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-- Ong Bak 2 --
Twitch has just released the Ong Bak 2 trailer that was shown recently at Cannes Film Festival in May. Ong Bak 2, showcasing Tony Jaa in his directorial debut, was shot late last year and is expected to be released late this year at the earliest. Featuring a wide variety of martial arts, this looks extremely promising, if somewhat violent, with choreography being taken to the next level for a Tony Jaa film.

On the other hand, it's painful and sad to see the elephants got stomped on by people doing stunts on them, and hopefully the animals weren't mistreated or harmed during filming. And in Chinese films, the poor horses are often tripped while galloping at high speed, and might have been hurt badly due to the impact of the fall (if they weren't using mattresses for the horses) or their legs running into ropes all of sudden. Shouldn't all these stunts and tricks whatsoever be done away with or be done using CGIs to avoid harming the animals, especially when there is no assurance on the matter, as opposed to Hollywood productions?

 
Ong Bak 2, a sequel in name only, moves the narrative back in time and stars Tony Jaa as a young man saved from execution by a group of global martial artists as a boy who has since trained in every one of their arts in an attempt to fuse them all into one master martial art.  Poster: Mtime

Watch the promo reel at Twitch.