Paramount Pictures released a new short to promote the upcoming Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins.

The short is animated in stop-motion using action figures and deliberately parodies the PSAs that often came at end of episodes of the classic series G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero. In it, a group of kids chases after a ball, deliberately ignoring both the dangerous environments around them and the advice of G.I. Joe mainstays Gung-Ho, Roadblock and Lady Jaye. They do stop when they see Snake Eyes, who takes off his mask to reveal he's actually actor Henry Golding, here to promote the new movie.

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The Joes take offense to the fact that they aren't in the movie, but Golding explains, "Sometimes friends need time apart to explore what makes them mysterious ninja assassins. Friends understand giving each other space." He then beats up some Cobra goons who dare to decry his reboot ("It's an origin story!" he counters) before Scarlett, one of the Joes who does appear in Snake Eyes, reminds the audience that, just as it was in the '80s, knowing is half the battle.

Despite the Joes' worries, Golding previously said Snake Eyes will set the stage for further G.I. Joe movies. "After this movie, we find ourselves yearning and wanting more," he explained. "We want to see how this story unfolds. So all I can say is that I want to see this story to the end, and I don't think it will even end at that point, because there's just so much more that we can explore. And we got to think that this is such a macro view of an entire universe from the G.I. Joe."

Directed by Robert Schwentke, Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins stars Henry Golding as Snake Eyes, Andre Koji as Storm Shadow, Iko Uwais as Hard Master, Úrsula Corberó as Baroness, Samara Weaving as Scarlett, Haruka Abe as Akiko and Tahehiro Hira as Kenta. The film arrives in theaters July 23.

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