According to the Thai Film Office, two of Hollywood’s biggest stars will be shooting big budget films soon, with Thailand as their backdrops. Rambo-star Sylvester Stallone and Oscar-winner Denzel Washington are both set to film movies in Thailand within the next few months.
Sylvester Stallone is returning from retirement and making his Hollywood comeback in “Rambo IV: In the Serpent’s Eye”. “The movie will be shot in the country’s lush, mountainous northern provinces,” says Wanasiri Morakul, director of the Thailand Film Office.
In the latest sequel, John Rambo is pulled out of retirement in Bangkok to help find missionary aid workers who disappear as they’re delivering supplies to ethnic minorities in neighbouring Myanmar.

Washington is due to arrive in Thailand in the first week of November to play Harlem heroin kingpin Frank Lucas in “American Gangster”, a movie about drugs being smuggled to New York in the 1970’s inside the coffins of American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War.
Only about 5 percent of the movie will be shot in Thailand – in the capital Bangkok and in the mountainous north – employing about 250 Thai’s and bringing the country at least 60 million baht (US$1.6 million, euro1.3 million), Wanasiri said.
Thailand has touted itself as an ideal film location and had a total of 372 shoots this year for foreign movies, TV series, ads and music videos, worth 1.38 billion baht (US$37 million, euro29 million).

Recent blockbusters shot partially in Thailand include “Alexander” and “Star Wars Episode III”.

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