Lewis/The Doctor): The Baroness's brother, a former mild-mannered U.S. Soldier who was thought to be killed during a mission – instead, he became the insane disfigured MARS head scientist. USA TodayKu Klux Klan – and prosthetic makeup underneath it. Upon seeing concept art of the role he was being offered, Levitt signed on because; "I was like, 'I get to be that? You're going to make that [makeup] in real life and stick it on me? Cool. Let me do it.' That's a once-in-lifetime opportunity." Levitt is a friend of Tatum and they co-starred in Stop-Loss and Havoc. His casting provided extra incentive for Tatum to join the film. Levitt described his vocal performance as being half reminiscent of Chris Latta's voice for the 1980s cartoon, but also half his own ideas, because he felt rendering it fully would sound ridiculous. reported that Gordon-Levitt will play multiple roles. Levitt wore a mask – which was redesigned from the comics because the crew found it too reminiscent of The

• Christopher Eccleston as Destro (James McCullen XXIV): A weapons designer and founder of the Military Armament Research Syndicate (MARS) and the main villain in the early part of the film. Irish actor David Murray was cast as Destro, but was forced to drop out when he had problems with his visa. Murray was later cast as an ancestor of James McCullen in a flashback scene.

• Sienna Miller as The Baroness (Ana Lewis/Anastascia DeCobray): A spy and sister of Cobra Commander. Years before the film, The Baroness was going to marry Duke, but he left her at the altar, due to his guilt over the apparent death of her brother Rex Lewis. Miller auditioned for the part because it did not involve "having a breakdown or addicted to heroin or dying at the end, something that was just maybe really great fun and that people went to see and actually just had a great time seeing". Miller prepared with four months of weight training, boxing sessions and learned to fire live ammunition, gaining five pounds of muscle. She sprained her wrist after slipping on a rubber bullet while filming a fight scene with Rachel Nichols.

• Byung-Hun Lee as Storm Shadow (Thomas Arashikage): Snake-Eyes' rival, both were close members of The Arashikage Ninja Clan. Lee said he did not know G.I. Joe because it is an unknown series in South Korea. Sommers and Bonaventura told him that it was not necessary to watch the cartoons to prepare for the role. Lee was attracted to Storm Shadow's "dual personality", which he stated has "huge pride and honor". Brandon Soo Hoo plays 10-year-old Thomas Arashikage.

• Arnold Vosloo as Zartan: An expert in make-up and disguises serving Destro. He is also Destro's aide-de-camp.

• Kevin J. O'Connor as Doctor Mindbender: A scientist in McCullen's employ who developed the nanomite technology.

Other characters

• Jonathan Pryce as The President of the United States of America.
• Gerald Okamura as The Hard Master: Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow's ninja master.
• Larry Hama as NATO General: His scenes were ultimately cut from the final film.

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