What Kind of Cobra Commander Will We Get?

While we’re still waiting to see the first teaser trailer for Stephen Sommer’s G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra, the flick’s producer, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, recently talked with MTV about how Cobra Commander, played by Joseph Gordon Levitt, will be represented in the movie.

Here’s some excerpts from the interview:

“As we see it, he’s a very twisted character,” producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura exclaimed to MTV News, telling us the key to Cobra Commander lies in his gritty past…and that we’ll see every grimy piece of it. “As the backstory evolves, you discover why his personality [is like that].”

“We’ll see Cobra Commander in the Cobra mask [but] it will not be like the show,” said di Bonaventura, who also promised they aren’t going to the comics for that one either. “I found some of the [mask] aspects a little KKK for me,” he said, “so we tried to steer away from that image. We thought that might be a little much.”

Head on over here to read some more, where Bonaventura also talks about Cobra’s unique voice.

G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra opens August 7, 2009.