Here's something you don't see every day: a high-profile franchise summer sequel just a month out from release getting delayed by a whopping nine months.  Yet that's exactly what is happening to G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  The sequel/sorta-kinda reboot to 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was set for nationwide release on June 29th, but has been suddenly pushed back to a new release date, on March 29, 2013.

Paramount Pictures has unveiled the final domestic poster for next month's action-figure-based sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  The one sheet has the requisite Photoshop effects, three characters holding guns, one character rocking a sword, and one faceless villain who may or may not also be holding a weapon of some sort.

Yesterday, a new domestic trailer for G.I. Joe: Retaliation dropped plenty of quips, lots of action, and the utter devastation of London thanks to some insidious Cobra machinations.  Today, Paramount Pictures has followed up that theatrical trailer with an international version that actually changes it up a bit.  Those G.I. Joe elements are still present, but there are fewer quips and considerably more ninjas doing ninja stuff.

A full theatrical trailer for the Hasbro sequel G.I. Retaliation has arrived online, setting up the basic story, such as it is, and throwing out a lot of quips, visual effects, action beats, and pretty much everything you'd expect from a G.I. Joe sequel trailer.

Paramount has taken the liberty of issuing three previously-unseen images from G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  While the sequel's predecessor, 2009's goofy action-romp G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra was pretty successful commercially and found some fans for its unapologetic and agreeable stupidity, these new pictures highlight two crucial things Retaliation has that its forebear didn't.  First and most importantly, there's Adrianne Palicki.  Second, there's Dwayne Johnson. 

We've previously seen a bunch of images from the upcoming sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation, and they consisted pretty much exclusively of characters wielding guns and swords.  There's more of that today, as eight new images from Hasbro and Paramount's sequel/sorta rebootish have arrived online, showing Roadblock, Jinx, and Snake Eyes all getting their guns and swords on.  That's not all, though, there are also comparatively relaxed stills in which castmembers are not sporting lethal weapons.

The big summer action movie is a notable export of these United States, and it's no surprise, since explosions and cool sword fights are like a universal language.  Dwayne Johnson may speak English, but his emphatic delivery and swaggering charisma are also universally appealing, so both are amply on display in two new international spots for G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  Both commercials fit templates established by previous Retaliation marketing, but you'll find some new footage, too.

A new still from this summer's sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation highlights one of the few castmembers returning from 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra: Byung-hun Lee, who plays the action figure-turned action movie bad guy Storm Shadow.  Storm Shadow is the villainous nemesis of good guy ninja Snake Eyes, once again played by Ray Park, another returned G.I. Joe thespian.

A new official image from this summer's Hasbro-produced sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation supports the theory that every single still released to promote the film must include at least one of the following: 1) a star of the film, and 2) a weapon of some sort, preferably a gun.  Last week, we saw a total of four new images, in which Ray Park, Dwayne Johnson, Elodie Yung, and Adrianne Palicki all wielded weapons of various sizes.  This latest image triples down, with another angle on Palicki aiming a massive rifle and Bruce Willis sporting a classy suit, tie, and handgun combination.

Yesterday, a still from the upcoming sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation showed returning G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra character Snake Eyes casually pointing a handgun.  At the time, I bemoaned that the picture didn't showcase Dwayne Johnson's ridiculous musculature or Adrianne Palicki's general greatness.  Well today, two of three new images from G.I. Joe: Retaliation contain both of those things.  Huzzah.