Henry Golding is ready for action in these exclusive Snake Eyes images - houghfroopped81

H Golding is quick for action in these exclusive Snake Eyes images

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The modern Snake Eyes trailer achieved the impossible: making a G.I. Joe movie seem like an exciting prospect again. It helps that information technology's fronted by the toyline/comic's coolest character, and that he's played by rising star Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians).

An origin tarradiddle that reboots the series, Snake Eyes delves into the cloaked ninja's past, particularly his friendship turned rivalry with Storm Shadow (Andrew Koji). From cage in hero to Arashikage clan member, Craps testament also thwartwise paths with the worlds of Cobra and G.I. Joe along his road to becoming the character we know.

In their new issue, our sister publication Total Film magazine has a report from the set of Ophidian Eyes in Japan, featuring interviews with the throw up and producer Lorenzo di Bonaventura. Check out a few exclusive news images via Full Film below, featuring Golding, Koji and Haruka Abe (World Health Organization plays Akiko), plus a behind the scenes search at Golding preparing for action with director Henry M. Robert Schwentke:

"He's the most painting role of the whole mythology," says di Bonaventura of Snake Eyes. "This whole movie is about these two young manpower [Craps and Storm Shadow] trying to find their position in life; start as friends and ending every bit rivals. This is before Snake has connected the Joes so we'atomic number 75 seeing him join the clan, but we're also seeing him without his mask, and hearing him talk, as a echt character. Henry Golding stood out for us because he can do the physical stuff just he also has such personal appeal."

"For this film, we're celebrating the Japanese culture in a sense that really imbues it with a sense of ageless beauty," adds Golding. "But we're putting Continent heroes at the forefront."

Snake Eyes opens in the United States of America on July 23, before opening in the UK on August 18. For much more from the set of the film, mark off out the latest progeny of Total Flic – featuring Dwayne Johnson's Jungle Cruise – when it hits stores and digital outlets this Friday, June 25.

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