G.I. Joe's Real-Life Connection Between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow - Gizmodo

Joe, the link between Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow is dense and complex.

Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians, Last Christmas), who plays Snake Eyes, and Andrew Koji (Warrior), who plays Tommy (aka Storm Shadow), didn’t meet until they were cast in Snake Eyes.

“We’re Surrey boys.” Golding explains that Koji went to the same college most of his friends went to, which was also right next to where he grew up.

“Two half Asian kids growing up in that area, to not have met and only to meet halfway across the world on this amazing sort of production was something really special,” Golding said.

Joe Snake Eyes you know from action figures, cartoons, and comics won’t be there yet, and neither will be the villainous Cobra agent Storm Shadow.

“A code of honor really implies that you have sacrificed yourself to a greater good ...

So once he finds that honor within himself, he becomes the Snake Eyes that we all know and love.

More so than even its tale of honor, betrayal, and action figures turned to life, that’s what Koji believes resonates with the film.

“All I wanted, really at the end of the day, was for the kids that watch this film and the fans [to be pleased],” Koji said.

It’s not surprising to say the film ends in a place where the stories of Snake Eyes, Storm Shadow, as well as G.I.

“I really want to see a bigger world,” Golding said.

“Snake Eyes on the shoulder of Optimus Prime is something that I grew up imagining with the comic books and all that jazz,” Golding said.