>>9604010It's Producer, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, who produced Hasbro's movies at Paramount. He hates Cobra Commander after deciding he looks like a Klansman. He's the reason why Hasbro wont let anybody make a hooded Cobra Commander figure.
https://uproxx.com/movies/lorenzo-di-bonaventura-snake-eyes-gi-joe-transformers-rise-of-the-beasts/>"It’s so funny. You know what? I have this funny reaction about Cobra Commander, which is he kind of looks like he’s from the KKK."<Is that why you changed his look so drastically for the Joseph Gordon-Levitt version in The Rise of Cobra?
>"A little bit. Yeah. A little bit. I probably was the first person who went, 'Are you guys sure? Doesn’t he look a little, like from the KKK?' And everybody’s looking at me like, 'How dare you say that.' Some of the Hasbro guys were horrified. It was one of the reasons. The idea of why did you want to cover up his face was also interesting to us. What does he look like?"<I’ve noticed Hasbro hasn’t put out a hooded version in the Classified series. It’s all the face shield. Maybe you influenced that.
>"Yeah. I think I might’ve affected that because I’m just like 'Guys, it’s pretty obvious to me.' They kept saying, 'You have to put it in, you have to put it in.' I’m like, 'I will not put it in, whatever the vibe of that is.'”This guy absolutely doesn't get or understand G.I. Joe, and he's the reason why the past 2 moves were about ninjas. Just read his thoughts on Snake Eyes:
>"What’s great about having fans is they are so passionate, and what can be a burden is that they have a very strict interpretation of things at times. I just thought, first of all, it was really hard when he was in the G.I. Joe movies. He’s really a hard character because he doesn’t say anything. You know what I mean? And you can’t see him. I thought that was the interesting part. What is going on under that helmet? And who is that guy?." 