‘Snake Eyes’ Movie Casts ‘The Expanse’ Actor As Title Character’s Father
Hey, remember Snake Eyes? No, notthe Nicolas Cage movie. TheG.I. Joecharacter who never takes his mask off and rarely speaks? I’d totally forgotten about this, but Paramount is giving that characterhis own spin-off film, withCrazy RichAsiansandLast ChristmasstarHenry Goldingplaying the lead role. Well, today theSnake Eyesmovie cast recruited one more actor:Steven Allerick(The Expanse) has been hired to play Snake Eyes' father. Get hyped, people – we’re about to see Big Daddy Snake Eyes in the flesh!
Deadlinebrings word about the new addition to the cast. Personally, I’ve never heard of Steven Allerick, but the dude has been kicking around for years with bit parts in things likeStar Trek: Enterprise,Fear the Walking Dead,Jane the Virgin,S.W.A.T., andExtant. This role seems like the biggest opportunity yet for him to make an impression on a large scale, but there’s no word about how big of a part this will be. It seems likely that we’ll see this character in flashbacks because A) Allerick doesn’t seemthatmuch older than Golding (strangely, I couldn’t find his age anywhere online), so it might be weird to see them standing side by side as father and son, and B) in the previousG.I. Joemovies, Snake Eyes was abandoned as a 10-year-old, so it stands to reason that this film may fill in some of those gaps between his birth and that abandonment. Deadline also says that Snake Eyes' father was murdered, and Snake Eyes spends some of this movie hunting the man who killed him.
Not much is known about Snake Eyes' past, but in the previousG.I. Joefilms (which I’m assuming are still being considered canon for this spin-off’s purposes), he’s depicted as a street-savvy scavenger who gains favor with the Arashikage ninja clan and meets his sworn arch-enemy, a fellow ninja named Storm Shadow. Here’s their first meeting fromG.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, just to jog your memory:
Through a series of complicated reveals and intricately choreographed fights across two movies, the two face off several times but eventually come to an understanding and join together to defeat a common enemy. I still think it would be a mistake to cast someone as charismatic as Henry Golding to play a guy who hardly ever speaks, but what do I know?
The new film will be directed byRobert Schwentke(RED,Flightplan) and is set to co-starSamara Weavingas Scarlett,Ursula Corberoas The Baroness, Iko Uwais as the Hard Master, andAndrew Kojias Storm Shadow.Snake Eyeshits theaters onOctober 16, 2020.
