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Ray ParkBy Nisha Gopalan

What do you do when you're the fearsome, face-painted henchman to a Sith master, and despite displaying a staggering acumen in the kick-assery arts, you get fatally bisected by a freakin' light saber? If you're Ray Park (aka "Star Wars: Episode I" baddie Darth Maul) you continue to get your testosterone on with a small chain of modest roles.

Among them: the tongue-tastic Toad in "X-Men," a no-good Fed in "Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever," and more prominently, Snake Eyes in G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra and possibly the kung-fu dynamo Iron Fist if/whenever Marvel gets around to making that one.

And now you can add another role to that budding roster, one that will take him into the sword-and-sandles fantasy land of legendary special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen. This courtesy of cult writer/director Kevin Van Hook, who previously helmed Park in the TV movie "Slayer." Read more...