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This summer’s Snake Eyes will surely be the make or break entry in the G.I. Joe franchise that Paramount have been trying to get off the ground for over a decade. The Rise of Cobra turned a minimal profit and was greeted tepidly by both critics and audiences, while sequel Retaliation roped in Dwayne Johnson and experienced the bump in box office takings that come with having the man known as Franchise Viagra in the lead role.
A third installment has languished in development hell ever since, but Henry Golding is stepping into the breach and looking to launch a money-spinning series of his own with Snake Eyes. The origin story for the fan favorite is coming to theaters in July, and at long last the first trailer has arrived to kick off the promotional blitz for a martial arts actioner that wrapped filming in February of last year before being delayed significantly as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic, which did at least allow the cast and crew to get some last minute reshoots in the can this past March.
Nobody’s expecting greatness from Snake Eyes, but it does at least look to provide a serviceable and entertaining heightened genre film, scaling back the military and sci-fi elements that characterized G.I. Joe in the past in the past to focus on good old fashioned hand to hand combat.
Golding is a charming and charismatic presence who looks to have put the hours in when it comes to his fight training, while Samara Weaving is a fast-rising star in her own right, with The Raid‘s Iko Uwais and Warrior‘s Andrew Koji providing Snake Eyes with its requisite dose of martial arts badassery, so the early signs are certainly promising.
It’s less than two months until the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Black Widow finally arrives fourteen months behind schedule, as the first of the all-conquering franchise’s blockbusters to score a hybrid release. Natasha Romanoff’s long-awaited solo debut comes to theaters and Disney Plus Premier Access on July 9th, and it’ll be curious to discover how well it performs at the box office.
The Incredible Hulk has remained the lowest-grossing entry in the series since it was released in the summer of 2008, but despite being made available to fans from the comfort of their own homes on day one, Black Widow should still easily sail past the big green guy’s $264 million haul, especially if it keeps up the MCU’s strong track record of success in China and encourages domestic audiences to head back to their local multiplex in great numbers given the brand’s popularity all over the world.
WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier may already be over, but Scarlett Johansson’s swansong finally kicks off the feature length Phase Four slate at long last, and we already know that Julia Louis-Dreyfus’ Contessa Valentina Allegra de la Fontaine shot scenes for the movie over a year ago, but it’s not been made clear whether she’s been cut after debuting on the small screen instead.
Black Widow isn’t promising to reinvent the MCU wheel, but it does look as though it’ll deliver a fitting farewell to one of the franchise’s longest-tenured and most popular supporting characters, while also setting up some big story points for the future, not least of all Florence Pugh’s Yelena Belova, who’s set to take up the mantle and has already been confirmed for a supporting role in Hawkeye,