SNAKE EYES Star Takehiro Hira On The Original Villain He's Playing In The Upcoming Spinoff - EXCLUSIVE

SNAKE EYES Star Takehiro Hira On The Original Villain He's Playing In The Upcoming Spinoff - EXCLUSIVE

During our recent chat with Takehiro Hira, the Lost Girls and Love Hotels star shared new details about the mysterious original villain he'll be playing in the upcoming G.I. Joe spinoff, Snake Eyes!

By RohanPatel - Sep 29, 2020 01:09 PM EST
Filed Under: G.I. Joe

We've known that Takehiro Hira would be playing the villain in Paramount's upcoming G.I. Joe origins movie Snake Eyes for a while now, but not much has been revealed about his mysterious character, who is believed to be an original villain created exclusively for the movie. 

Speaking with Hira earlier this month while promoting his latest release Lost Girls and Love Hotels, the accomplished Japanese actor was generous enough to share details about his role in the Robert Schwentke-directed spinoff. 

"I’m playing the villain in Snake Eyes, the G.I. Joe film," he tells us. "I think it’s an original character who's not in the comics, so he’s brand new and that’s pretty much all I can say right now. *laughs*

He’s Japanese, he could maybe be Yakuza too, *laughs*, but yeah, it was a fun experience. You know, there's Snake Eyes (Henry Golding), and then there’s another guy Storm Shadow (Andrew Koji)... I’m sort of his half-brother or something like that."

His comments may essentially confirm an earlier report from That Hashtag Show, who revealed that the film would indeed introduce an original villain, then named Kenta.

They said in 2018, "Kenta is revealed to Storm Shadow’s brother who has long since left his family, the Arashikage, and joined with a rival ninja clan, the Kurayami. It is Kenta who attempts to lure Snake Eyes away from the Arashikage and into a terrorist plot being devised by Cobra.

While Hira wasn't allowed to divulge much else, he did speak about the extensive training he and the entire cast received to prepare for the tough shoot. "We trained for about a month and a half in Vancouver, so hopefully it’ll be good."

He isn't a formally trained fighter, but admits to having picked up a few skills throughout his nearly twenty-year career that he's more than ready to show off in the upcoming 2021 spinoff. "I haven’t been trained properly I guessbut along the way, I’ve learned things here and there and picked up a few tricks. I know some sword fighting, Japanese sword fighting, which is really cool."

Henry Golding (The Gentlemen) will headline the feature with a supporting cast consisting of Andrew Koji (Fast & Furious 6) as Storm Shadow, Samara Weaving (Ready or Not) as Scarlett, Úrsula Corberó (The Secret Life of Pets) as Baroness, Haruka Abe (47 Ronin) in an undisclosed role, Iko Uwais (The Raid) as Hard Master and Takehiro Hira (Giri/Haji) in an undisclosed role.

Snake Eyes hits theaters October 22, 2021

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TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/29/2020, 1:03 PM
Just call it Snake Eyes cool name, don’t ever mention gi joe, fill it with martial arts, and I am THERE, opening Netflix night, phone in hand!
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/30/2020, 12:01 AM
@TheWalkingCuban - that’s good idea watching movies tc shows on phone in smallest screen ever is he pointing at her or flipping her off I can’t tell screen is to small
TheWalkingCuban
TheWalkingCuban - 9/30/2020, 5:51 AM
@dragon316 - I can live with that, why are you pointing at me
GhostDog
GhostDog - 9/29/2020, 1:31 PM
He’s definitely yakuza then lol. This movie is gonna be rough
Repian
Repian - 9/29/2020, 1:37 PM
I want to see a Live Action Show of G.I. Joe. Maybe on Prime Video with Joel Kinnaman playing Duke.


AnthonyVonGeek
AnthonyVonGeek - 9/29/2020, 1:40 PM
All I wanna know is will there be Cobra-Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala...
LiteraryJoe
LiteraryJoe - 9/29/2020, 1:42 PM
@RohanPatel - Keep 'em coming, you're killing it out here!
TheJester187
TheJester187 - 9/29/2020, 4:19 PM
Hollywood is so lame and uncreative! A new villain not in the comics? Like really?
dragon316
dragon316 - 9/30/2020, 12:10 AM
@TheJester187 - Hollywood did make some new villains for other comic hero’s they became popular
JizzerTron
JizzerTron - 9/30/2020, 5:33 AM
@TheJester187 - Couldn't agree more. Why is this necessary? GI Joe lore doesnt have enough villians? Really?
TheJester187
TheJester187 - 10/9/2020, 11:17 AM
@dragon316 - yes but he lore of most of the classic ip’s haven’t even been discovered. Like they have no respect for the original stuff I would love a Destro movie or Nemesis Enforcer villain story in the movie and lead up to Cobra Commander cause he was always behind the scenes. I just think they can do better lol
TheJester187
TheJester187 - 10/9/2020, 11:18 AM
@JizzerTron - Yeah it’s pretty sad! Like I said above I would love a GI joe film with Destro in full costume [frick]in up the Joes! Lmao
JizzerTron
JizzerTron - 10/9/2020, 4:20 PM
@TheJester187 - like the transformers films that erroneously felt the need to reinvent characters. These characters are iconic and there’s plenty of them. It’s gilding the lily and it’s a shame.
TheJester187
TheJester187 - 10/10/2020, 5:17 PM
@JizzerTron - lol Transformers fell off after I think the second one I saw all the others I didn’t even bother and I see why thanks. But yeah Hollywood messed up originality!
inkniron
inkniron - 9/29/2020, 5:21 PM
Sorry, this sounds nothing like GI JOE, at least not the one I grew up with. I'll save the complaints, but lets just say I'm firmly in the category of not the least bit interested.
bkmeijer2
bkmeijer2 - 9/30/2020, 3:39 AM
I'm strangely optimistic about this. The previous G.I. Joe movies showed the whole IP is maybe to weird for live-action, but I think this can work really well
parkerray
parkerray - 9/30/2020, 6:44 AM
@bkmeijer - it’s not the IP; it’s more that it’s rare to find talented writers/producers etc who deeply revere genre work and will treat something like GI Joe as more than just a job. Larry Hama gave Snake Eyes a crazy amount of depth, and it should be getting the absolute best, most proven writers available, but that’s not at all the case so far.
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