Even though 2013’s GI Joe: Retaliation was a pretty significant step-up from its predecessor, Rise of Cobra, Paramount and Hasbro decided to start from scratch with Snake Eyes: GI Joe Origins but it doesn’t generate the same level of optimism as Bumblebee did for the Transformers franchise.

Henry Golding stars as GI Joe’s resident ninja Snake Eyes for this July’s reboot of the GI Joe movie series, showing Snake Eyes’ training with the Arashikage and his relationship with friend/future enemy Storm Shadow, played by Andrew Koji.

It was a massive week of news as Disney and Sony dissolve their Spider-Man deal, Disney announces three new MCU Disney+ shows, including Moon Knight, Ewan McGregor is officially back as Obi-Wan for a Disney+ Star War series, Bond 25 has an official title and much more in the latest News Shotgun.

When almost the entire team is wiped out by Cobra, Roadblock must pull together the remaining Joes, find out who set them up and take them out.

GI Joe: Retaliation is a huge step up from the original Joe movie but it still has a ways to go to being a great action franchise

This week in the Shotgun we found out that James Cameron is only making Avatar movies, a bunch of casting news, TV renewals and cancellations are coming out and Marion Cotillard adds to the controversy surrounding her Dark Knight Rises character.

The Rock takes control of the GI Joes as they set out on a mission of revenge after Cobra wipes out almost the entire team. Bruce Willis co-stars. *A new full trailer just came out with a ton of new footage*

We review the big screen debut of Hasbro’s other giant toyline with GI Joe: Rise of Cobra.