Mark Wahlberg has emerged as movie bosses’ favorite to take over the lead role in a planned G.I. Joe reboot. Paramount Pictures executives are revamping the franchise once more, and they are reportedly keen to land the Transformers: Age of Extinction star to portray soldier Conrad S.
Hauser, also known as Duke, sources tell WeGotThisCovered.com. Wahlberg had previously been top of producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura’s casting list when he first began working on 2009’s G.I.
Joe: The Rise of Cobra, but the gig went to Channing Tatum, who reprised the character for the 2013 follow-up, G.I.
Joe: Retaliation. Few details are known about the next G.I. Joe project, tentatively titled G.I.
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