It’s no secret that the G.I. Joe franchise hasn’t had the best of luck when it comes to movies. G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, G.I. Joe: Retaliation and Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins were all critical disappointments, and the latter movie bombed especially hard at the box office. Now Paramount Pictures is looking to reboot the property once again, and it reportedly is taking an unexpected approach for more than one reason to make this happen.
According to THR, Max Landis, who’s written movies like Chronicle and Bright, has been selected to pen a treatment for a new G.I. Joe movie. Landis, the son of director John Landis, has been largely been absent from Hollywood in recent years after being accused of sexual and emotional abuse by several women in the late 2010s. He last wrote a screenplay for 2020’s Shadow in the Cloud, and while the Chloë Grace Moretz-led movie ended up being completely rewritten by Roseanne Liang, he retained his writer credit.
