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.

We've been seeing no small amount of images from G.I. Joe: Retaliation as of late, including three official stills just yesterday.  Paramount is opening up the promotional floodgates for its sequel to 2009's G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, and since the film has a big ensemble of characters bearing the names of Hasbro action figures, today there's a new crop of character posters for eight of those action-figures-turned-action-heroes/villains.

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.

Paramount Pictures has revealed a brand new official image from the upcoming sequel G.I. Joe: Retaliation.  It doesn't feature Dwayne Johnson flexing, Bruce Willis smirking, or even Adrianne Palicki being amazing.  Instead, it has the perpetually masked Snake Eyes striking a pose.  Though the character never speaks, his body language has him channeling his inner Harry Callahan, and you can almost here him saying, "You've got to ask yourself one question, 'Do I feel lucky?'  Well, do you, punk?"