By: Ryan 'The Rican with the Irish name' McLelland Source:IESB.net
Lots and lots of G.I. Joe casting the past few days with, for me, the best being Arnold "Darkman" Vosloo. The man just LOOKS evil.
And today??? IESB is reporting that the role has gone to...DAVID MURRAY!
Don't worry...if you said, "Who?" I said it as well. The dude has been in Batman Begins (a bit part, but still cool) and The Honeymooners. Not the Jackie Gleason one, the other one that we almost must forget ever happened.
And for those not in "the know" here's the 411 on the Cobra baddie from Wikipedia:
Born in Callander, Scotland, Destro’s full name is James McCullen Destro XXIV, and is Laird of Castle Destro in the Scottish Highlands. The Destro clan has designed and sold weapons for centuries, and Destro is the head of their current incarnation: M.A.R.S. (Military Armament Research Syndicate). He wears a mask forged from Beryllium Steel, a tradition dating back to the English Civil War, when an ancestor of his was caught selling weapons to both sides. Forced to wear a steel mask for his crimes (neither side wanted to execute the ancestor because they still wanted the weapons he sold), the Destro clan has since turned it into a symbol of pride, passing it down from father to son for over 20 generations.
Destro’s key characteristics are his sense of honor, a calm demeanor, and love for Cobra's second-in-command, the Baroness. As a businessman, Destro is cutthroat and unyielding. He uses his own troops, the Iron Grenadiers, and hires mercenaries to stir up conflict in dangerous regions, then sells weapons to those armies. Continuing a tradition started by the first masked Destro, he will even sell to both sides of the same war.
