THE MOVIE: When a tough-as-nails New York cop finds his family murdered by a drug kingpin, he swears revenge and hops on a plane to pursue their killer to Bangkok. Once in the seedy Thai underworld, he teams up with a local detective to bust heads and right what has been wronged.
While this may sound like a familiar set-up for a buddy/cop movie, action buffs should be pleased to hear that this movie will unite Dolph Lundgren (The Expendables) as the NYC cop with Tony Jaa (Ong-Bak) as the Thai detective!
You may recall that Dolph and Tony made something of a deal: Dolph would star in a Thai movie with Tony – the currently filming A Man Will Rise – and then Tony would make the trip to America to shoot a movie with Dolph. Now we know that American film is Skin Trade.
UPDATE[IMG]: Twitch relays news from Dolph’s Instagram ACCOUNT[IMG] – Beautiful Boxer director Ekachai Uekrongtham will helm Skin Trade. The film is based on a screenplay written by Dolph Lundgren, with another draft from Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning filmmaker John Hyams. | Promotional poster. | Film Combat Syndicate has an interview with Tony Jaa, where he talks about Skin Trade, Tom Yum Goong 2, Fast and Furious 7 and much more! | Michael Jai White (Never Back Down) and Ron Pearlman (Drive) have joined the cast.
There are some circulating reports that Peter Weller (RoboCop) and possibly Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa (Mortal Kombat) have joined the cast. Also, CHECK[IMG] out a photo of Lundgren and Jaa, during a traditional blessing ceremony. | Film Combat Syndicate has a few set action-oriented set photos. | Action shots from the set, which hints that there will be a duel between Tony Jaa and Dolph Lundgren. | More shots from the movie, featuring Michael Jai White. | New teaser montage. | Official trailer is here!
BREAKING NEWS: According to DH (via Jox), Skintrade will get a limited theatrical release on May 8th through Magnolia Pictures
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