HOLLYWOOD, Calif., March 18 /PRNewswire/ — On March 13,
prominent Korean film and television actor Byung Hun Lee, one of Asia’s
top stars, completed his first day of principal photography as Storm
Shadow in Paramount Pictures’ action adventure “G.I. JOE.” He joins the
ensemble cast that includes Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Christopher
Eccleston, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sienna Miller, Rachel Nichols, Ray Park, Said Taghmaoui, Channing Tatum, Marlon Wayans and Dennis Quaid.
As big in his native land as he is in other parts of Asia, including Japan, Lee started his acting career
in 1991 with the Korean television drama “Asphalt, My Hometown.” Since
then, he has appeared in several television dramas including “Tomorrow
Love,” “Police,” “Son of Wind,” “White Knight 3.98,” “Happy Together,”
“Beautiful Days” and “All In.”
Among his feature film credits are Kim Jee Woon’s “A Bittersweet
Life,” Park Chan Wook’s “Three Extremes,” “Everybody has Secrets,”
“Addiction,” “Bungee Jumping of their Own” and Park Chan Wook’s “Joint Security
Area.” This year he will star in two films, Kim Jee Woon’s “The Good,
the Bad, and the Weird” and Tran Anh Hung’s “I Come with the Rain.”
Storm Shadow, one of the most popular characters in the G.I. JOE
universe, has a dark and complex history. He was trained by the same
Ninja master as Snake Eyes, a member of the elite G.I. JOE team, but
now fights against him.
Dude. Ray Park vs. Byung Hun Lee. Snake Eyes vs. Storm Shadow, respectively. Dig it.
You
know, if Korean actor Byung Hun Lee (”A Bittersweet Life”) was ever
officially confirmed as playing Storm Shadow in Stephen Sommers’ “G.I.
Joe”, I must have missed it. The actor was rumored to be in the film, but now, Paramount Pictures has sent out a 
