Lionsgate has acquired the rights to Bangkok Dangerous, which was directed by Hong Kong helmers Oxide Pang Chun and Danny Pang.  The film, which is a remake of the Pang brothers critically acclaimed 1999 movie that won the International Critics Award at the Toronto Film Festival, stars Nicholas Cage as an assassin who travels to the exotic city at the behest of a crime lord to kill four people, but changes his mind after he meets a beautiful Thai woman.

In the original 1999 film, which was the first film directed by the Pang brothers, the assassin was a deaf-mute, which lent a certain chilling distance to his character, but the Nickster likes his lines, so in the remake it's his Thai girlfriend who is the deaf mute.

Lionsgate is planning to release Bangkok Dangerous this summer and back it with a substantial marketing campaign.  Lionsgate recently released The Eye, which starred Jessica Alba in a remake of the Hong Kong horror film Jian Gui, which was directed by the Pang brothers.