G.I. Jolt

Is the August 7th flick G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra going to be the next Land of the Lost?

The question surrounds a post on Don Murphy's message board, that has since been removed said that a test screening of the upcoming action film scored the worst marks in the studio's history.

As a result suit Brad Weston had the film's director Stephen Sommers fired and locked out of the editing room.

Then director/film editor Stuart Baird was brought in to save the film, while producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura was told "his services were no longer needed on the film either".

When word of the firing started to bubble up he "was summoned back to the editing room but only to save appearances, Baird is still editing the movie with studio input."

Latino Review reported that the film is tracking quite well, and thus di Bonaventura told them

"It's completely untrue he was never asked to leave or been fired or any of that. That’s ridiculous. The movie tested very well. Everybody was happy, the studio was happy, the filmmakers were happy, the audience was happy with the movie. We had three test screenings, three different times and tested it and each time it just got better and better. We started off in a good place and we ended up in even in a better place, which is what you hope on a film from testing it."

"...you constantly work and work and work and you make it better and better. We had a delay on visual effects so we waited a long time to finish the movie but that’s the only thing. I don’t really know why that would be interpreting it negatively but I guess it was".

MTV's Josh Horowitz had a chance to chat with “G.I. Joe”’s Cobra Commander, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and asked him to comment. “I just heard about it. I’ve been shooting,” Gordon-Levitt said.

“What can you say? People like to do that [gossip].”

Adding “‘G.I. Joe’ is like playing with toys. It’s very simple and its really fun and that’s all.”

Gordon-Levitt had nothing but positive things to say about working with Sommers.

The Wolverine leak all over again?

Did someone plant the news to generate buzz?

Can't say for sure...but the timing proves curious since another toy based pic is about to open called Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen...