But for ****'s sake, get rid of Tatum and find someone who is actually a Joe fan to consult on the script.
That's the best thing the sequel has going for it, it is being written by Zombieland screenwriters
Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick. The first movie Wernick made was a stop motion GI Joe movie when he was a kid, and Reese has said, "we're not allowed to talk about what the movie's about, but just know that we have a deep affection for GI Joe and that we'll bring our absolute best to it."
Additionally, although director John Chu's track record is almost exclusively ****** films that I wouldn't watch if you paid me, but I think he's got the right idea:
[G.I.] Joe, to me, is iconic. It is as American as Coke and the Boy Scouts. To have that kind of history in a brand is so rare these days. And that is so powerful. So you can’t treat Joe like its just another action movie. You can’t treat Joe as just another petty commercial movie. Joe has history. Joe has always been a part of what America is, and now the world. What it means to be a leader and a hero. For me, it is about the fun stuff like Storm Shadow and Snake Eyes, and all the gadgets. All of that stuff. But it has heart. Its heart is what America, and what heroes and leaders around the world, strive to be. I think that is what the brand needs. It needs the respect to be treated in that way.
If Tatum is returning, then I hope it's just so they can kill him off early on. Nichols is hot, but I can take or leave her. Sienna Miller was great as the Baroness, but they screwed up that character so bad I won't miss her.