Henry Golding has left an Instagram note to his fans regarding the 1st Trailer for Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins. As we reported, Mr. Golding stated that he was set to reveal the trailer on April 2nd at Cinemacon 2020, prior to its cancellation.

“[On April 2nd] we were going to be in Las Vegas to reveal the first look at #SnakeEyes… It was going to be extraordinary. Looks like we will have to keep it under wraps for the time being, but hopefully for not too long.”

Based on his statement, the trailer could be hitting the internet in a very short period of time. As we stated earlier on our previous movie news post, the trailer should arrive somewhere before the end of April.

Keep your fingers crossed and stay tuned to HISSTANK for more information.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Paramount Pictures has reshuffled their release schedule for major tent pole movies, but Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins remains unchanged for its October 23rd release date [for the moment].

A Quiet Place: Part II has been moved to September 7th with Top Gun: Maverick receiving a December 23rd release date as opposed to the original June 24th. The Spongebob Movie: Sponge On The Run shifts to July 31st with the G.I. Joe lookalike; The Tomorrow War (who previously occupied the slot taken by Top Gun: Maverick) obtaining an unspecified release date.

April 2nd came and went and it would have been the day we set our eyes on the poster for Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins at CinemaCon 2020. If the show took place as was originally planned, it would also be the day we hear about the contents of the first trailer for the movie. Henry Golding was to be in attendance, but alas, all fell apart due to the ongoing global crisis.

Nevertheless, we just received an info on the Chinese title of the movie. Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins will be called Special Forces: Battle Of Snake Eyes in China and in Chinese speaking territories.

While we are yet to hear more info regarding the release date of the first trailer, it is likely that we’ll get to see it somewhere in late-April or early-May as it is customary to showcase such a trailer 6 month prior to the release of the movie.

Licensing Expo, which was also planned for May, is also postponed. This event is another avenue which showcases movie posters. Trailers are usually screened behind closed doors.

Amidst all the bleak news, allow us to bring a good one.

We have received a word that Soapbox Films will handle a portion of the post production for the upcoming Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins movie. Soapbox Films is most notable for producing VFX, Trailers & Featurettes as post production activities and we believe that it will be the same for the new Joe movie as well.

The company also handled such tasks for Avengers: Endgame, Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse, Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker as well as upcoming movies such as Free Guy and Disney’s Mulan.

You can check out their official website for more info and check out the montage below to get an idea on what they do.

It has been a while since we last heard from the movie front of the G.I. Joe franchise. What better way to break the silence than an interview? (yes, well, a trailer perhaps.) This time, it’s not our usual suspect; Henry Golding, but rather his opponent Andrew Koji, who plays the role of Storm Shadow.

Talking to Hersey Japan, Mr. Koji mentioned that the climax of the movie, the final big fight, will take place at Warp Station Edo in Ibaraki. The location is immensely popular due to its usage on many movies and TV shows (see pictures attached).

Speaking about his role, he mentioned that he disliked the way Storm Shadow was portrayed on G.I. Joe: Rise Of Cobra and G.I. Joe: Retaliation, but respects Byung Hun Lee, who precedes him. The creative team of Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins fought hard to keep the cultural aspect as faithful as possible.

“We kind of fought for the authenticity in the Japanese side of it. Hollywood’s got a tendency to just paint any Asian culture with broad-strokes, [like] Chinese Kung-Fu is the same as the Japanese thing. In this one, there was a lot of talks and hopefully helped out to kind of make it as authentic than you’ve seen so far in terms of the Japanese representation of the culture, in terms of [its] people, and in terms of performance as well.

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This person (Storm Shadow) is a human being. I wanna be able to see a fully formed character. [What] I tried to fight for as much as I can in this film, is for any young Asian boy growing up, who wants to become an actor, to see themselves on the screen when they watch and they can go ‘I wanna do something like that and we can be real people on screen’. Even though its a Ninja,  at least there’s a human behind that warrior character.”

Andrew Koji mentioned that the current COVID-19 Pandemic did not affect the production of the movie since they wrapped up prior to the escalation of the situation, but reshoots may happen in another month or two, but is unsure whether they’ll take place in Japan or Vancouver.

You can checkout the full interview at Hersey Shiga Diaries podcast.

Entertainment One’s subsidiary eOne Music is in talks to produce music for Hasbro based properties as a part of their new venture.

Speaking to the Billboard magazine, eOne Music’s Global President Chris Taylor stated that a group of eOne executives met with Hasbro management and presented a portfolio of music assets, from music supervision and soundtrack production to synch licensing and a production music library.

“It’s our job to familiarize ourselves with Hasbro’s brands, starting with Dungeons & Dragons to Magic: The Gathering to Transformers to Monopoly — what a job!”

Billboard asked “At this point, has eOne been tapped for any of Hasbro’s movie franchises, like Transformers or G.I. Joe?” and Mr. Taylor answered “We’re in discussions across the board with respect to music needs.”, but confirmed that the company is already working on song and composer ideas for the feature-length CGI-animated My Little Pony movie (2021) and has spoken to Wizards of the Coast Dungeons & Dragons team about their music needs for trailers and commercials, in addition to assisting Hasbro’s own commercial department (Cakemix Studio) to produce music for 150 commercials they put out each year.