For friends of cultivated action cinema there is today the first official trailer for Skin Trade with Dolph Lundgren, Tony Jaa, Michael Jai White, Ron Perlman and Peter Weller. The American-Thai actioner was directed by Ekachai Uekrongtham ("Coffin - Buried Alive"), and "RoboCop" Peter Weller is also there.
New York cop Nick (Dolph Lundgren) is investigating a brutal Russian human trafficking ring. When the gangster boss Viktor (Ron Perlman) murders Nick's family so that he can abandon the case, the policeman is all the more hot about the heads of the criminals. The trail leads him to Bangkok, where he finds an ally in the local investigator Tony (Tony Jaa). Together they go in search of the members of the ring and especially Viktor, with whom Nick has a very personal chicken to pick ...
Looks promising and the flick seems to be going strong, has a fantastic cast for action fans and Dolph Lundgren is redeeming himself for some of the gherkins he's starred in since "retiring" as director ("Thrill to Kill") , «Swords of the King-Two Worlds», «Battle of the Damned» etc.). The film is scheduled to hit theaters in the US&A in 2015, but a German-language release date is not yet in sight.