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You can finally take a gander at photos of "Darth Maul/The Toad" Ray Park in his full Snake-Eyes costume from the upcoming G.I. Joe film, and we grudgingly have to admit that he looks fairly badass. Even though his visor looks a bit like Geordi's from Star Trek: The Next Generation, we'd never tell him that to his face. If we did, he'd either gut us with his sword, pop a cap in our ass with his gun, or possibly do both. Check out another Snake-tastic picture after the jump.
These images give us hope that G.I. Joe won't be a complete mess, or at least it'll look pretty while continuing to strip-mine all our childhood memories. We haven't heard if Snake-Eyes will have his wolf Timber in the movie or not, although we don't really think they need to give him a slobbering animal to make him look more intimidating. It's also not clear if he'll talk or if we'll just see his face in the flick. (Thanks ProjectThanatos!)
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He does look badass.
But so did Darth Maul- and a lot of good that did us.
Weird. I saw the picture before the headline and was thinking Metal Gear Movie...
Weird. I saw the picture before the headline and was thinking Metal Gear Movie...
(BTW, I seem having troublle commenting, anyone lese got the same problems?)
Weird. I saw the picture before the headline and was thinking Metal Gear Movie...
(BTW, I seem having troublle commenting, anyone else got the same problems?)
Well, they used a voiceover actor instead of Park in Phantom Menace, so who knows what might come out of his mouth, if anything at all.
Do I get a cookie? :D
Supposedly, there's some malarky about Snake-Eyes taking a vow of silence in backstory/flashback/whatevah.
Save us, Larry Hama.
I'm an 80s kid and I approve this Snake Eyes.
omg. That bottom one has "We are a hedge, move along. Nope, no ninja's here" written all over it.
Looks neat, though.
"if he'll talk or if we'll just see his face in the flick"
Hopefully neither, unless it's a flashback to.. um.. Vietnam? It's set in the modern day, no? Sure you can have vets from Somalia, former Yugoslavia, or the Persian Gulf, but Vietnam was so crucial to the backstory of it all. Course so was the Cold War. We'll see how they deal with that.
It can only be a matter of time till we get the GI Joe/Transformers team-up movie
Meh....I dunno. Hopefully the foam rubber suit will move well. I'll have to see it in action.
Snake Eyes was always my favorite, but I want pictures of the Baroness and Scarlett -- not a dude in a unitard.
Weird casting choices overall. Destro and Hawk are much older, barroness, snake eyes and storm shadow are mid/late 30s and everyone else, including cobra commander, duke, and scarlett are mid/late 20s.
Just. Odd. Cause it's interesting that they're not all in their 20s. I wonder if the script is any good at all, if it's even done.
@ParJoe: Really, the only reason you'd hire Ray Park at all is to see him move around; if the foam rubber suit doesn't move well, they might as well have just cast me.
@aspiringexpatriate: Cobra Commander in his late 20s?
That is weird.
I'd much prefer a serious FYT suit.
@braak: It would help explain his chronic poor judgment, though.
One time when we were in junior high, my friend Dave flipped out when a bunch of Cobra soldiers (like a dozen) managed to take down Snake-Eyes. I think it was when he was stumbling around in the snow, around the same time he met Timber. Anyway, Dave starts yelling, "Nobody can beat Snake-Eyes! Nobody!" We had to calm him down.
And then about a year later, he gets on this trip about how if Axl Rose was really fuckin' trashed and hopped up on coke (keep in mind that we're still in junior high, in Fargo, North Dakota), he could take out anybody, even a black belt, because Axl would just be going fucking crazy and "Crazy beats karate. Crazy always beats karate."
Obviously, then we were like, "Well, what if Axl fought Snake-Eyes?" And we've been struggling with the question since. It's like the grandfather paradox in time travel.
Is it spandex, which show "real" muscles, or are the muscles molded into the suit. As for talking, wasn't it explained in the movies that he had his vocal cords damaged in some accident. IIRC, I remember him being hurt in some snowy woods. I would want him silent, but that requires a good actor to portray a character through just gestures.
@aspiringexpatriate: Age of actors is a minor issue (since some of the worst castings will be behind masks the whole time -- hopefully) in comparison to the potential horror that this is either a G.I. Joe/Action Man mash-up/buddy flick [movies.ign.com] or a 20-something slapstick version of Lethal Weapon in the military [www.slashfilm.com]
@Klappstuhl: I thought that also.
Regardless, I want that costume.
And I would note that the IGN link above suggests that we will get some craptastic talking/face reveal Snake Eyes origin story... although I'm sure there's been 30 rounds of rewrites since then.
snake Eyes can't talk! That's just... well, silly isn't the word but it's wrong. If SAG rules require that he has lines due to pay reasons (lots of weird rules those actor's guilds), it should be handled Silent Bob style: he says one all important line and that is all.
I wonder if he hisses like that crazy ninja in The Octagon.
@Gyrus: Yeah, like "Not today." Or "Run. Now." Or "Blended, no salt."
I very much doubt we'll hear SnakeEyes speak; you could make a one-minute reel of all the lines Ray Park has spoke in major action movies. Also, no Action Man buddie cop movies this go around.
I got the fear about many things in this flick, but this isn't one of them.
Thank you for not even pretending this is SF, but including it anyway, because it is pure awesome. And, you know, not to speak ill of the great Snake-Eyes (my long-time favorite as well of course)...but...
1) Are Ray Park's eyes just above the bridge of his nose or something?
2) Is Snake-Eyes threatening to shoot me in the head and then cut me? Cause if so, I'm not so worried about the cutting part.
I was so in love with Snake Eyes when I was younger. I'm netflixing G.I. Joe DVDs right now, and there's an overabundance of the annoying Shipwreck, but very little Snake Eyes. I pout.
That really captures the essence of Snake-Eyes. Great job! As to him talking, I hope he doesn't but I'm not going to have a faneurysm if he does talk.
Isn't that an FN FiveseveN pistol? If so, keen!
@ Tim Faulkner I hope the comment "Snake Eyes was always my favorite, but I want pictures of the Baroness and Scarlett -- not a dude in a unitard." was some kind of joke on your part. If not...screams of homophobia. Please refrain from that here - IO9's awesome because (among other reasons) it is gender inclusive. I'm sure there are plenty of readers who love seeing a buff guy in a unitard.
My mom wouldn't let me watch GI Joe when I was a kid... Too violent and no positive female role models. I shit you not. To this day I have never seen an episode of GI Joe beyond Sigma 6 or whatever that is thats on now.
So for any hippie parents out there wanting to keep their kids from watching TV and playing with guns, keep track of my posts to see how they'll turn out.
That being said.. this looks awesome. I hope my mommy lets me go see it.
@sensenet: I don't think it's homophobia to prefer pictures of the Baroness and Scarlett to pictures of a dude in a unitard, especially if the Baroness and Scarlett are kissing.
@moff: Also, naked.
What this movie seriously needs is a Sgt. Slaughter cameo.
@braak: [Taps own forehead, points at your forehead] We're on a wavelength, baby.
Effin awesome...
Now I want me some Baroness and Scarlet...
Also here is a "please dont suck" prayer...
@sensenet: I am guessing it was a bit of a joke. Although I also wouldn't see it as "screaming of homophobia", more screaming of heteronormative...ness.
Either way, it isn't even a buff guy in a unitard, it's a guy in a suit with molded muscles, which is just silly for oggling purposes.
On the GI JOE front though, looks bad ass.
@braak, @moff: I'd almost prefer semi-naked, trying to figure out how to peal off each other's form-fitting gear (the Baroness to Scarlett: Kiss, kiss, "How did you get this bathing suit over the latex jumper?"... Kiss, kiss...) -- but, yeah, I'm tuned into that signal.
James Earl Jones as the voice of Snake Eyes? Awesome.
This movies going to suck...a lot.
@sensenet: That smacks of excessive P.C. patrolling...
Snake-Eyes got his face burned off pulling an unconscious Scarlett out of one of the crashed choppers in Desert One, didn't he? Still makes him too old, though.
Any pics of Storm Shadow?
I didn't know they made serrated samurai swords.
Given the fact that Transformers surprised me (in a good way), I'm willing to give this a shot. I don't think "Yo, Joe!" will play very well. If it can laugh at some of the silly aspects, it may be good.
Im under the impression that Snake Eyes cant talk cause his face got pwned during the Vietnam war. Or is it one of those alternate "GI Joes vs Battlestar Galactica" comics?
"Snake Eyes was always my favorite, but I want pictures of the Baroness and Scarlett -- not a dude in a unitard."
Copy that Alpha Silo Alpha Phoenix! (ASAP!)
@Tim Faulkner:
At least it didn't have Clooney-Batman nipples on it. You have to show SOME gratitude here!
OMG OMG OMG
I know this movie is going to suck and still about shit myself when I saw that pic. Snake Eye, wow, just wow!
@Garrison Dean: When you're older.
@GenXCub: Why? And are you sure? He's got a molded cranium and triceps that would cut through spandex... These pics don't reveal his nips. Besides my admittedly prurient interest in seeing the ladies, there is legitimate reason to want to see them. It would be hard not to deliver on ninja/commando gear that every ex-boy will love. But the look of the ladies will say a lot about this film. Will Sienna Miller's Baronness look like a cheap Trinity or Selene rip-off? Will Scarlett be utterly camp, receive a major overhaul, or land somewhere in an unsatisfying middle? Alright, Destro, Zartan, and the Commander will be more revealing... I'm just a pervert.
@Rus McLaughlin: But MAAAAAAAA!!!!!