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Huffington Post recently had a chance to interview G. I. Joe: Retaliation Script Writers; Paul Wernick And Rhett Reese. They had many things to say, including their plans for G. I. Joe 3.

The director, Jon Chu, grew up with G.I. Joe as well, and it seems like this is the right team to be putting together a G.I. Joe movie. Why do you think they didn't do that the first time?

Wernick: Well, you know, it's funny. I think there were just a host of problems on that first one, just in terms of, I think, it was up against the writers' strike. And there was just a scramble to get it made. You know, Hasbro was pushing, and there were issues with toys and so forth. Like, there was a roll-out campaign. There was a whole complex issue of movie making and such that outside factors, and assassins kind of just -- you know, it's not for us to judge the first one. There were elements of the first one that we thought were great, that gave us the great gift of launching off into the second one with the bad president, which we thought was a great launching point into "G.I. Joe 2."

The rest of the interview contains spoilers, if you haven't already watched G. I. Joe: Retaliation. To read the rest, take a look after the jump.... [Read More]

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