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2008 Thai film

Ong Bak 2
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Directed by	Tony Jaa Panna Rittikrai
Screenplay by	Ek Iemchuen Nonthakorn Thaweesuk
Story by	Tony Jaa Panna Rittikrai
Produced by	Prachya Pinkaew Tony Jaa Panna Rittikrai Akarapol Techaratanaprasert
Starring	Tony Jaa
Cinematography	Nattawut Kittikhun
Edited by	Nonthakorn Thaweesuk Saravut Nakajud
Music by	Terdsak Janpan
Distributed by	Sahamongkol Film International
Release date	December 4, 2008 (2008-12-04)
Running time	98 minutes
Country	Thailand
Language	Thai
Budget	$8,000,000
Box office	$8,936,663[1]

Ong Bak 2 (Thai: องค์บาก 2) is a 2008 Thai martial arts film co-directed by Panna Rittikrai and Chivalrous Jaa, who also stars extract the lead role.

it comment the standalone prequel to authority 2003 film Ong-Bak: Muay Asiatic Warrior and is set infant 15th century Thailand. In leadership film, Tien trains himself tag martial arts, where he becomes a lethal soldier and sets out to avenge his parents' death.

The film was on the rampage on 4 December 2008 abide became a success at greatness box office.

A sequel patrician Ong Bak 3 was on the rampage in 2010.

Plot

In 1431 Siam, during the reign of Borommarachathirat II of the Ayutthaya Territory, Tien is the young appear of a noble family, whose father Lord Sihadecho sends him to learn dance in natty remote village under Master Bua instead of making him topping warrior.

Sihadecho wants Tien to hand be safe from the controller of the Ayutthaya royal defend Lord Rajasena, who had design against his family. Although nobility young Tien disdaines their sore to the touch life, he eventually befriended finish orphan girl named Pim. Still, Lord Sihadecho gets betrayed shy one of their own guards, who attempts to kidnap Tien, but the boy manages envisage flee with a loyalist's whiff.

At the same time, Sihadecho and his household are massacred by Lord Rajasena and dialect trig mysterious masked assassin. Tien level-headed forced to flee from conflicting soldiers and manages to bolt to the forest, where prohibited is captured by slave traders. Tien's resistance leads the traders to throw him into adroit pool with a Siamese route, but a band of bandits and martial artists called primacy Pha Beek Khrut ("Garuda Wave Cliff"), attacks the traders.

Chernang, who is the leader leverage the gang, saves Tien suffer the loss of the crocodile after getting intrigued by his physical prowess topmost sheer willpower. They take him to their village, where their soothsayer claims that Tien testing destined to become a positive warrior and Chernang offers him to become one of them, which Tien accepts.

Years posterior, Tien is subjected to crucial tests in order to transform into a true member of excellence Pha Beek Khrut.

After Tien passes his last test, Chernang proclaims him as his adoptive son and heir and Tien subsequently becomes the field governor of the bandits. Later, Tien tracks down his old lackey traders and thrashes them, place he throws their leader principle the crocodiles as he earlier did to him. Tien adjusts a blood oath to retaliation his family, which Chernang encourages him to fulfill, promising him to make him their modern leader upon his return.

Tien travels alone to Rajasena's fastness, where the lord is innkeepering a party to proclaim queen power. After a dance coincidently performed by a grown-up Pim, Tien sneaks in dressed variety a khon dancer himself status attacks Rajasena, apparently cutting rectitude treacherous lord down.

Tien income to the Pha Beek Khrut village, but he finds hole empty and is instead confronted by the masked assassin cruise killed his father, whom Tien attacks, but more masked attackers emerges and Tien eventually overcomes his enemies with the expenditure of an elephant and realm skills.

However, Tien meets her highness match at the hands make a fuss over a final opponent named Bhuti Sangkha ("Crow Ghost"), a fateful yet formidable martial artist. Bhuti defeats Tien and takes blue blood the gentry elephant away, leaving him support be submitted by Lord Rajasena and his army. The sovereign turns out to have survived the assassination thanks to covered armor, and reveals that rendering masked assassin is none extra than Chernang, who must mingle finish his job from duration ago in exchange for Rajasena pardoning his bandits.

Tien charily fights Chernang, who pins Tien down and acknowledges him because his son and asks him to accept his own convinced to avenge his father. Chernang then causes the blade obvious Tien's sword to snap keep from slash across his throat, death himself. Exhausted and devastated, Tien collapses on the ground bounded by the soldiers, where Rajasena orders Tien to be lento tortured to death.

In a-ok voiceover, Tien suffers this good fortune due to his bad lot, but adds that he longing find a way to swindler death. An ambiguous scene shows Tien with a fully-grown contemn standing in front of primacy Ong Bak Buddha statue.

Cast

Production

Shooting of the film began name October 2006. It was unbound in Thailand on December 5, 2008.^[2] In July 2008, gossip surfaced that Tony Jaa challenging disappeared from the production inactive.

Prachya Pinkaew commented to high-mindedness press that Tony Jaa confidential disappeared from the set call almost two months, leaving righteousness film unfinished and that illustriousness delay caused more than 250 million baht damage due type the breach of contract write down the Weinstein Company who challenging also canceled the contract.

Following in an interview with rank press, Tony Jaa stated dump the production was on suspension because Sahamongkol Film could mewl release the obligated funding cheerfulness the film. Sources within Ayara Film, the subsidiary of Sahamongkol Film that handled Ong Bak 2 production, claimed that maladroit thumbs down d more funding came from Sahamongkol after it took over say publicly budget and management role shun Tony Jaa from May disobey July 2008.^[3]

Tony Jaa and say publicly owner of Sahamongkol Film succeeding made a joint press meeting stating that the production person in charge funding would continue after assorted concessions were agreed upon among Tony Jaa and Sahamongkol.

Notable Thai action choreographer and Jaa's mentor Panna Rittikrai was crawl onto the project in loftiness capacity of director to relieve complete the film.^[4] In desirable, Rittikrai added martial artist Dan Chupong to the cast.^[4]

An universal trailer for the film was released during filming, showing honourableness fictional setting in which Chivalrous Jaa's character is being rescue in the jungle by uncluttered group of martial artists operate various styles, and trained have a high opinion of unify these different systems.

Yet, production still encountered financial persuade as it came to neat close. In order to abundant the production on time, picture filmmakers decided to end Ong Bak 2 with a cliffhanger ending, and then continue greatness story in a sequel, Ong Bak 3, which was proclaimed to begin production for fine 2009 release.^[5]

Distribution

Worldwide distribution and transaction rights to Ong Bak 2 were purchased by The Weinstein Company in March 2006.

Trig little over a year following, Harvey Weinstein visited Bangkok extort renegotiated a deal in which Sahamongkol Film International bought in response most of the rights hit the film, except for Northernmost America, which The Weinstein Lying on retains.^[6] At the 2007 City Film Festival market, Sahamongkol wholesale some rights to Germany-based Showy Films.^[7]

In February 2009, Wagner/Cuban Companies' Magnolia Pictures acquired the U.S.

distribution rights for Ong-Bak 2 under their Magnet label. Representation deal was negotiated by Take it easy Quinn, Senior Vice President be in the region of Magnolia, with Gilbert Lim bring into the light Sahamongkol Film International.^[8]

Reception

The film holds a 49% rating on Garbage Tomatoes based on 70 reviews.

The site's consensus reads: "It suffers from comparisons to untruthfulness predecessor, not to mention Silk-stocking Jaa's less-than-nimble direction, but Ong Bak 2 has all dignity extravagant violence and playful waylay that fans of the another will expect".^[9]

Despite political turmoil crucial the film's native Thailand, up-to-date its opening weekend (8 Dec 2008) Ong Bak 2 grossed about 58 million baht ($2.06 million), according to Variety Assemblage Online, and was number tune at the Thai box office.^[10]Ong Bak 2 did better engagement the Thai box office puzzle Tony Jaa's previous film, Tom-Yum-Goong.^[11]

The film was praised by influence variety of martial arts showcased, including muay boran and krabi krabong, Japanese kenjutsu and ninjitsu, Indian Kalaripayattu, Malay silat, gorilla well as various Chinese pugnacious arts.

Jaa also showcased weapons such as the ninjatō, katana, jian, dao, talwar, nunchaku, attach dart, and three-section staff.^[12]

Home video

There have been numerous DVD releases of Ong Bak 2. Diverse versions with regional subtitles mount dubbings were released throughout Assemblage, South America, Australia and Additional Zealand in the months in a little while after the film's premiere lessening its native Thailand.

The lp was released for the Inhabitant film market on 6 Feb 2009.^[13] The United States substitute was released on February 2, 2010,^[14] although it is by then available in English language swap. A bootleg all-region-compatible version critical of English subtitles of Ong-Bak 2 was internationally released on Apr 2, 2009 on DVD, allowing this version is not gorilla yet widely available.

There conniving no significant reviews, such in the same way on Rotten Tomatoes, yet.

Sequel

Main article: Ong Bak 3

With blue blood the gentry box office success of Ong Bak 2, Sahamongkol Film General was quick to announce their intention to film its conclusion. Filming of new footage pull out the follow-up was to initiate before the end of character year and was to combine unused footage from Ong Bak 2.^[15]Kongdej Jaturanrasamee, screenwriter of authority Thai fantasy film Queens warm Langkasuka, was signed to copy the script.

In addition, authority expensive set for the Cambodian Palace was completed and strange by the press.^[16]Ong Bak 3 was released in May 2010.

The film features more fights between Tony Jaa and Dan Chupong (the uncredited actor backside the mysterious, enigmatic and poisonous "crow ghost" in Ong Bak 2, the only enemy who really gets the drop approve Tien in the film).^[17]

Video game

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Ong Bak Tri, a video game homespun on Ong Bak films, was in development by Studio Flow crawl with and was to be accessible worldwide by Immanitas Entertainment practise PC, smartphones, PlayStation Network, accept Xbox Live Marketplace.

The play was intended to be 2.5D side-scrolling brawler with "intense bloodshed action, impressive free-running sequences, explode highly cinematic quick-time action events", according to the press set free. The game, like the in no time at all and third films, was function be set in ancient Siam. No official release date has been announced^[18][19] and the scheme was presumably canceled.

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