Tekken Film Gets Director
December 22nd, 2007 by Rajiv Ashrafi in Action, News, PlayStation 3
With the live action Tekken movie going into production in February 2008, Variety reveals through an interview with Dwight Little that the Anacondas 2 and Free Willy 2 director will helm the upcoming adaptation of Namco Bandai’s popular fighting franchise.
“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,” he explained to Variety. “It’s a gladiator story, but the video game has a complicated enough storyline that it provides the template for a martial arts spectacular.”
The movie’s script has been written by Alan McElroy (Left Behind, Spawn, Halloween 4), so set your expectations low. Very, very low.
Tags: Action, News, PlayStation 3
December 24th, 2007 at 2:41 am
TEKKEN MOVIE IS NOT A GOOD SIGN.
Dwight Little and Alan McElroy will work with Crystal sky on the Tekken and filming locations is Louisiana and this is all rubbish so what’s wrong with Asian filmmakers making the film they can do it and Tekken should be filmed in Japan.
So I’m saying is Tekken the movie is going to be bad.
Hollywood should get their hands on another fighting game Virtua Fighter for the big screen as a futurastic martial arts movie based on the Virtua Fighter 5 game.
Simon West and Warren Zide should do the Virtua Fighter movie.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.
December 24th, 2007 at 8:04 am
Some things are just meant to be left to the pioneers. Asian movie directors make the greatest action/martial arts films, period. Hollywood could never produce movies like “Crouching Tiger,” or “Fearless,” or “House of Flying Daggers” without the help of ingeneous martial arts choreographers- most of whom come from Asia. Dwight Little and Alan McElroy??? I’m dying to see how this mockery of Martial Arts Action films turns out.