Filming in Thailand

Thailand is blessed with beautiful locations, stunning sandy beaches, lush jungles, towering limestone outcrops, exotic wildlife and city landscapes yet remains a very economical place to film your project. Five star hotels are amongst the most reasonably priced in the world. Lighting, Grip Equipment and local camera crews are also readily available.

Since 1923 filmmakers have been coming to Thailand to capture the beauty of this exotic location.
For the movie "Alexander" Oliver Stone chose Thailand to shoot the elephant sequences,for his film "Heaven and Earth". Thailand doubled for Vietnam.

Who can forget the spectacular scenery of "Scaramanga's" Island hideout, in "The Man with the Golden Gun" or the haunting barren swamps in "The Killing Fields". However, it is not just the locations that attract filmmakers, Thailand has a well deserved reputation for delivering action filmmaking on a realistic budget.

Local Stunt Teams are very skilled, just look at the stunt work in local martial arts films "Ong Bak" and "Tom Yum Goong" to see amazing live action stunt work. Other crew, such as Camera Dept, Grip and Lighting are also very experienced and inexpensive compared to US rates, in fact they are 30% to 50% cheaper than their US counterparts and they are non union.

Neg and Print costs are well below US rates and so are locally purchased Insurance Packages.
Four and Five Star Hotels, on set catering and domestic travel are amongst the most reasonably priced in the world.

Action Movies Filmed or Partly Filmed in Thailand include:-

Alexander, Stealth, Sniper 3, The Deer Hunter, Year of the Dragon,The Phantom, Mortal Kombat 1 & 2, Kickboxer, Tomorrow Never Dies, The Man with the Golden Gun, The Great Challenge, The Quest, Belly of the Beast, Into the Sun, Streetfighter 2, Saigon, Beyond Boarders, Rambo 3 and 4, Tom Yum Goong, Ong Bak, Chok Dee, Around the World in 80 Days, Rescue Dawn, A Bright Shining Lie, Shanghai and Marine II.

Bring your next Action Film Project to Thailand and Taipan Special Effects will assist you by supplying you with world class Special Effects, Weapons and Armory, Explosions, Pyrotechnics, Fire, Rain, Visual Gunshot Wound Bullet Hit Squibs and a wide range of movie guns from the 1600's to the most modern machineguns and assault rifles.

If you are considering filming in South East Asia, be it Thailand, Vietnam, Laos or the South Pacific Islands please give us a call to discuss your project.

If you are considering filming in South East Asia, be it Thailand, Vietnam, Laos or the South Pacific Islands please give us a call to discuss your project.

Kevin Chisnall
Bangkok, Thailand
Tel:- +66 8904 929 17
E-Mail:- Kevin @ taipansfx.com