Jonathan Pryce has recently signed on to portray the President of the United States in Stephen Sommer's G.I. Joe. According to Latino Review, the President has a small but integral part in the Paramount Pictures action-adventure adaptation.

Pryce will join a cast that features Dennis Quaid, Channing Tatum, Sienna Miller, Ray Park, Rachel Nichols, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Said Taghmaoui, Marlon Wayans, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Arnold Vosloo and Christopher Eccleston.

Paramount Pictures has scheduled to release G.I. Joe in theaters on August 7th, 2009.