'G.I. Joe' Director Makes Everything Big...Except Sienna Miller's Chest

I'm in a quandry over G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra. Because Transformers was so much fun, I've got high hopes for it. Sort of. On the other hand, the "best" movie Stephen Sommers has directed is the first Mummy movie, and after that, it's just garbage: Van Helsing, Mummy Dos, Deep Rising. So I can't say I like what he brings to the project. Sommers is talking G.I. Joe this week, telling Entertainment Weekly that he drew some inspiration for the action in his new movie from the Connery- era Bond films. Lamenting how Bond has become Jason Bourne over the past couple of years - a necessary move from the silly, if you ask me - Sommers says, "In a very contemporary way, G.I. Joe is inspired by the memory of the kind of movies I saw when I was younger. 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," shouts the director, with hyperbole unchained. And that's the kind of thing that worries me, frankly. Remember in Close Encounters how Richard Dreyfuss just kept piling stuff onto his Devil's Tower model, making it bigger and bigger, before it finally took up the whole house? I think that's how Stephen Sommers makes movies: The bigger, the better, no matter what. Because, really, even being Thunderball times six would suffice. However, bigger may not be better in the case of Sienna Miller, the lovely yet off-kilter young co- star of the film. She plays The Baroness in G.I. Joe and claimed last summer that Sommers demanded that they overload her bra with rubber enhancements to make her more va-va-voom. Said Miller at the time, "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." Sommers denies it, telling EW, "Everybody here laughed because they know I would never say that to an actress." He adds, "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." Perhaps he's learned some restraint, after all.

Comments

[Will]

When are we going to see an actual trailer for this one? Will the August release date mean a late/post Transformers start for the marketing push?

[Get The Big Picture]

That's a good question. If I remember correctly, there's something coming in the Super Bowl.