Biography
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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.
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.
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:
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, due for release in 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. 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.
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. Tan, Jeanine (July 6, 2006), "It's a horror film, not a crusade", Channel NewsAsia. Ee-tan, Chow (July 6, 2006, "I see dead people", Malay Mail.
Filmography
Pang Brothers
- Bangkok Dangerous (1999)
- The Eye (2002)
- Sung horn (Omen) (2003)
- The Eye 2 (2004)
- The Eye 10 (2005)
- Re-cycle (2006)
- The Messengers (2007)
- Time to Kill (remake of Bangkok Dangerous, in development for 2007)
Oxide Pang
As director
- Who Is Running? (1997)
- Bangkok Haunted (2001)
- Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale (One Take Only) (2001)
- The Tesseract (2003)
- Ab-normal Beauty (2004)
- Diary (2006)
Danny Pang
As director
- [[1+1=0]] (Nothing to Lose) (2002)
- Leave Me Alone (2004)
- Forest of Death (2006)
As editor
- The Storm Riders (1998)
- Infernal Affairs (2002)
- Infernal Affairs II (2003)
- Infernal Affairs III (2003)
- The Park (2003)
- Sung horn (Omen) (2003)
- The Eye 2 (2004)
- Bar Paradise (2005)
- The Messengers (2007)
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