Retaliation Writers Want to Bring The Baroness Back For G.I. Joe 3

Fans of the G.I. Joe franchise were likely pleased by the news that Paramount Pictures had decided to move forward with a third installment following G.I. Joe: Retaliation’s impressive $132 million worldwide box-office debut. Other than the studios reported determination to shoot G.I. Joe 3 in 3D, details about the film are, understandably, few.

We were able to chat with the G.I. Joe Retaliation screenwriters, Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, recently and discovered that the pair are actively in the process of breaking the story for the third film. The Zombieland co-writers were looking at a wall of story ideas and notes for G.I. Joe 3 as we spoke. When asked what sorts of story ideas they were playing with, the scribes said that they wanted to “resurrect the Baroness like a zombie” in this next one. Now, the Barnoness didn’t actually die in the first film, so she wouldn’t need resurrection as such. We think the team just has zombies on the brain as they’ve recently launched their Amazon Zombieland pilot. They also may have meant that they’d like to see the character receive a “proper” treatment versus what was – in the minds of many fans – an odd interpretation of the iconic Joe villainess in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. It’s interesting that they called out the Baroness specifically, though, as she was one of the few villains not mentioned in Retaliation.

The  writing team also stressed that Dwayne Johnson’s Roadblock would absolutely be a part of the third film, which is no real surprise, and that Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes were also likely to return. In our recent interview with Johnson (seen above) the actor jokingly said, "I'm leading the Joe's so I better, or there's a problem" when asked if he'd be back. It should be noted that Reese and Wernick haven’t officially been tapped to write G.I. Joe 3. They feel fairly confident in terms of the financial return on the second film though, saying, “It was made for $50 million less and is projected to make $100 more, so I’d call that a success.” We will keep you updated as details on the project emerge.

Roth Cornet is an Entertainment Editor for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @RothCornet and IGN at Roth-IGN.

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