A Live-Action G.I. JOE Series Focusing on Lady Jaye Is Being Developed for Amazon
Amazon is producing a live-action G.I. Joe series that will focus on the classic character Lady Jaye. This is fantastic, unexpected news!
It’s explained that the series will be a standalone story centered around Jaye, and it will also connect to the larger G.I. Joe universe. I imagine that means it will connect to the movies being made and possibly more G.I. Joe TV shows.
There’s a great opportunity here to play with these characters and really dive into their stories. Telling these stories in the form of a series is a smart move. I’m sure that they are reserving some of the bigger characters for other feature films that will be produced. It seems like maybe they are taking the road that Marvel has paved by producing a mix of G.I. Joe films and TV shows.
Adrianne Palicki played a live-action version of Lady Jaye in the 2013 feature film G.I. Joe: Retaliation. I imagine she won’t be involved with this series, though. Here are some details on the character:
Lady Jaye is a gifted linguist as well as an accomplished actress and mimic. She has participated in or led many undercover missions for the Joe Team. She is a believer in the saying that "less is more." That is why when she puts on a disguise, she eschews complicated makeup and rubber masks. Instead, she becomes the object of her disguise, right down to movement and mannerisms, even right down to the dialect and accent. It also helps that her genes help her pass for a number of European and Middle Eastern natives.
Lady Jaye was educated at Bryn Mawr and Trinity College, Dublin. Aside from Airborne and Ranger training, she is skilled in cryptological linguistics, signals intelligence, and electronic interception analysis. She is equally adept at infantry field work and quite enjoys the grunt duty.
Erik Oleson (Daredevil, Carnival Row, The Man in the High Castle) is the showrunner of the series, and he will executive produce alongside Lorenzo DiBonaventura.
Source: Deadline