The Pang Brothers

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The Pang Brothers are Danny Pang and Oxide Pang Chun, twin-brother screenwriters and film directors, born in 1965 in Hong Kong. Among their films is the hit Asian horror film, The Eye, which has spawned two sequels, as well as a forthcoming Hollywood remake. Besides working in Hong Kong, the pair frequently work in the Thai film industry, where they made their directorial debut as a team, Bangkok Dangerous.

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[edit] Biography

Oxide, the older of the two by 15 minutes, started his career in Bangkok as a telecine colorist. He made his first film, the experimental karmic thriller, Who Is Running?, in 1997. It was Thailand's entry for Academy Award for the Best Foreign Film for the 71st Academy Awards in 1998.

Danny is well known as a film editor, and has worked on a number of Hong Kong films, including The Storm Riders and the Infernal Affairs series.

They first teamed up to write and direct the Thai film, Bangkok Dangerous, in 1999.

They then made The Eye, The Eye 2 and a third film, called The Eye 10. The Eye is being remade by Hollywood, produced by Tom Cruise and Paula Wagner.

Aside from The Eye and other horror films, the Pangs made two more edgy Thai crime films in the same vein as Bangkok Dangerous, Danny with 1+1=0 and Oxide with Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale. Together the three crime films form a loose "Bangkok Trilogy".

When the Pangs work together, they direct scenes in the film independently of each other. Oxide Pang explains:

“ In a shooting location there is always only one Pang at a time; it helps us save our energy. One day I'll be shooting, the other, Danny will. I know a lot of people are amazed, but we do have a strong connection, I guess, as twins. And we have a lot of meetings on the script, we sit down in front of a storyboard and we have the same visuals conception.[1] ”

Their 2006 horror film, Re-cycle, was the closing film in the Un Certain Regard competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. The film reunited the brothers with Angelica Lee, the star of The Eye.

Among their other projects are a Hollywood-backed, English-language film, a thriller called The Messengers, starring John Corbett, which was released in theaters on February 2, 2007, and Time to Kill, a remake of Bangkok Dangerous, to star Nicholas Cage and due to start production in August 2006.

Oxide produced a remake of Who Is Running? in 2005, called The Remaker, with Mona Nahm directing. He has completed a solo project, Diary.

Danny also has a solo project, Forest of Death, a thriller about an enchanted forest.

Both Diary and Forest of Death, as well as Re-cycle, have been picked up for distribution in the United Kingdom by Image Entertainment. [2]

[edit] Personal lives

Oxide Pang and actress Angelica Lee are in a relationship and were rumored to be engaged, but marriage plans have been put on hold. [3] [4]

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Pang Brothers

[edit] Oxide Pang

[edit] As director

[edit] Danny Pang

[edit] As director

  • 1+1=0 (Nothing to Lose) (2002)
  • Leave Me Alone (2004)
  • Forest of Death (2006)

[edit] As editor

[edit] References

  1. ^ Jessop, Sonia Kolesnikov (July 13, 2006). "Pang brothers see eye-to-eye on horror", International Herald Tribune, retrieved July 14, 2006.
  2. ^ Business Wire (June 14, 2006). "Image Entertainment (UK) Helps Secure Distribution Deal to 'Re-Cycle,' 'Diary' and 'Forest of Death'", via Yahoo!, July 14, 2006.
  3. ^ Tan, Jeanine (July 6, 2006), "It's a horror film, not a crusade", Channel NewsAsia.
  4. ^ Ee-tan, Chow (July 6, 2006, "I see dead people", Malay Mail.

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