{"id":1872,"date":"2011-02-26T08:43:12","date_gmt":"2011-02-26T13:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2011-02-28T18:52:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T23:52:02","slug":"gi-joe-movie-watch-2-jon-m-chu-is-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/gi-joe-movie-watch-2-jon-m-chu-is-in\/","title":{"rendered":"GI Joe Movie Watch 2 - Jon M. Chu is in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/gijoemoviewatch.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter\" width=\"360\" height=\"80\"><\/p>\n<p>So it was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=1868\">just the other day<\/a> that we told you <i>Never Say Never<\/i>'s Jon M. Chu was on the short list to direct <i>GI Joe 2<\/i>. Well, that list just got a lot shorter, because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/02\/paramount-drafts-jon-chu-for-g-i-joe-2\/\" target=_blank>Deadline is reporting<\/a> that Chu has officially been given the job.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, Paramount Pictures is in charge of <i>GI Joe<\/i>. And <i>Never Say Never<\/i> was a Paramount release. So Chu makes the studio an assload of money by doing the Bieber biopic, and he's rewarded by getting to do a movie they plan to pour a lot of money into. That seems fair to us.<\/p>\n<p>Now, granted, none of us have seen <i>NSN<\/i>, so we don't know how it is as a movie. But remember that subject and style are two different things: just because it was <b>about<\/b> the Beeb, it doesn't mean the actual <b>directing<\/b> was crap, too.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"We are in the dumbest possible future\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2026\/07\/we-are-in-the-dumbest-possible-future\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">We are in the dumbest possible future<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"GI Joe: Re-Stallion-ation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2012\/01\/gi-joe-re-stallion-ation\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">GI Joe: Re-Stallion-ation<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"GI Joe \"creator\" seeks to regain control of the brand\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2015\/09\/gi-joe-creator-seeks-to-regain-control-of-the-brand\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">GI Joe \"creator\" seeks to regain control of the brand<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"yo - Joes!\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/12\/yo-joes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">yo - Joes!<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How to remove chrome\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2014\/09\/how-to-remove-chrome\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How to remove chrome<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So it was just the other day that we told you Never Say Never's Jon M. Chu was on the short list to direct GI Joe 2. Well, that list just got a lot shorter, because Deadline is reporting that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/02\/gi-joe-movie-watch-2-jon-m-chu-is-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gi-joe-movie-watch","tag-gi-joe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1875,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}