Stephen Sommers Talks About ‘GI Joe’

Stephen Sommers recently spoke with Entertainment Weekly about his upcoming adaptation of ‘G.I. Joe’. Â  Among the topics, he explained what inspired him in dealing with the film.

“It’s funny now how Bond wants to be Bourne. I loved ‘Quantum of Solace’, but it was like, man, this is a completely different movie to the Bonds I grew up with. In a very contemporary way, ‘G.I. Joe’ is inspired by the memory of the kind of movies I saw when I was younger.”

Sommers also revealed one scene from the upcoming film.

“I remember being in the theater for ‘Thunderball’ and the big underwater battle at the end of that movie just blew my socks off. In ‘G.I. Joe’ there’s an underwater battle under the polar icecap that’s Thunderball times 10.”

Sommers also spoke up about star Sienna Miller’s (who plays Baroness in the film) recent claims that her breasts were “enhanced” for the film by saying, in the film, she wears,  “a tight black leather outfit. And much bigger boobs…. They gave me these things that looked like chicken fillets.   The director said, ‘I’m gonna be honest, I like girls with big boobs,’ and I don’t have them so we made them bigger…. At least he’s honest. But I was mildly offended.”

Says Sommers, “”Everybody here laughed because they know I would NEVER say that to an actress. Â  I guess the costume department gave her a tight fitting bra, but no one gave her rubber breasts or whatever. It is 100 percent Sienna Miller.”

Source: Entertainment Weekly