We embraced it immediately but also had questions about it, because I think the action audience can be very critical of people coming into it, especially people who’ve been established in a romantic comedy or lighter vein of movies," explains di Bonaventura. And from the looks of the trailers, he's leapt (and kicked and punched) at it. Given that we've mostly seen him as an affable, charming romantic lead (though he's shown range in films including Monsoon and Guy Ritchie's The Gentlemen), this represents a chance for Henry Golding to forge an entirely new path - action hero. And honestly, part of that came out of the fact that it was a struggle to shoot with Snake Eyes before, because he could never talk! By starting before he has problems talking and before he’s hidden, it just allows you into the character in a way that I don’t think you very often get." Regarding Henry It offers us a way into a character that no one had ever seen.
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This movie owes more to the samurai film tradition or the Hong Kong film tradition than it does to the way we’ve been constructing these action pictures. And it’s different from the Joe movies, it’s different from comic book movies. "Snake Eyes has been this great enigma, so getting underneath the mask presented an interesting challenge for us and also an opening that no one had any real preconceived biases towards. "I find, and the fans seem to find, both Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow to be the two most popular characters," says di Bonaventura. The new film promises to find out what makes him tick, from a tragic backstory to his finding new purpose with an ancient Japanese warrior clan known as the Arashikage, and his eventual contact with the armed force he'll end up joining.
Though parts of Snake Eyes' history have been prodded in the comics, he's still largely a man of mystery.