Last week
Deadline's sources broke the story that Paramount had delayed
G.I. Joe: Retaliation so that they could include additional scenes for Channing Tatum's character Duke, and to also prevent his premature death. Tatum over the past year has seen his star rise with hit films
The Vow and
21 Jump Street under his belt. The actor also has Steven Soderbergh's male stripper film
Magic Mike coming out very soon. If it's a hit you could understand Paramount's reluctance to kill him off and limit him to just a brief cameo.
"You have to have the exact right amount of Chan."
"I don't know. Truly," Tatum said when asked if the rumors we'd see more of him in the revamped sequel are true. "I haven't seen the movie. I did my part and then all this stuff is going on, so they haven't come to talk to me about anything. They talk about a lot of stuff; who knows if it's the industry or the actual studio? You never know."
G.I. Joe Retaliation stars Channing Tatum, D.J. Cotrona, Byung-hun Lee, Ray Park, Adrianne Palicki, Jonathan Pryce, RZA, Ray Stevenson, and will be released
June 29, 2012 sometime in March.
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