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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 at 9:49 pm
Lionsgate has released the official trailer, teaser poster, synopsis, and first image for Bangkok Dangerous, an adrenaline-powered thriller starring Nicolas Cage as an anonymous assassin who takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings.
Directors Oxide Pang and Danny Pang (The Eye) paint an explosive picture of the Bangkok underworld, illuminated with neon and saturated in violence. Based on the Pang Brothers’ wildly popular Hong Kong action film of the same name Bangkok Dangerous is written by Jason Richman.
Bangkok Dangerous hits theater August 22, 2008.
Synopsis
The life of an anonymous assassin takes an unexpected turn when he travels to Thailand to complete a series of contract killings. Joe (Nicolas Cage), a remorseless hitman, is in Bangkok to execute four enemies of a ruthless crime boss named Surat. He hires Kong (Shahkrit Yamnarm), a street punk and pickpocket, to run errands for him with the intention of covering his tracks by killing him at the end of the assignment. Strangely, Joe, the ultimate lone wolf, instead finds himself mentoring the young man while simultaneously being drawn into a tentative romance with a local shop girl. As he falls further under the sway of Bangkok’s intoxicating beauty, Joe begins to question his isolated existence and let down his guard “¦just as Surat decides it’s time to clean house.
Directors Oxide Pang and Danny Pang (The Eye) paint an explosive picture of the Bangkok underworld, illuminated with neon and saturated in violence. Based on the Pang Brothers’ wildly popular Hong Kong action film of the same name BANGKOK DANGEROUS is written by Jason Richman. The adrenaline-powered thriller stars Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas, National Treasure), Charlie Young (Seven Swords), Shahkrit Yamnarm (Belly of the Beast) and Dom Hetrakul (Sniper 3). The film is produced by Jason Shuman, William Sherak, Nicolas Cage and Norm Golightly. Andrew Pfeffer, Derek Dauchy, Denis O’Sullivan and Ben Waisbren serve as the executive producers.
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So they remade their own film too?
Comment by Jerry — April 2, 2008 @ 10:58 pm
That’s one of the most disturbing movie posters I’ve ever seen. Ego much?
Comment by Slipstream — April 3, 2008 @ 1:40 am
what is with Cage’s hair? In the last few movies he has done it looks weird.
Comment by FusedFIlmBLog — April 3, 2008 @ 11:56 am