Most of us know Danny McBride, the actor. The gruff, confident everyman who shows up and wreaks havoc. But McBride is also a very, very talented and successful writer, and one of his next projects seems like it’s going to be a dream come true. Earlier this year, news broke that McBride (writer and creator of shows such as Eastbound and Down and The Righteous Gemstones) was working on a G.I. Joe movie. Yes, the Hasbro franchise that got its start as the boys’ version of Barbie, before rising to fame in the 1980s as a toy line, cartoon, and comic book. G.I. Joe has seen a few big-screen adaptations over the years, the most recent being an unsuccessful Snake Eyes spinoff and a tantalizing tease at the end of the latest Transformers. But, apparently, McBride is doing something different than that, and he’s very, very excited about it. Speaking on the Happy Sad Confused podcast, McBride talked about how the whole thing came to be. “G.I. Joe was my thing when I was a kid,” McBride said. “I liked that more than Star Wars, more than anything. Like I loved G.I. Joe. And I still have all the [toys].” Apparently, from that, McBride had the idea to do a spinoff based on an evil mercenary group from the Joe universe and actually pitched it to Paramount.