In a new interview with ComicBook’s Chris Killian, Jon M. Chu hinted at returning to the ‘G.I. Joe’ movie franchise.
“‘G.I Joe,’ I’m in ‘Wicked’ world right now. I mean I love the ‘GI Joe’ World, ‘Snake Eyes,’ all those people. Henry Golding, I loved his version of Snake Eyes,” the director said. “Um, you never know. You never know, but right now I still got movie two to go to and I um, my Joe is Fiyero.”
‘G.I. Joe’ has become popular again in toys and comics, thanks to Hasbro’s ‘G.I. Joe Classified’ line and Skybound’s ‘Energon Universe.’ Fans hope it can return to film as well. The 2021 ‘Snake Eyes’ movie was meant to kickstart the franchise, but it didn’t do well at the box office.
‘Wicked Part 1’ will be released in theaters on November 22. Like the musical, it will end with ‘Defying Gravity.’ This will lead to ‘Wicked Part 2,’ which is set for release on November 21, 2025. With two films and the work needed to make the second one a success, it’s clear why Jon M. Chu wants to focus on ‘Wicked.’
“This idea of looking at the American story, flipping it. … Maybe the yellow brick road isn’t the way to go,” Chu previously said of what he loves about the story of ‘Wicked.’ “Maybe you need to go on your own path, and maybe there is no wizard on the other side waiting to give you your heart’s desire.”
He continued, “Maybe you have to figure it out yourself, and maybe there’s no real such thing as happy endings, that the path just keeps going and you just have to keep walking.”
“Everyone knew this was a once-in-a-lifetime experience, once in a lifetime to make a movie of this scale, of this moment when cinema is being questioned of what place it has in our life,” the director noted in a separate chat. “We had to shoot the moon.”
‘Wicked,’ written by Winnie Holzman and Dana Fox, stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba Thropp, the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West, and Ariana Grande as Galinda, the future Good Witch of the South.
