Producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura tells MTV News that Dwayne Johnson's character Roadblock in G.I. Joe 2: Cobra Strikes will play a major part in the pic.
di Bonaventura says "It's a full-on lead role. In a way, he and Snake-Eyes (Ray Park), their stories are really dynamic and very important. (Dwayne) is such a great character to have in 'G.I. Joe 2.' It's an amazing combination. We would not be very good if we didn't fully utilize him, so he's going to have a lot of things to do. It is an ensemble movie, so you have other characters certainly playing it out."
He adds "The ninja fans are going to love it. There's a tremendous amount of it. What's interesting is, we both have that going on in the Snake-Eyes story, but we've found a way to bring that element into the Joes' story. I think anybody who's a fan of dark, in the middle of the night [action with] a dangerous foe arriving, this is a movie for you."
Meantime Deadline New York reports that Adrianne Palicki will play the female lead in the film as Lady Jaye/Alison R. Hart-Burnett. She is the Joe Team’s covert operations specialist
Channing Tatum will reprise his role as Duke in the sequel, and Byung-hun Lee is scheduled to return as well. French actress Elodie Yung will play a ninja member of the Joe squad named Jinx Rapper/actor RZA AKA Robert Diggs amd D.J. Cotrona are cicling roles as well
Jon Chu calls the shots on the film from a Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick script .The film is being shot later this summer and has an August 10th 2012 release date..
di Bonaventura also revealed that plans are still well underway for the as yet Untitled Red Sequel but they want to bring in some new faces to join all the returning cast members Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, and John Malkovich..
"We'll bring in one or two characters that'll play a really big part — maybe three, but definitely one or two. Sometimes there's a tendency to want to do too much of a good thing so you don't really service anything, so we're really trying to stay focused on our core crew with one or two new additions."
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