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Can Henry Golding’s ‘Snake Eyes’ Turn ‘G.I. Joe’ Into A Franchise On The Third Try?
Paramount dropped the first trailer (and concurrent featurette) for Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins last night during the MTV Movie Awards. The Skydance flick, now opening theatrically in conventional, PLF, Dolby and IMAX formats on July 23, stars Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians, A Simple Favor, Last Christmas) in a “before he was the guy you knew” origin story that will allow the famously mute and masked ninja warrior to be speak and be seen. You don’t cast a ridiculously good-looking guy like Golding and hide him behind a mask. However, this does feel like another doomed “the prequel to the movie you came to see” origin story/franchise set-up flick. Do general audiences really care about learning how Snake Eyes became Snake Eyes, or do they just want to see Snake Eyes being Snake Eyes?
There’s a difference between origin stories like Star Trek, which gives you the origin but plenty of time spent with the marquee characters fully formed and doing the things for which they are famous. Batman Begins had Bruce Wayne put on the bat suit at the 65 minute mark and offered a full-on Batman adventure in the back half of its 140-minute running time. Likewise, Daniel Craig essentially “was” James Bond for most of Casino Royale. Conversely, the likes of Artemis Fowl, Jem and the Holograms and Fantastic Four (the 1994, 2005 and 2015 versions) spent the entire running time leading up to the point where the heroes we came to see were indeed the heroes we came to see. “Okay, movie’s over, but next time we’ll have the Mortal Kombat tournament in our Mortal Kombat movie!”
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