Feb 6 2008Model-Cum-Actress To Play Model-Cum-Militant
Like passengers boarding a sinking ship, yet another performer has joined the roster of the big screen G.I. Joe, in a role we didn't even know was being cast. Supermodel Karolína Kurková is rumored to be filling the role of Cover Girl in the coming film adaptation of the popular toy/comic/cartoon/veiled-jingoist-propaganda franchise. For the uninitiated, Cover Girl is apparently a former model that--in an effort to eschew being dismissed as "just another pretty face"--joined the decidedly unfeminine ranks of the military and eventually G.I. Joe (similar to how Kurková herself, to show she's more than just a pretty face, is totally getting into acting, and probably singing).
With this increasingly expansive cast--now adding obscure model characters--are the writers just throwing darts at the "COLLECT THEM ALL!" guide on the back of the old G.I. Joe toy cards to decide who to include? It's only a matter of time before we see The Fridge, Sgt. Slaughter, or that guy that for some reason has a crocodile.
Such a large cast for a movie based on toys... Good thing this is being handled by the director of The Mummy Returns or I'd worry the characters might appear woefully underwritten.
Thanks to Kevin for this one.
Reader Comments
1. spacemonkey - February 6, 2008 6:31 PM
HAHA
Crocmaster... i totally remember that guy. Ya I was a Joe fan when I was 11, but not too faitful in a big screen adaptation. Must all my childhood memories be bastardized??? Whats next... Ghouls n Ghosts?
2. Anexio - February 6, 2008 9:04 PM
Damn, you know who would be a good GI Joe, David Cross.
I pick DC because just like GI Joe he doesnt have a weiner and he's totally masculine.
3. Drunkman - February 7, 2008 10:20 AM
The REAL question is: who's going to play Snowjob?
4. proteon - February 7, 2008 11:09 AM
FIRST!
5. frank - February 7, 2008 11:59 AM
shes soon to make an internet nerd-cum-again
6. Bobeyo - February 7, 2008 2:26 PM
Well, if you ask me, this movie now has one redeeming quality.
7. Bobeyo - February 7, 2008 2:26 PM
Well, if you ask me, this movie now has one redeeming quality.