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HISSTANK · 08-01-2009, 08:20 PM

Originally posted by: Shin Densetsu @ Hisstank.com

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SFGate has posted an article about Stuart Beattie, the screenwriter for G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra. After years of screenwriting, he is finally getting the recognition he deserves:

Stuart Beattie knows better than most the rude realities of screenwriting credits. He created the Jack Sparrow character in his early draft of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," but received no "written by" attribution. On Russell Crowe's "3:10 to Yuma," Beattie spent 18 months crafting an updated version of the 1957 Western and again got snubbed. But for "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," Beattie boasts top billing as primary author of the action-movie screenplay.

Hired to crank out a script in six weeks to beat the 2007 writers strike deadline, Beattie bulldozed through a basic story structure celebrating the iconic action figure's "can-do spirit," he recalls. "The producers started giving me ideas - Pakistan, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, jihad - and I said: 'That's not G.I. Joe. He's a fantasy. You don't want to be calling out news headlines.' "

Post-strike, Beattie took up daily residence on the "G.I. Joe" set, where he pounded out scene rewrites minutes before cameras began rolling. "It was crazy," he says. " I remember being at home once at 7:30 in the morning when I got a call from the set: 'We need a line! We need a line!' They were just standing around the set waiting to shoot and needed dialogue. It literally went that fast."

Beattie's most notable contribution to the movie's succession of action sequences centers on the collapse of the Eiffel Tower. "That idea came from the G.I. Joe universe, which talks about these warheads that eat metal," he says. "I asked myself, 'What's the most iconic structure in the world that's made of metal?' and you instantly think of the Eiffel Tower. Everyone loved the idea of seeing the Eiffel Tower toppled. It survived all these wars, it survived Hitler, but it didn't survive 'G.I. Joe.'

Read More: Stuart Beattie Gets Top Billing On G.I. Joe Rise Of Cobra @ G.I. Joe - HissTank.com.

08-01-2009, 08:20 PM	#1550
HISSTANK Join Date: Nov 2008 Posts: 6,797	Originally posted by: Shin Densetsu @ Hisstank.com Quote: SFGate has posted an article about Stuart Beattie, the screenwriter for G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra. After years of screenwriting, he is finally getting the recognition he deserves: Stuart Beattie knows better than most the rude realities of screenwriting credits. He created the Jack Sparrow character in his early draft of "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl," but received no "written by" attribution. On Russell Crowe's "3:10 to Yuma," Beattie spent 18 months crafting an updated version of the 1957 Western and again got snubbed. But for "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra," Beattie boasts top billing as primary author of the action-movie screenplay. Hired to crank out a script in six weeks to beat the 2007 writers strike deadline, Beattie bulldozed through a basic story structure celebrating the iconic action figure's "can-do spirit," he recalls. "The producers started giving me ideas - Pakistan, Afghanistan, al Qaeda, jihad - and I said: 'That's not G.I. Joe. He's a fantasy. You don't want to be calling out news headlines.' " Post-strike, Beattie took up daily residence on the "G.I. Joe" set, where he pounded out scene rewrites minutes before cameras began rolling. "It was crazy," he says. " I remember being at home once at 7:30 in the morning when I got a call from the set: 'We need a line! We need a line!' They were just standing around the set waiting to shoot and needed dialogue. It literally went that fast." Beattie's most notable contribution to the movie's succession of action sequences centers on the collapse of the Eiffel Tower. "That idea came from the G.I. Joe universe, which talks about these warheads that eat metal," he says. "I asked myself, 'What's the most iconic structure in the world that's made of metal?' and you instantly think of the Eiffel Tower. Everyone loved the idea of seeing the Eiffel Tower toppled. It survived all these wars, it survived Hitler, but it didn't survive 'G.I. Joe.' Read More: Stuart Beattie Gets Top Billing On G.I. Joe Rise Of Cobra @ G.I. Joe - HissTank.com. __________________