July 18, 2004

More Details on Born To Fight!

btf2.jpgSomeone just threw a couple of interviews with Ong Bak fight choreographer Panna Rittikrai online and, man, this guy's flat out insane ... the stuff he'll do for the camera makes you think he's got a death wish on a serious scale. He once drove his motorcycle at high speed head on into a transport truck. Getting the picture? All natural stunts - no wires, no rigs and absolutely no CGI. Madness. Anyway, the interviews are here - you'll need to scroll down through the thread to find them - and include some spoilers on the stunt work and a brief synopsis. Rather than focus on martial arts and fighters for Born to Fight Rittikrai has opted to use high profile Thai national athletes and built extensive stunt sequences around their athletic abilities. Included are a football player (I assume that would be football as in soccer), a gymnast, a takraw star, a taekwondo champion, a member of the national rugby team, a muay thai champion and a 70+ year old martial arts master. The star athletes are cast, apporopriately enough, as a group of star athletes doing a benefit show for a poor village who are thrown into a confrontation with gun wielding gangsters.

High art? Nope, but I'll bet it's going to be an awful lot of fun ...


Posted by John Campea at July 18, 2004 05:36 PM


Comments

Hah! Sounds great!

Posted by: Jon Silpayamanant at August 20, 2004 03:39 AM

This movie is the boom......i love the the guy(Dan Chupong)in there!!!!!!!!! he is SOOOOO HOT!!!

Posted by: kristy at April 13, 2005 06:02 PM

does anyone know the name of the athletes, or have info links about them? They're high profile, but I haven't been able to find their names.

Posted by: fan at April 30, 2005 06:06 PM