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Tom Yum Goong 2 – The Protector 2 Update

A few of you have emailed me over the last couple of weeks asking whether or not it's true that I'm involved in the forthcoming Tom Yum Goong 2 (The Protector 2) movie. Some of you saw some talk on Facebook and others saw my name mentioned on a Muay Thai site. And so I thought I post on this and tell you what I can about my involvement.

The reason I have chosen not to write about this to date is because the set has a strict code of conduct about leaking information. I also don't know what parts will be used and what will be cut, and therefore I don't want to say I will be featured a lot as I don't know what will be edited.

What I can tell you is that I am playing a support role to one of the lead actors Mum Jokmuk (Pee Mum). So far I have shot a number of scenes and done a few lines here and there. We are still filming and have been for some months.

My involvement in the movie came about as a result of my martial arts experience, although I do not feature in a fighting role. I'd been approached a number of times to cast for other roles in Bangkok, but had never wanted to get involved in a life of casting, shortlisting and waiting around on agents, etc. Besides, I have my own business to take care of. Anyway, long story short, I guy I trained Wing Chun with took some action shots of me some time ago and they found their way to the director of the movie, who then got in touch and cast me for the role.

The movie will be in 3D and released in 30 countries I believe. It will take on the name The Protector 2 in the US, and Warrior King 2 in the UK (that's an assumption based on the first film).

It's been a wonderful experience and a privilege to work with the likes of Tony Ja, Jeeja, and Mum Jokmuk. I've also met some other great people too, including one of Thailand's/SE Asia's leading actor/models Tom Stanton – who has become a good friend, and Co-director Adrian Bowden, who has recently married Jeeja Yanin after they fell in love on the set.

Some people work so hard for many years to get a break doing something like this, and as such I feel blessed to have been given the opportunity. What from here I don't know. I have enjoyed the challenge but I'm not chasing anything else. If the right door opens, sounding fun and not stressful, I'll do it.

I will blog more on this when I can release more details >> probably on the release date, which will be early 2013 I should imagine.

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  1. This piece of shit of a movie is taking super long to be available theres still nothing on it at all. Im sick of looking at the stupid pictures and trailers. I almost forgot about this movie because I lost interest in it from the long wait, and the curse interest reignited when I just finished watching Tom yum goong 1 on DVD. It got me curious to check wether this stupid movie was out yet or not, and wow still nothing yet at all. It came out when October ? and we’re in almost mid December. This rate itll probably be out in mid 2014 in the stupid western side of the world, the side of the world with delayed releases. Ill probably completely forget about this piece of shit as time goes on, im looking more forward to Ninja 2, and Berandal now, I don’t really care much for this delayed trash.
    Goodbye TYG 2 sorry but the super long wait for the official release to now the wait for “when?”, no thanks.

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  2. Speaking of lame Hollywood, anyone ever read the title by Hollywood for Ong bak 1 “Hollywood blockbuster” ? them quoting it as if they motivated or helped produce the movie or something ? they didn’t do nothing and like to just steal from Asian movies and pawn it off as their own thing. Hollywoods pathetic, they may have a lot of money but that doesn’t make them great at what they do, they’ve scammed people for money by making cheap movies.

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  3. Im so fed up and sick and tired of waiting on this movie, from its long awaited official release to now “when will it be available?” in the west, and I live in Canada sadly. Since its release, NOTHING yet for it and its so ridiculous. This is the bad thing about living in the west, you get crappy action and martial arts movies from Hollywood, and heavy delays on great eastern movies that are actually worth spending your money on.
    It’s time to forget this movie and move on to other movies, at this rate we’ll probably see a release date in the west by mid 2014, shitty gay western world.

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    • Hey B, the film is doing the rounds in Asia at the moment and has not long been released. It came out on the 13th October and stayed in Cinemas in Thailand for about 3 weeks. I’ve seen the 3D and standard versions, and while the storyline feels bit-pieced together (largely because it was filmed over such a long period of time) it is action packed with awesome fight scenes. I was told by the director that Magnet Releasing has secured North American rights to the film and will be releasing it under the title The Protector 2. I don’t know exactly when this will be.

      I totally agree it has been way too long coming, and the US release should have been arranged shortly after the Asia release.

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    • Yes, you are correct this is in Thailand and it says it is a new movie. The actual article is about Tony Jaa’s father reporting him missing for 3 months. he told the police that Tony didn’t send money to his family because his wife is stopping him seeing them. The article doesn’t name the film, but yes, these are pictures from a new movie.

      Thanks for the news!

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