Two Different ‘G.I. Joe’ Movies In Early Works At Paramount Between Danny McBride & Max Landis

There are two different G.I. Joe movies in early development, Deadline has confirmed, between The Righteous Gemstones star/creator Danny McBride and American Ultra scribe Max Landis.

We hear Landis has a treatment while McBride is in talks to write a treatment. Know that Paramount has myriad Transformers projects in early stages as well. You’ll remember coming off of Steven Caple Jr.’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts there was a tip off to a Transformers-G.I. Joe crossover movie. That concept isn’t out of sight, out of mind.

Transformers producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura is also the producer on the G.I. Joe movies.  

Landis, the son of filmmaker John Landis, made bank by selling three pitches out of college in a six-month time frame early on in his career. His script for Chronicle landed on the Black List and ultimately sold to 20th Century Fox and Davis Entertainment.