tekken the film

[doug maverick]

let's talk about tekken, i heard jet is going to be in it(he's also going to be in rogue with jason statham), but what i'm upset with is the director now the guy did a great job with Paid In Full. but all his other stuff pretty much sucked, i'm totally not impressed with the guy they should've used one of those music video directors they always do well with action(hype williams notwithstanding) maybe phillip G. Atwell or someone anyone except for charles stone. i think this is going to blow, i mean van dam street fighter blow, i mean mortal kombat 2 blow. but then again i could be wrong might have some grat fights if they get a good action director......... donnie yen anyone maybe sammo hung (i know they don't have yuen woo ping money but with jet attached who knows maybe) just please no corey yuen. he already screwed up DOA...

[jethro]

any more info? And when I saw the cast for DOA, I knew what you are talking about.

[GeneChing]

...but I'm sure there's more to come...

Video game Tekken big screen bound

The hit video game 'Tekken' is being made into a film.

Variety reports that the futuristic martial arts movie will begin shooting on 4 February in Louisiana.

Commenting on the film, director Dwight Little said: "The film plays out as a science fiction story set in the near future, about a rebel who rises up against the Tekken Corp to seize freedom for his people."
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He continued: "It's a gladiator story, but the videogame has a complicated enough storyline that it provides the template for a martial arts spectacular."

[doug maverick]

i'm just glad the kicked charles stone off the project.

[Shaolinlueb]

i thought hong kong made a bootleg tekken film a couple years ago. it was pretty bad... well not totally bad it was decent. it was called.......the avenging fist.

[doug maverick]

yeah that film was garbage. this film has a better idea there actually going to try and step away from the enter the dragon format on this one. i'm hereing that an early draft of the film is complete and looks promising. we'll see

[MasterKiller]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411951/

[GeneChing]

We spoke soon after the Shamrock fight. He was pretty excited about the role, but he was also talking up his role on Fighting. Cung is on the march. We'll be hearing a lot more from him soon.

[doug maverick]

he is super excited about it he's posting like ten bulletins a day about it. and his role in fighting as well. would love to see him and donnie yen in a flick togather

[Silent Assassin]

First image of Cung Le as Marshall Law
http://kotaku.com/5010111/first-look...-movie-costume

[Lucas]

Ttt

im looking forward to this one. Looks like a pretty good cast

[冠木侍]

he is super excited about it he's posting like ten bulletins a day about it. and his role in fighting as well. would love to see him and donnie yen in a flick togather

Donnie's MMA is pretty good and probably will get better. They would be good training partners.

[@PLUGO]

Here's a look at the Tekken trailer.

[hskwarrior]

http://ninjashoes.net/forum/showthre...w-Tekken-movie

i'm watching it now on fastpasstv.com.......didn't know cung le was in it

[GeneChing]

Anchor Bay Picks Up Tekken for a Wide Theatrical 2011 Release
Posted on Tuesday, September 14th, 2010 by Adam Quigley

We’ve seen a poster and a trailer for Tekken, but does anybody want to see Tekken itself?

Anchor Bay Films seems to think so, and that’s why they’re granting the film a wide theatrical release in 2011. Screwy business decision, or calculated risk? Check the box office breakdown after the break.

Coming Soon reports the news, saying that Anchor Bay acquired the U.S., Australia and New Zealand distribution rights to the film from Crystal Sky Pictures. They announce that the film “will be released widely in the United States in 2011″—the “widely” being the part that immediately caught my eye.

A wide release? Seriously?

When I saw Tekken’s trailer (the video from the original post has been taken down, but I’ve embedded a mirror below), I thought for sure the film would end up being dumped straight-to-DVD, copies of it building dust on the bottom of a rental store shelf. Then I spotted the tagline on the poster—”The Battle Begins Aug 5″—and was struck with a combination of fear, hate and sadness. That date passed though, and I had all but forgotten about the film. Balance had been restored to the universe.

And then this happened.

Anchor Bay must not have checked the box office tallies for video game adaptations, or else they’d know that, unless you have Angelina Jolie sporting a tight, tiny shirt, they don’t really perform too well. It also doesn’t bode well that three of the lowest ranking titles on that list are adaptations of fighting games, a subgenre that isn’t too highly populated. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li tops it with under $9 million in its coffers, and a dismal $12 million worldwide; Double Dragon took in an even sadder $2 million; and DOA: Dead or Alive gets the honor of being the lowest earning video game adaptation of all time, making less than half a million dollars overall.

Anchor Bay will be lucky to even make back their marketing costs with this one. It’s a shame, too, since they’ve only recently started to expand to the theatrical market, and many of their recent releases (Solitary Man, City Island) have been quite good. One has to wonder why they thought Tekken was the pony to back when jumping from limited to wide releases.

I have this and I've been meaning to watch it for the last week or two, but just haven't had the opportunity.