Coming Attractions: Nicolas Cage takes a shot at 'Bangkok'
By Anthony Breznican, Elysa Gardner and Gary Strauss, USA TODAY Movies
Nicolas Cage calls Bangkok Dangerous "probably the weirdest movie I've ever made."
Coming from the guy who ate a ****roach in Vampire's Kiss and played twin versions of himself in the comedy Adaptation, that's saying something.
Cage laughs and says: "I realize that's not a small statement given what I've done in the past." The movie is a remake of a 1999 film about a hit man wrestling with the immorality and darkness he has invited into his life, directed by the original's filmmakers, Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang.
"My directors were twin Chinese brothers, if you can imagine that," Cage says. "I thought perhaps they could see something new in me. It was down and dirty in the sense that not a ton of money was thrown at it. We just get into the streets of Bangkok and make a movie." FIND MORE STORIES IN: Thailand | Bangkok | Dance | Nicolas Cage | Lazarus | Saved by the Bell | Showgirls | Harry Houdini | Elizabeth Berkley | Nick Cave
Cage says shooting on location was his main reason for doing the movie, and the mystery of Thailand motivates his character.
"I play a hit man on his last three hits in Bangkok and then he's going to retire," he says. "The city presents a new experience that opens his mind to the possibility of romance and maybe quitting that line of work."
