 Similar to "Ong-Bak", which was also choreographed by Panna Rittikrai and produced by Prachya Pinkaew, "Mercury Man" contains "shout outs" to Western films.References to "Spider-Man" are seen throughout "Mercury Man", in dialogue, in Spider-Man T-shirts worn by extras and through spray-painted messages in the scenery, such as "Spidy how R U?