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SuperHeroHype has posted a comprehensive, 4-part report of their time on set of G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra. While some of the information from the interviews have been reported before, there are some new pieces of information of interest to fans:

After the doctor's office, we were shown the inside of a G.I. Joe submarine which was so detailed with complex screens, gadgets and buttons that it could have been a real sub.

Q: What's the name of the sub?
Di Bonaventura: We're actually being asked to change it so I don't have a name for the sub right now. Our name didn't originally clear so we have actually have to come up with a new name.

Q: Cleared by Hasbro?
Di Bonaventura: Whatever the process you do in terms of clearing names for… they may have already had a toy sub with the same name.

Q: This wasn't one of the original toys, right? I mean, there wasn't a sub. I don't remember one.
Di Bonaventura: No. Not to my knowledge.

Q: How much of the movie takes place in the G.I. Joe sub?
Di Bonaventura: Just a couple scenes in this. Two or three scenes.

Q: Pretty nice set for two or three scenes.
Di Bonaventura: Yeah, I know. It's a pretty important moment in the movie.

Q: Who's the captain of the sub?
Di Bonaventura: We don't name him. We're really looking at this scene as really through the eyes of the Joe's. What they're preparing to do, where they're trying to discover McCullen's lab where it's located and they use the sub to get there.

Q: Which Joe's are on board the sub?
Di Bonaventura: Scarlett, Snake, Breaker, Heavy Duty. I may be missing one.

Q: Do the Joe's have their own equipment so this would be their sub, or do they work in tandem with the military.
Di Bonaventura: We play it that they have their own equipment. You know, they have their own resources and it's its own stand-alone unit.

Now some of you may think that the sub is the SHARC. It isn't. The SHARC was already mentioned before by Bonaventura, the sub in question is much bigger. It's most likely not the Remora either, the new sub Shipwreck piloted in the ongoing IDW comics. In addition, Larry Hama's involvement is elaborated upon:

Q: How instrumental has Hasbro been?
Bonaventura: Hasbro is really an important part of this process because they have guys that have lived with this thing since it's been around so they're a really valuable resource to us in terms of what you can and can't do with a character, what the series has done, what the comic book has done. They're almost sort of an instant resource for us and they are true believers in the sense that they are 100% by the mythology and understand it and understand why the decisions are made along the way. We can talk through any questions with them and then we have Larry [Hama]. Larry vetted the script and gave us a few points where he said you can't do that, but you can do this. And Larry is a great sounding board because part of what you want to do is you decide to tell a story that doesn't exist in the comic book itself because in some ways the scale of this is much larger, and so what you want to be able to do play is what if games like, "Okay Larry what if dadadada. Do you think the Baroness could feel this way about Storm Shadow or Snake Eyes?" So you can run by the ideas and what's fun about Larry is Larry is often telling us to be bold. "Don't worry about it. Be bold. You guys understand it. You've got a good footing, take some chances." So he's really understood that we're really faithful to what he created, but at the same time he wants it to move forward too. We're in a really good place and plus we had him in the film. He plays one of the generals in the film.

Ray Park also chimed in about how he the duel he has as Snake Eyes when he takes on Storm Shadow:


Q: How different of a fighting style do you want to make Snake Eyes compared to say, how you did the Darth Maul character?
Park: Well Snake Eyes is straight up my alley to be honest with you because the style that I use the Katana swords, I get to play with ninja styles and I used to do that as a kid anyway. I was a kid in the park thinking he was a ninja. So I got to be that sort of be that kid again in Snake Eyes. Darth Maul is a little bit different because it was a bow staff and it wasn't so much of the Wushu style that I was showing. With Snake Eyes I'm working with the Fire Ranger and the stunt boys. We wanted to show a big range of martial arts they use my style to get to where we were going to get to so we combined all different types of styles of a hybrid. It's not a new style. We're just using everything. Kicking, punching, and especially when it came to the weaponry and the sword work I give my flair. Because that's what I love doing, I love playing with swords, I love spinning swords, I love jumping with swords, and they just left it up to me when it came to the swords because they knew that I was going to add a little twist and a little spin here and a little twirl there. It was very different to work on than before.

Q: Your fight scenes with Storm Shadow, are they going to be a lot more weapons-based or would you rather do more hand to hand?
Park: It's everything. Hand to hand, there's weapons, we introduce an old traditional weapon, but made it more hyper, more modern. I'm not too sure what I can tell you about it, but we're showing something new that you've never seen, I think you've never seen on screen before with myself and Storm Shadow. Especially with me I had to...

Q: Did you do a new kung fu / martial arts move or something?
Park: No, it's not a new martial arts move. I'll give you the basis, I use tonfas in one of the fight scenes. I've never used tonfas in my life so I had to learn how to use tonfas for this.

Q: Can you explain what these are?
Park: They're like a police weapon. It's got the handle and then the stick, so to use it in the martial arts sense in the Japanese martial arts sense, I've never done that before so I panicked a little bit, bought myself a pair of tonfas and just put it in my Wushu flair. The stunt guys taught me what to do, the little tricks, what you can do with a tonfa and then I just went away and just locked myself in a room and started playing them.

Q: Does Storm Shadow have these as well or is he battling with something else?
Park: He has what you expect Storm Shadow to use. He has his swords.

Q: Are the fighting sequences going to be more flashy or do you want it to be a bit more stiff?
Park: It's going to bring out the best in both fight characters, these fight scenes. It's going to show strength of both characters, flamboyancy, and also skill and style and speed. The crew was pumped up when we're doing fight scenes a few weeks ago. We did a whole five days of fights. I lost about fifteen pounds in a few days, it was unbelievable.

Q: Any injuries?
Park: No injuries. Touch wood.

Q: One of the few redeeming things of "Star Wars: Episode I" was the Darth Maul character and the fight scene between Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan; compare the fight scene, like the light saber fight scenes, how different are they?
Park: The fight scene that I've done with Storm Shadow is a lot different than what I did in "Phantom Menace." There's two different movies. We've got light saber and a "Star Wars" movie. In the fight scene that I have with Storm Shadow of course I'm using katana swords, there's hand to hand, there's gymnastics involved. I even put a bit of humor into it, ya know me being a big fan of Snake Eyes, there's a moment that I wanted to give something to the fans and I wanted to have, in the old cartoons Snake Eyes does a little break dancing and so I wanted to have a touch of that in the fight scenes so Stephen [Sommers] gave me that opportunity to do that without over-selling, being too cheesy. I had a brief moment...

Q: Celebrating a victory or something?
Park: It was just a moment in the fight, in the laser room, I worked within the fight scene and it worked within that room. That it wasn't a case of me doing it for the sake of doing it. I did it to get out of a situation and I wanted to do that, and I wanted to do it in a smart way so hopefully it comes across really well.

The bladed tonfas can be seen in the latest trailers, and in G.I. Joe Rise of Cobra Mission Dossier. Fans of Sigma 6 might remember that Snake Eyes' katanas were able to turn into tonfa swords. The Commando version later on down the line sported tonfas with hidden, fold-out blades as well. One version of Snake Eyes that we have yet to see in the movie toyline, is a figure with web gear, and bladed tonfas like in the movie...could this be the next version of Snake Eyes that we'll see? All of the figures of Snake Eyes thus far in the main line are movie accurate....

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