A trio of actors has joined the cast of G.I. Joe, director Stephen Sommers’ big-screen take on the Hasbro toy line and animated series. The Hollywood Reporter brings word that Rachel Nichols (P2, The Amnityville Horror), Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje (TV’s Lost, Get Rich or Die Tryin’) and Said Taghmaoui (The Kite Runner, Vantage Point) are on board to take on the terrorist group known as Cobra.
Written by Stuart Beattie (30 Days of Night, the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy), the Paramount movie will focus on operatives of the Global Integrated Joint Operating Entity, an elite, international strike force based in Brussels. Nichols will show up as hand-to-hand combat and counterintelligence expert Scarlett. After gaining some notoriety as Mr. Eko on ABC’s Lost, Akinnuoye-Agbaje will play ordnance expert Heavy Duty, while Taghmaoui takes on the role of communications specialist Breaker.
Previously announced cast members include martial arts expert Ray Park (StarWars: Episode I’The Phantom Menace, X-Men) as Snake Eyes, and Sienna Miller (Stardust, Factory Girl) as a spy known as The Baroness. Sommers and partner Bob Ducsay are producing the pic with Lorenzo di Bonaventura and Hasbro’s Brian Goldner, and are looking at an August 2009 release.
