There's so much content, it's incredible. I was aware of the action figures and the comics and the costumes. I never got the real proper intro to the universe of G.I. Haruka Abe: It's not something that I grew up with, I have to say.
#SNAKE EYES CAST MOVIE#
Since then, they have spawned comic books, multiple video games, a Saturday morning cartoon and other animated series, and a live-action movie franchise (in which Ray Park played Snake Eyes). When they were introduced by Hasbro in the '60s, G.I.
Joe canon, including Snake Eyes' brother in arms, Tommy Arashikage who will become his archenemy, Storm Shadow (played by Andrew Koji) Joe Agent Scarlett ( Samara Weaving) and infamous Cobra villainess The Baroness (Úrsula Corberó).ĮT spoke with the Snake Eyes cast - including Haruka Abe, who plays an original character, Akiko - about becoming action stars, why Golding is the right guy to play everyone's favorite Joe and what comes after this Origin Story. As they say, knowing is half the battle.Īlong for the ride is a number of characters plucked from G.I. As played by Henry Golding, Snake Eyes, as he nicknames himself, is a loner out for revenge on the people who killed his father who is eventually taken in by a clan called the Arashikage and taught the ways of the ninja. Joe's original members, revealing the man underneath the mask. The film finally declassifies the backstory of one of G.I. And while every "real American hero" has an origin story of his or her own, the first to make it to the big screen is that of the masked commando Snake Eyes, in a movie titled - what else? - Snake Eyes: A G.I. One does not simply wake up and decide to go get 'em, Joe.