G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra

Since its inception in the '60s, the G.I. Joe franchise has evolved from dolls to "action figures" to comic books, cartoons, and now a big-screen blockbuster. Directed by Stephen Sommers (The Mummy), this live action extravaganza follows the explosive adventures of a diverse and highly specialized military unit (think Village People with guns) as they protect the globe from Cobra - an evil organization lead by a ruthless arms dealer. Fans can expect lots of familiar faces (like Duke, Scarlett, Ripcord, Destro, The Baroness, and of course, Cobra Commander), but will geek-out the most over the battle between everybody's favorite military ninjas, Snake-Eyes and Storm Shadow. If all this sounds a little silly to you, that's 'cause it is. But it's also a heck of a lot of fun. Yo, Joe!

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1. In the four months that Sienna Miller spent weight training in preparation for her role as the Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, she gained five pounds of muscle. Even with the weight gain, she still looked in need of a good meal.
2. Actor Dennis Quaid must have been in quite a hurry to get through his participation in G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra. It only took him two months.
3. At first Channing Tatum didn't want to appear in G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra thinking it glorified war. He finally read the script and realized the film was actually a sci-fi action thriller and changed his mind. We all know what ASS-u-me-ing does....
4. G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra star Dennis Quaid described his character Hawk as "a mixture between Chuck Yeager, Sgt. Rock, and a naïve Hugh M. Hefner." A naïve Hugh Hefner? Oxymoron anyone?
5. The filmmakers of G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra thought the mask from the 1985 original film looked too much like a Ku Klux Klan mask so they completely redesigned it. The Commander was evil, but not that evil.
6. Sienna Miller accepted the role of the Baroness in G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra because it did not involve "having a breakdown, addicted to heroin, or dying at the end. Something that was really great fun and that people went to see and actually had a great time seeing and weren't left damaged.." Filming was maybe not so much fun since she ended up spraining her wrist and getting burned while shooting.
7. Although real invisibility is impossible, Director Stephen Sommers managed to achieve something close with "virtual invisibility" in his film G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra with the use of camouflage cameras that projected the view from a soldier's back onto their front.
8. As a child, actor Ray Park remembers playing with G.I. Joe's Snake-Eyes action figure.  As an adult, Park takes on the role of Snake-Eyes in G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra, and would later get to play with himself... As an action figure.
9. G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra actor Dennis Quaid was a real charmer... Not of snakes, but of people. So much so, that film screenwriter, Stuart Beattie, created 10-15 more scenes for him.
10. In the film G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra, 20th character Destro headed M.A.R.S. Industries, which stood for "Military Armaments Research Syndicate" and was a reference to Mars, the Roman God of War. Destro's men were from M.A.R.S., there were no women from V.E.N.U.S.