Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins, a spinoff and the third installment of the G.I. Joe movie franchise, is the first action superhero film featuring an Asian in the title character. Henry Golding, star of Crazy Rich Asians, plays the lead. Co-starring is Spanish model and actress Úrsula Corberó, who rose to prominence with the internationally popular Netflix Spanish series La Casa de Papel, or The Heist in English.
Golding plays the mysterious lone fighter known as Snake Eyes, who joins the ancient Japanese ninja clan Arashikage. However, his loyalties are tested when secrets from his past are revealed and he takes on a new path leading him to become a G.I. Joe hero.
Corberó’s role is Anastasia Cisarovna, a villainess known as the Baroness and associated with G.I. Joe’s nemesis, Cobra.
Other cast members are Samara Weaving, Iko Uwais, Peter Mensah, Haruka Abe, Takehiro Hira, Steven Allerick and Simon Chin.
Directing the Paramount Pictures film is Robert Schwentke, who helmed the Golden Globe-nominated action crime film Red. The screenplay and story are by Evan Spiliotopoulos, who wrote Beauty and the Beast and The Huntsman: Winter’s War.
Snake Eyes opens nationwide July 23.
Featured Photo: Henry Golding plays Snake Eyes in ‘Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins’ (Credit: Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Skydance)