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In Ong Bak 3, I was the action director and I co-directed the movie with Tony Jaa.
Tony and his stuntmen designed the detail of the action sequences.
Their ideas are original.
I can't believe they can think of those spectacular scenes.
It's really worth watching.
What's completely different from the previous Ong Bak movies
is the new fighting style that came from Tony's creativity and research.
We have to create something new for another Ong Bak movie.
In the first Ong Bak movie, we were successful with Muay Thai.
In Tom-Yum-Goong,
Tony was inspired by a Muay Thai move known as "Elephant Trampling".
And he developed a lot more moves from the original one.
It's his special talent.
Ong Bak 3 is completely different from those movies
because he was inspired by Thai Deawcing art,
especially "Khon".
Everything is new because we don't want to repeat what we have done before.
The movie talks little about philosophy.
We have good guys and bad guys.
Actually the story is connected to Ong Bak 2.
In Ong Bak 2, Tien was obsessed with desires,
but in Ong Bak 3, he found enlightenment.
And of course, the highlights of this movie are those action scenes,
because it's our style.
We stun the audience with Nat-ta-yut and big production values.
The elephant scene you saw in Ong Bak 2 was just the introduction
to the full spectacular elephant scene in this movie.
You will see clearly what Tony had in his mind.
The elephant scene is actually the highlight of Ong Bak 3.
It's the craziest one of Tony Jaa's scenes,
because he and his team played with elephants which is very dangerous.
There's a scene where Tony jumps over an elephant
to kick an enemy sitting on another elephant.
His enemy falls down to the elephant's tusks and at that moment,
if the elephant had swung up its tusks,
the actor would have been stabbed to death.
I think it's startling to see people fighting each other
with elephants standing around.
Especially when Tony swings himself on an elephant's tusks,
he could be thrown out for a mile.
At the same time, we wanted the audience to feel the tension
when Tony and Deaw got into a fight because they have equal fighting skills,
it's just that Deaw plays a bad guy.
When the audience sees Deaw on screen
they should think that he is a deadly enemy for Tony Jaa.
That's our intention.
You can see that our movies are all about Thai culture.
The first Ong Bak was about finding the missing Buddha statue's head.
Tom-Yum-Goong was about finding the stolen elephant.
And now in Ong Bak 3 we'd like to talk about Buddhism.
Our movies promote Thai culture and present Thai beliefs to the world.
We use those action sequences to draw people to the cinema.
Once they see the movie, they'll get what we're trying to communicate.
The production is amazing.
The location is great, and the palace scene especially looks so real.
The details of the palace are from our research.
We've spent the great amount of money for this scene.
We shot this movie in Thailand and all the locations are amazing.
You may not recognise some places or don't know them at all.
Those locations are suitable for a period movie.
And they look so special in Ong Bak 3.
We travelled all over Thailand to shoot this movie.
And I can't finish the interview without talking about Petchthai Wongkomlao.
Petchthai had a more important role in this movie.
He played more action and funny scenes.
You'll see him mocking Tony's fighting moves.
Unfortunately, it was a real battle.
Petchthai is very funny.
I think he's a comedy genius.
This is a serious movie, not a full comedy that we're used to seeing him in.
But he can create jokes without ruining the plot.
I am really impressed.
Ong Bak is a legend.
The first Ong Bak movie is not the beginning of the story,
but Ong Bak 3 is.
I mean we tell the story backwards.
Ong Bak 3 will be the last movie of the Ong Bak series.
I think every detail of this movie is very interesting.
I would like to invite Ong Bak fans
both in Thailand and overseas
to watch the end of this legend.
I don't want anyone to miss Ong Bak 3.
