Skip Woods was rewriting the script by March 2007, and he added the Alex Mann character from the British Action Man toy line. In their script, the Rex character is corrupted and mutated into the Cobra Commander, whom Destro needs to lead an army of supersoldiers. Bonaventura felt, 'What stand for, and what Duke stands for specifically in the movie, is something that I'd like to think a worldwide audience might connect with.' īy February 2005, Paul Lovett and David Elliot, who wrote Bonaventura's Four Brothers, were rewriting Gordon's draft. Beforehand, Don Murphy was interested in filming the property, but when the Iraq War broke out, he considered the subject matter inappropriate, and chose to develop Transformers ( another Hasbro toy line) instead. Bonaventura wanted to depict the origin story of certain characters, and introduced the new character of Rex, to allow an exploration of Duke. Gordon as screenwriter, because they liked his script for 300. Goldner and Bonaventura spent three months working out a story, and chose Michael B. Goldner and Bonaventura worked together before, creating toy lines for films Bonaventura produced as CEO of Warner Bros. In 2003, Lorenzo di Bonaventura was interested in making a film about advanced military technology Hasbro's Brian Goldner called him and suggested to base the film on the G.I. As late as 1999, there had been rumors that a film from Threshold Entertainment was still a possibility, but that project was canceled. Instead they chose to concentrate their efforts on their Mortal Kombat films. In 1994, Larry Kasanoff and his production company, Threshold Entertainment, had held the rights to do a live-action G.I. It was directed by Stephen Sommers from a screenplay by Stuart Beattie, David Elliot, and Paul Lovett and a story by Michael B. The first film in the series, released on August 7, 2009. Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brian Goldner and Stephen Davis Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Brian Goldner and Bob Ducsay

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