Snake Eyes star Andrew Koji knew the G.I. Joe reboot was going to fail, says audiences don’t wish to see the identical outdated factor again and again.
Paramount tried to revamp the G.I. Joe franchise with Snake Eyes, however the movie turned a box-office bomb which acquired principally unfavorable opinions, and it’s one thing Andrew Koji noticed coming from the start.
Andrew Koji performed Storm Shadow in Snake Eyes, and whereas talking with Inverse (earlier than the SAG-AFTRA strike started), the actor stated that he knew the G.I. Joe reboot wasn’t going to be a hit. “Hollywood is simply obsessive about telling the identical outdated factor over and once more,” Koji stated. “Firstly, remakes. Secondly, it’s received to be primarily based on IP. Third, it’s so absurd as a result of I’m similar to, maintain on. Individuals need originality. The place is it? What’s going on right here? Snake Eyes didn’t do too properly, which I knew it wasn’t going to. I believe they’re in all probability going to reboot from the bottom up. I’m cool. I did like Storm Shadow Tommy. I discovered a strategy to love him and I believe there would’ve been one thing to do … there would’ve been a very cool Storm Shadow movie in the event that they did it proper.“
Constructing a movie round Snake Eyes, who’s arguably the preferred G.I. Joe character, appeared like a positive factor, however the film simply didn’t join with followers, who took intention on the sub-par motion scenes. “The primary main motion sequence includes Snake Eyes in a no-holds-barred cage match,” our personal JimmyO wrote in his assessment. “The scene is muddy and messy, and the shaky digital camera work is a bit irritating to look at. Maybe it was merely that the director needed you to really feel what it was prefer to be within the ring. Nope. It’s all like that. The motion sequences are all a collection of close-ups, with the digital camera consistently transferring and shaking as you attempt to get a glimpse of what’s going on.”
As Snake Eyes proved to be a failure, plainly Andrew Koji was appropriate, however Paramount’s newest try at bringing the franchise to the large display screen might show extra profitable. Andrew Koji was just lately seen in Warrior as Ah Sahm, a martial arts prodigy who emigrates from China to San Francisco underneath mysterious circumstances and turns into a hatchet man for considered one of Chinatown’s strongest crime households. The third season of the motion collection debuted on Max two months in the past.