Separately, if you throw the names Tony Jaa and DolphLundgren into any picture, I’ll totally watch the crap out of it. Put them
together in the same movie, and it’s one I’ll shove my own family members out
of the way in order to get into the theater first. (And if you want to sweeten
the deal with Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman, and Peter Weller, that’s also
fine with me, it’s like all of my favorite things.)
That’s exactly the case with the upcoming Skin
Trade, which teams the two action heroes up for the first time.
Sometimes with these outside-of-the-mainstream actioners, it can take a while
to see them as they eventually drop on the DTV market without much fanfare.
Lucky for us, however, Skin Trade now has solid distribution
in place.
According to Indie Wire, Magnet Releasing, the genre arm of
Magnolia, has snatched up the rights to the Ekachai Uekrongtham-directed
actioner, which was written by Lundgren and Steven Elder.
Lundgren stars as Nick Cassidy, a detective who is hot on
the trail of a Serbian gangster, Viktor Dragovic (Perlman), and his human
trafficking network. When thugs murder Nick’s family, he follows the clues to
Southeast Asia where he joins forces with a Thai detective, Tony Vitakayui
(Jaa), and the duo dismantle the criminal syndicate while exacting a healthy
dose of revenge in the process. In the process, FBI Agent Nick Eddie Reed
(White) is sent to bring Cassidy home. Yes, please.
All I’m saying is that there better be a fight involving Jaa
and White, two of the baddest action stars on the planet. I don’t if they fight
each other or work together to take down an entire warehouse full of stock bad
guys, but this has to happen.
Skin Trade hits VOD everywhere on April
23, and gets a limited theatrical run starting May 8 (which just so happens to
be my birthday, happy birthday to me).
Check out this sneak peek.
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