{"id":14339,"date":"2011-06-06T20:10:10","date_gmt":"2011-06-07T01:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14339"},"modified":"2016-02-11T11:40:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T16:40:57","slug":"dwayne-johnson-up-for-gi-joe-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/06\/dwayne-johnson-up-for-gi-joe-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwayne Johnson Up For GI JOE Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DwayneJohnson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-9732\" title=\"DwayneJohnson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/DwayneJohnson-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>One of the few things we\u2019ve known about director  John Chu\u2019s <strong>GI Joe<\/strong> sequel, <strong>GI Joe: Cobra Strikes<\/strong>, is that a majority of the cast  from the original 2009 film would not be back. So who will take their positions?  It looks like one actor stepping up to fight the forces of Cobra is Dwayne  Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Variety is reporting that the actor is currently  in discussions with studio Paramount to play Joe team member  Roadblock.<\/p>\n<p>In the <em>GI Joe<\/em> canon, Roadblock is an infantryman known for his proficiency with a heavy machine gun. As Roadblock is also an aspiring chef I guess we  should just prepare ourselves now for some variation of the line \u201cCan you smell  what Roadblock is cookin\u2019?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20131022075017\/http:\/\/www.showblitz.com\/2011\/06\/duane-the-rock-johnson-to-star-in-gi-joe.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Variety<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The Rock is looking to become Roadblock.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/06\/dwayne-johnson-up-for-gi-joe-sequel\/\" title=\"Dwayne Johnson Up For GI JOE Sequel\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[1527,3792,3793],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14339","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-dwayne-johnson","8":"tag-gi-jo-cobra-strikes","9":"tag-john-chu"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14339"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}