Trailer Tuesday: BANGKOK DANGEROUS
By Allison at April 29, 2008 | 11:23 am | Print
Looks like Nicolas Cage has been getting hair tips from Tom Hanks. In his upcoming movie, Bangkok Dangerous, his new scraggly ‘do is the very essence of the no-time-to-comb-I’m-a-hired-assassin look.
His latest job brings him to Thailand where the neighborhood pickpocket and the deaf-mute hottie help him grow a heart and quit his cold killing ways. But as you can guess, the baddies who hired him aren’t about to throw him a retirement party.
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Written and directed by the Pang brothers — known for their horror films (like The Eye, The Eye 2, um, The Eye 3) and the awful haunted house thriller The Messengers. Bangkok Dangerous is actually a remake of a film of the same name, which the Pang brothers directed in 1999. In that version, the assassin was the deaf-mute — very John Woo.
So, in the original, the whole hard-edged assassin lifestyle is shaped by the fact that the anti-hero can’t hear the gunshots around him or the people pleading for their lives. But for this new American version, the Pang brothers realized “that from a marketing purpose Nic needs to have some lines“… so complex character and logical motivation go out the window. Again. Darn.
Release Date: August 22, 2008
nanio, 2 years ago
If his head doesn’t catch on fire there’s not much point.