New action-comedy in Thailand with foreign lead?

 Over 9000:

any film that brings audience attention to Thailand and Thai films can't be a bad thing, right?

A film which plays into fetishised stereotypes as much as that reel though? Sorry but it's not something I can get on board with. Even the title feels like lazy othering.

 Saeng:

And the "Thai" script is just Latin letters made to look "Thai". Took me several minutes to figure out, I even started to doubt my Thai reading skills.
It doesn't feel that he's appreciating or even thinking about placing this in Thai culture, but only uses it as "exotic" backdrop. That's not "cheesy", that's colonial-era thinking.

Not to mention that in several stills, there's "Chinese" in the background (not sure if that is correct, but I doubt it). 

And are the stills "AI" generated? They look like it.

If that's the amount of care for culture and details that goes into the film later, then, no, thank you.

Yes, it was all AI generated aside from the royalty-free pictures.  It's not my project, so I'm not too sure of what it's meant to be like, but he told me it was an action-comedy.

I, personally, liked the Thai-looking Latin font - I felt it added more flavour to the Bangkok vibe, but that's just me.

As I wrote above: the project is by a Western company, so expect white (black?) stars in... an exotic location.  You were spot on in that aspect.

I didn't notice the Chinese language, but AI does silly things.

Not your point, but the dude above...
Yes, the project apparently laughs at hookers and lady-boys (or, at least, heavily features them) as being a part of the culture tourists are exposed to.

Finally: I've not heard anything from him since I posted this, so it could even be that this was a non-starter?
Film projects are like that: producers throw ideas out there, see if distributors and/or investors bite and go from there.  Projects that don't pick up interest or get a star attached quickly (a lot of distributors only want films with a so-called, "bankable name") are usually dropped, as to save resources.  This is why writers get shit deals on their "options" (a topic for another time).

I'm not sure what you mean by, "lazy othering", but tourists who go to Thailand all come back with tales of hookers and lady-boys.
If it's a project by a Western film company and is an action-comedy, then I think they're catering to their main market audience by utilising stereotypes people have of the country.  That's not really a bad thing - it's like shooting in Norway and saying, "We need snow."

 Elisheva:

the fake font to make a lazy title look exotic

Sorry to interfere in the discussion but FYI it's just an imitation font. There are many other imitation of foreign text such as Chinese, Japanese, Arabic, Indian (remember the font team India use on their sport's uniform?). 

In the case of the clip posted by OP, the font was only used for the character names. I did not see it as wanting to look exotic. It's not like they used the font for billboard or building or the surrounding.

However, the clip itself indeed looked unprofessional. It felt like it's been done by students but not by film students. ...lol Imagine Engineering students made it.

 Over 9000:

Long story short: it's a film by a Western company, set in Bangkok, and is a purposely cheesy, 1980s style film, that's surprisingly original and meant to be pretty arse-kicking!

1980's means B-grade movie shot for VHS, considering the cheesy-ness of the plot. Usually this kind of movie needs some big names, hot actresses that can do fanservice. 

Otherwise it will need to be heavily action-packed like Fast & Furious for example. A lot of stunts, explosion, car chases, etc.

BTW, that is just my opinion.

 Over 9000:

tourists who go to Thailand all come back with tales of hookers and lady-boys.

Yup, unfortunately I have to agree with this statement and I am not living in the west. It's undeniably one of the thing (most but not all) people want to "experience" if they ever go to Thailand. Of course there are many other tourist attractions as well. 

Thanks for the information. I think it depends on the people who want to fund the project. It's all good as long as both parties are happy. If I were rich I definitely won't be interested in the above "Barbara Streisand" reel (but that is just me) unless the people behind the project have some kind of convincing portfolios or maybe the story is unique or adaptation of something that already has strong fan base.

Yes AI capability isn't new and we all know it keep advancing day by day. That makes simple still image AI generation like in the reel above feels like slideshows made for school presentation. I say this from the eyes of person who's never involved in film making process so please don't take it too deeply.