G.I. JOE Lady Jaye Series In The Works At Amazon From Former DAREDEVIL Showrunner Erik Oleson

G.I. JOE Lady Jaye Series In The Works At Amazon From Former DAREDEVIL Showrunner Erik Oleson

It looks like the G.I. Joe cinematic universe just got a little bit bigger as it's being reported that Amazon is in the early stages of developing a new live-action series centered on Lady Jaye!

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By RohanPatel - Feb 25, 2021 08:02 AM EST
Filed Under: G.I. Joe
Source: Deadline

Deadline is reporting that Paramount Television Studios, eOne, and Skydance Television are in the very early stages of developing a live-action G.I. Joe series centered on Lady Jaye for Amazon Prime Video.

Erik Oleson will serve as creator and showrunner. To comic book TV fans, his name should sound familiar as he was the showrunner/executive producer on Daredevil season three, as well as a writer/co-executive producer on Arrow season three. As part of his overall deal with Amazon Studios, in addition to the untitled Lady Jaye series, he's also taking over as the showrunner/executive producer on the second season of Amazon's Carnival Row.  

Along with his other roles, Oleson will executive produce the new show alongside Lorenzo DiBonaventura, who produced the two G.I. Joe films and is also well known for producing all five entries in Paramount's blockbusterTransformers franchise.  

Lady Jaye was initially introduced in the 1984 animated series, before joining the popular action figure line and being written into the comic books the following year. Adrianne Palicki (The Orville; John Wick; Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) previously played the character in her live-action debut in Jon M. Chu's G.I. Joe: Retaliation, but it's unclear if she'll reprise her role for this project or if the upcoming series will go in an entirely different direction with a new actress. 

No further details are currently available, but it seems probable that we could see the show on the streamer sometime in 2022. 

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tmp3
tmp3 - 2/25/2021, 8:46 AM
Oleson's work on Daredevil was [frick]ing awesome

Show has potential for sure
soberchimera
soberchimera - 2/25/2021, 8:48 AM
Can't we just get a halfway decent G.I. Joe reboot? Isn't that why Paramount hired Brian K. Vaughn and all those other writers to streamline their Hasbro IP?
Matador
Matador - 2/25/2021, 9:07 AM
@soberchimera - Geez G.I Joe cannot catch a break here
mastakilla39
mastakilla39 - 2/25/2021, 10:08 AM
@Matador - I think GI Joe sucks without the Ninjas. If you just make a GI Joe film it either ends up like Fast/Furious or Expendables which are just shlocky b movies with huge budgets. Its neither unique or has an interesting story. I think that's why A-team, Baywatch, and Charlie's Angels flopped too.
Matador
Matador - 2/25/2021, 11:00 AM
@mastakilla39 - GI Joe sucked was because the story sucked in the movies and they really didn't stick to the source materials that pre-existed not to mention the actors in those parts just didn't fit the bill.

I actually like the A-Team it was a fun movie.
dragon316
dragon316 - 2/25/2021, 1:18 PM
@Matador - gijoe sequel was better what you except story good soldiers vs bad soldiers good stop bad there is no story behind that same with transformers no story behind good vs bad bots
Matador
Matador - 2/26/2021, 6:04 AM
@dragon316 - GI Joe sequel I hardly remember it only best part was the ninjas action scenes but same goes for the first one when they wore those awful super suits. A good movie you'll watch more than once and you will remember more portions of the movie. None of the Joe's stood out and I am referencing the cartoon show too. I think that the main goal for a good GI Joe movie all these guys are active duty military soldiers that were pulled from there assigned military branch to serve one purpose and stop global terrorisms.

As for Transformers only two good movies is the first one and Bumblebee story wise but your right Good bot vs bad bot and they ignored any of the depth of the story it was just rock'em sock'em Bayformers it was all just eye candy enjoyed for that but hated it as a Transformers fan.
Kumkani
Kumkani - 2/25/2021, 8:50 AM
Oh this could be good if he brings that Daredevil season three energy
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/25/2021, 8:51 AM
Wish we could see his DDS4. His Typhoid Mary idea sounded so cool.
TheJester187
TheJester187 - 2/25/2021, 8:51 AM
Destro better be in this since they wanna use week characters. But whatever.
ModHaterSLADE
ModHaterSLADE - 2/25/2021, 8:52 AM
Daredevil showrunner?
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 2/25/2021, 8:56 AM
I wouldn't mind Palicki to return. She was great in Agents of SHIELD, and do wanna see more of her in similar stuff. I'll admit though, don't remember anything from the movie though
UXASIS
UXASIS - 2/25/2021, 8:57 AM
Off-topic:

First look at Blackfire from Titans S3
Battabing
Battabing - 2/25/2021, 8:59 AM
@DARKSEIDDIS -
Nice!
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 2/25/2021, 8:58 AM
Look i love GI Joe and the characters are great, but one of the best parts about it is them as a team fighting together as a unit. Spin-offs are cool, but I want a proper GI Joe reboot. Like what Bumblebee did for Transformers
dragon316
dragon316 - 2/25/2021, 1:20 PM
@Dredd97 - bumblebee was not great if bumblebee was good it be at billion like both transformers sequels made back to back new fans don’t transformers looking cartoons they like to look realistic
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 2/25/2021, 2:40 PM
@dragon316 -
Feralwookiee
Feralwookiee - 2/25/2021, 9:00 AM
Hollywood is literally devoid of any original ideas.
FlixMentallo21
FlixMentallo21 - 2/25/2021, 7:33 PM
@Feralwookiee - There's gotta be some way to end the creative drought that's been hanging over Hollywood since at least the '07 Writer's Strike...
TheUnworthyThor
TheUnworthyThor - 2/25/2021, 9:03 AM
I mean cool but on Amazon? Why not on their new Paramount+? Will it be in the same universe as the Snake Eyes movie?
SirDuckAlot
SirDuckAlot - 2/25/2021, 9:08 AM
How about you just make a GI Joe show?
inkniron
inkniron - 2/25/2021, 9:09 AM
I mean, if you want to focus on a female character, my choice would have been Scarlet. Focusing on a single character kind of misses the point of GI JOE though. Sure they had the original action figure, but the Hasbro property revolved around a pretty diverse TEAM.
bl0odwerk
bl0odwerk - 2/25/2021, 9:24 AM
@inkniron - Cover Girl never gets any love...
inkniron
inkniron - 2/25/2021, 9:29 AM
@Bl0odwerK - She got plenty. It was all off panel though.
bl0odwerk
bl0odwerk - 2/25/2021, 3:16 PM
@inkniron - Maybe a Brazzers series?
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 2/25/2021, 9:14 AM
GI Joe is utterly fascinating to me. (Child of the 80's, so not a shocker.) It's this expression of rah-rah military fetishism, but also tries to be completely apolitical, so it can remain palatable to everyone in the way that superheroes tend to be.

I'm not sure if I think being overtly political would help to make the franchise more interesting, but it does seem to struggle to gain popularity outside of the nostalgia sector. My instinct is always that smart politics is interesting. And I don't necessarily mean "smart" as in my own kind of lefty leanings, but a genuinely thoughtful and nuanced ideological construction of the world that actually needs a GI Joe.

There have got to be ways of exploring that military space which can be fun, and also more meaningful than just "bad guys are bad, patriots go brrrr brrrr".

Anyway off-topic, thinking about the Rangers of the New Republic, I saw this online and I don't hate it.



(Though maybe not that off-topic, as Star Wars operates as possibly the most potent mainstreaming of military iconography and gun-culture into a politically-semi-lefty space, but I don't want to try to pick that apart too much right now. I just like the idea of Frankie Adams occupying the hole left by Carano.)
GhostDog
GhostDog - 2/25/2021, 9:57 AM
@Spock0Clock - a Frankie Adams fan
Reeds2Much
Reeds2Much - 2/25/2021, 9:59 AM
@Spock0Clock - I come from a long line of military medics and nurses, and growing up watching GIJoe really did a number on my perception of what military life was like. Like I was genuinely livid my nonna never talked about playing hockey against terrorists to secure doomsday weather machines.
CorndogBurglar
CorndogBurglar - 2/25/2021, 10:10 AM
@Spock0Clock - To be fair, it can be "rah-rah military" while also being apolitical. It really should be, in all honesty. Even a government's military is basically following orders of whatever political view is in power. The military itself, as a whole, isn't political at all.

Sure, all the soldiers have their own beliefs, but the beliefs of the individuals aren't what gives them orders.

Perfect example: It really didn't matter what anyone thought about Vietnam. You can, and honestly should still be "rah-rah military" in the sense that you support the soldiers themselves that are over there. You certainly don't have to agree with the "why" of them being there though. But the "why" isn't on the military. Thats all on the suits in office.
Spock0Clock
Spock0Clock - 2/25/2021, 11:00 AM
@CorndogBurglar - In order to leave politics out of GI Joe, you have to leave politics out of Cobra, too. And you end up with a cartoonish villain that just wants a vague ambition of world domination.

Look at Hydra in Winter Soldier. Markus/McFeely/Russos introduced a lot of 2014 real world politics to that story, but it basically boiled down to signature drone strikes are bad and radical transparency is good. And even 7 years later, we can go back and watch that movie and see themes that are more and more pressing to us now, such as the infiltration of traitorous fascists into our government, intelligence, and law enforcement communities, or the preponderance of algorithms to predict and manipulate human behavior.

Winter Soldier was sharp when it came out, and it's still pretty sharp now, because it's unflinchingly political.

And while I need to push back that the military isn't involved in the "why", because the brass most certainly is, their very existence is a political statement. A standing army is a political statement. (Not partisan or even controversial, but political all the same.) When you take the "why" out of the military, it's not really a story, but just an army recruitment ad.
4thMaster
4thMaster - 2/25/2021, 11:05 AM
@Spock0Clock - I’m so down for injecting some politics into GI Joe. It doesn’t even have to be that complex, I wouldn’t expect them to go into complex political theory and the values of differing governance types.
A lot can be done with just the fact Cobra is a fascist-leaning organization running a country-less mercenary/terrorist army and with the fact the USA has a fully armed military branch, that can seemingly operate freely all over the world, focused almost solely on fighting this one specific organization. There’s interesting political angles and complexities to be explored there.
Dredd97
Dredd97 - 2/25/2021, 3:59 PM
@Spock0Clock - I think you hit the nail right on the head. Winter Soldier really did a great job at that, and if they can find a way to do that with Joes/Cobra, and even raise some ethical dilemmas, they'll have something unique at least. Heaven forbid we get some thoughtfulness out of action movies
FlixMentallo21
FlixMentallo21 - 2/25/2021, 7:34 PM
@Spock0Clock - Larry Hama's run on the comic fit the bill for most of what you described.
FusionWarrior
FusionWarrior - 2/25/2021, 9:17 AM
Alright a live-action G.I. Joe TV Series, Lady Jaye seems like a random choice, but I know she's popular and I hope you looks like her G1 Counterpart!
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