Tony Jaa’s Sword Has Been Canceled???
Asian Movie News — By Nix on November 18, 2007 |
So, you loved “Ong Bak” and “Tom Yum Goong”, and you’ve been waiting with bated breath to see Jaa team up with the director of those movies for a third outing? Well good luck with that, kids, because according to the guys over at TwitchFilm, Jaa and “Ong Bak” director Prachya Pinkaew’s highly anticipated re-teaming on “Sword” has gone the way of Britney Spears’ former sex appeal. Yes, that’s right, according to rumors, “Sword” has been canceled. Of course we hasten to add that these are just rumors, so if the film does end up coming out next year, don’t blame us. Or don’t blame us too much.
Here’s what Twitch said:
Jaa, who is currently directing Ong Bak 2 himself – a sequel in name only as it is set in and entirely different time period – had been slated to reunite with Ong Bak and Tom Yum Goong director Prachya Pinkaew once he was finished with Ong Bak 2 and Pinkaew finished up Chocolate to shoot a film based around daab thai fighting techniques – a dual sword fighting technique – but the two have had a serious falling out in recent days and in a recent interview with Thailand’s The Nation Pinkaew has confirmed that although the script for Sword has been completed the project has been cancelled. Which means that after his recently announced bit part in the third Naresuan film is shot Jaa’s slate is suddenly bare because nothing else is ready for him yet …
Hmm, that would certainly leave room for Jaa to do other endeavors, wouldn’t it? Something, say, a major role in “Awaken the Dragon”, the sorta remake of Bruce Lee’s “Enter the Dragon”, perhaps?
One can only hope.
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Good news…hurry up and become an International Action Actor? Stunts galore? Sho’nuff…
“Good news…hurry up and become an International Action Actor? Stunts galore? Sho’nuff”
Ehmmm… I’d rather see Tony stay as far away from Hollywood as possible. Hollywood has absolutely NO idea how to handle these asian martial artists properly. Just look at what Hollywood did to Jackie. Just look at what it did to Jet Li. Their Hollywood output has been laughably BAD, and nowhere near as good as their HK stuff.
You think Tony Jaa would be allowed to take 2-3 years to make a proper action movie, doing all his own stunts? Hell no. Hollywood would never allow such a thing. Before you know it, he’d be cast opposite Ben Stiller or some other ‘comedian’ in some lame buddy-cop movie…
I rather see him stay in control of his own projects. He’s a VERY talented guy, seems bright, and seems very AMBITIOUS when you look at how much of an improvement TYG already was over Ong-Bak, ACTION-wise.
Too bad though he allowed the Weinsteins to pick up the North-American rights to his next project. The Weinsteins have been EXTREMELY bad for asian cinema, cutting it up, only releasing piss-poor dubbed versions, or not even releasing movies at all.
Go try and find a subbed uncut DVD of Fist of Legend, for instance. You cant. Jet Li’s best ever movie hasnt even had a proper DVD release(!)
Nah, I wish Tony will keep making movies his own way, instead of becoming a puppet for some Hollywood studios where he’ll be dumped in pathetically bad projects.
I agree with you up there. Asian martial arts films need to retain their rawness, and I wouldn’t personally look forward to a Muay Boran meets Hollywood production, that’d be just weird to watch. Funny you should mention TYG being better than Ong-Bak, I prefered Ong-Bak because it generally made more sense and felt truer to Thailand’s filmmaking. TYG kind of felt Hollywoodised, and they randomly threw villains in just to show off/pit martial art against martial art. Not that it wasn’t fantastic to watch, but they could have introduced his opponents in better scenarios so it would feel more like a movie and less like martial art pornography. To each his own, I guess.
I agree, hollywood is a disease to good martial artists. They’ve destroyed so many that u never see any martial artist in movies.
Its reality shows and lame remakes. “The last dragon” being one that should of been kept in the vault. Hey screw it we might see chris brown play bruce leroy(ewwww).
But tony jaa should continue to make movies where he is now.