Nicholas Cage is still one of the greatest starts in Hollywood and in his film career he’s taken on many roles. In his latest movie directed by the Pang Brothers, for example, he plays a hitman.
Actually, this action, drama and thriller movie is a remake of Dangerous Bangkok, a film the Pang Brothers directed in 1999. However, the 2008 version has some significant differences. In the original, for example, the main hero was deaf-mute, but now it is his girlfriend, Charlie Yeung, who learned sign language for the role.
Wikipedia reports why Oxide Pang Chun decided to “make” a girlfriend deaf-mute instead of Cage.
“We’d like to keep him the same, but we understand that from a marketing point of view Nic needs to have some lines,” Oxide was quoted as saying in the International Herald Tribune. “So what we’re going to do is transform his girlfriend instead into a deaf-mute. This switch will maintain the drama of communication between the two main characters.”
As SizzlingPopcorn reports everything starts when Cage travels Thailand to complete 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.
The movie will be released on 22th August.
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