Casting Couch
Brendan Fraser is Gung Ho for GI Joe
Posted by Robert Fure (robert@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 24, 2008
Mummy series actor Brendan Fraser has confirmed that he’ll be taking on a role in the upcoming GI JOE film, bringing the films casting expenditures to just under $12 billion. Fraser will be handling the role of Gung-Ho, a former Marine who joined the Joe team. Hopefully they’re abandoning the original Gung-Ho.
What, you say? Well you see, Gung-Ho was from Louisiana and he was a cajun and had an accent. I do not want Brendan Fraser trying to do that accent. So he should just be some other Marine, rather than butchering his way through some faux-French.
GI JOE hits theaters on August 7th, 2009, and will follow the adventures of an international action team fighting against the evil terrorist group known as COBRA, as well as butting heads with Scottish arms dealer Destro.
Source: Latino Review
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3 Comments
April 24th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Well, you’ll be surprised. He does really good accents. Plus, he’s Canadian, we can pretty much mock the French perfectly on the fly. ;p
April 24th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Hey, if he can pull it off, that’d be great. Though I never really liked Gung-Ho all that much, which is probably why I’m not overly concerned about the accent. They’re doing pretty well on other stuff, like Snake-Eyes’ costume and they seem to grasp Destro’s history ok.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
its not like he is going to look anything like the action figure or cartoon, just a lame black suit. was really hoping this would be a good movie, but just from the pics of the characters, looks to be lame.