Evan Daugherty - P 2013
It’s Go Joe time for Evan Daugherty.
The writer who wrote Snow White and the Huntsman as a spec has nabbed the coveted gig of penning the third installment of Paramount and Hasbro’s G.I. Joe franchise.
Jon M. Chu, who helmed G.I. Joe: Retaliation, is already signed on to return to the director’s chair.
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Details of Daugherty’s take were not revealed.
The Joe movies have not been warmly received critically but have proven to be moneymakers for Paramount. Retaliation, released earlier this year, grossed $371 million worldwide. 2009’s G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra made $302 million.
Lorenzo di Bonaventura is producing.
Daugherty already has a history with Paramount, having been called in for, and impressing execs with, a last-minute rewrite on Ninja Turtles, the studio’s new big-screen take on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that is currently in production with Michael Bay’s Platinum Dunes producing.
He also co-wrote Summit’s much-anticipated adaptation of the Veronica Roth YA novel Divergent, starring Shailene Woodley.
Daughterty is repped by UTA, Benderspink and McKuin Frankel.
