{"id":2334882,"date":"2026-03-18T13:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2334882"},"modified":"2026-03-18T13:26:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T13:26:21","slug":"paramount-pictures-rejects-max-landis-g-i-joe-pitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/paramount-pictures-rejects-max-landis-g-i-joe-pitch\/","title":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures Rejects Max Landis &#8216;G.I. Joe&#8217; Pitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0023400\/\">Paramount Pictures<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0130376\/\">Hasbro<\/a> have passed on Max Landis&#8217; pitch for a <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0086719\/\">G.I. Joe<\/a> reboot, according to Variety. This report follows the news that surfaced on Feb. 27, suggesting that <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0858764\/\">Paramount<\/a> was developing two different pitches for a new <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0086719\/\">G.I. Joe<\/a> movie. One would be written by The Righteous Gemstones creator <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1104131\/\">Danny McBride<\/a>, while the other would be from <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm10305183\/\">Landis<\/a>, whose previous credits include <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1706593\/\">Chronicle<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt5519340\/\">Bright<\/a>. Paramount is reportedly still working with McBride to develop his pitch.<\/p>\n<p>Variety says Paramount passed on Landis&#8217; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0086719\/\">G.I. Joe<\/a> pitch due to creative differences. Reached for comment by the trade, Landis said his pitch came together &#8220;very serendipitously based on the coolness of the weird and subversive idea.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paramount Pictures and Hasbro have passed on Max Landis&#8217; pitch for a G.I. Joe reboot, according to Variety. This report follows the news that surfaced on Feb. 27, suggesting that Paramount was developing two different pitches for a new G.I. Joe movie. One would be written by The Righteous Gemstones creator Danny McBride, while the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2334883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2334882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Paramount-Pictures-Rejects-Max-Landis-GI-Joe-Pitch.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2334884,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334882\/revisions\/2334884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2334883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}