New Poster, Trailer for Bangkok Dangerous Remake
By Nix | March 27, 2008 (11:31 pm) | More: Bangkok Dangerous (Remake, 2008) Movie, Movie Trailers
Apparently people still flock to the theaters to see a movie just because Nicolas Cage is in it. Or at least that seems to be the premise behind his new poster design for the Pang Brothers’ “Bangkok Dangerous”, which is a Hollywood remake of their own 1999 film of the same name. (Yup, they remade their own movie. Bitch about that, Asian film purists!) Here’s a new poster for said remake, featuring a very prominent look at Cage’s face, just in case, you know, you don’t know what he looks like, or something. Plus, a Spanish trailer that surfaced a while back. The tagline for the film: “One man. One bullet. One shot.”
A cold-blooded hit man heads to Bangkok to pull off four jobs, and winds up falling in love with a local girl and bonding with his errand boy.
Starring Nicolas Cage, Steve Baldocchi, Chris Heebink, James Wearing Smith, Charlie Young, and directed by Oxide Pang and Danny Pang.
Poster via:
The trailer is in Spanish, but from what I can gather, they’ve changed the storyline up a bit. The original had the hitman as a deaf-mute who lived a solitary, bare-bones existence. Cage’s hitman in the remake seems to be a globe-trotting assassin, and I can’t figure out if he’s also deaf or mute or neither.
Update
Replaced the Spanish trailer with an English, domestic version:
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But 99.9% of the world's population think that saiyan look asian 
Remember dark knight returns? Could be worked in rather seamlessly here with joker, two-face, and superman chasing the fugitive ...
Ooops, yur right, it is chicago. I stand corrected 
Yes its tru, todd will spoil it for all the fans, i think he needs to sit down and think ...
I haven’t seen the original but…It looks..really cool?… Could this movie be so cool it could restore Cage to his fromer glory? Could Cage be so bad ass in it he could actually make the Da Vinci code hair work? Inquiring minds wanna know!
I like his wig, looks pretty cool.
It looks somewhat generic. (Hitman is betrayed by client; the hunter becomes the hunted, etc.) The original was very, well, original. Deaf-mute hitman is pretty much used by everyone, then he falls in love. Great stuff.
I am very excited to see this movie, the poster is pretty awesome I think. Very strong
Cage needs a hit!
The original was okay tho nothing special I don’t think, but considering the same people are doing the remake why bother changing the storyline?
I agree the poster is very strong. I actually made it my background. Cage has such interesting features..But having just watched the trailer again..The hair!! Why does he have to have hair like that oh why oh why…Just give him his face/off doo so he can look cool again.
What a sell out. I just watched the original, which, although isn’t stellar, hinges on the fact that the main character Joe/Kong is deaf and mute. He isn’t a globe-trotting, wisecracking, slick assassin. He lives in a gritty world populated with thugs, boxers and exotic dancers. I’m disappointed.