It's the movie that started it all for Tony Jaa and Thai action movies on the international scene.Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior, the U.S. version of Tony Jaa's original 2003 Muay Thai-stunt extravaganza, is coming to Blu-ray on February 2.
Twentieth Century Fox is distributing Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior. It appears this is the "international" version that Fox picked up from Luc Besson's Europa Corp., which had trimmed the Thai version slightly and put a French hip-hop score on it.
Extras on the Blu-ray include:
- Tony Jaa and stuntman performance at French screening
- The 8 Movements of Muay Thai
- French rap music video with Tony Jaa
- Making of the music video
- B-roll behind-the-scenes footage of the taxi stunts, legs-ablaze fight and arena fight
The Blu-ray of Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior will be released on the same day as the U.S. DVD and Blu-ray of the 2008 prequel, Ong-Bak 2: The Beginning, distributed by Magnolia. It's be a great day for Tony Jaa fans. And just three days before the Tony Jaa's 34th birthday on February 5, it's an awesome way to celebrate.
(Via High-Def Digest)
sweet
ReplyDeletebut only for US which sucks:/
also I wonder how many features they took out of the 2disc DvD version
oh yea by the way, why the hell does your site comment box needs verification every damn time:/
Best release of Ong-Bak that I recall was in Australia by Madman. I don't know if it's the Thai version or the UK version, which had yet another rescoring. Madman also did a good job with the release of Tom Yum Goong, providing an uncut version rather than The Protector cut.
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