Tekken's fight to the Big Screen
Filed under: Action, Deals, Sony
As we told you yesterday, Screen Gems has announced they will begin filming a $50 million dollar version of the popular fighting video game Tekken this fall. Dimension had originally picked up the rights to Tekken at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival but the film was dropped in the divorce to Disney. Didn't they learn anything from the Street Fighter and Mortal Combat movies? Fighting games don't translate well into a compelling movie plot. The script will be written by Face Off scribes Michael Colleary and Mike Werb, who are capible of turning out a good story. But I still tend to believe you can't make lemonade without the lemons. Mr. 3000/Drumline director Charles Stone III is also attached. At least it's not Paul WS Anderson (not to be confused with Paul Thomas Anderson) or Uwe Boll, who appears to be on a mission to ruin as many video game franchises as he possibly can. Why has nobody picked up the rights to a Zelda film yet?
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6-16-2005 @ 4:19PM
Bruce Darren Acosta said...
VIDEO GAMES TO MOVIES.
Charles Stone is working on Tekken,Sony's Screen Gems is releasing the film.
More news on cast soon.
Paul WS Anderson is screwed up the ideas with Dead or Alive movie,Maximllian Marsh and Weatherby should not be in the movie,
its supposed to have Leifang,Gen-Fu,Hayate and Jann Lee in the film and IMDb is screwing up the movie cast.J.F Lawton stuffed up the script with the story of bounty hunter it should change to four female characters or a
fighting tournament on the island and the story on the script must follow up to the game.
Samuel Hadida is producing Silent Hill and the story is follwing up to the game and Hadida is also going on production to work with Japan's Gaga Communications on onimusha movie.
Onimusha game cretors Keiji Inafune will write and direct and Keita Amamiya will co-write the script with Inafune and work on the characters and the film will be made in New Zealand.Takeshi Kaneshiro will be starring as Samanosuke and Donnie Yen as Jubei.
Uwe Boll is not a good director he turns
House of the Dead and Alone in the dark into shithole movies,he's working on Far Cry,Fear Effect,BloodRayne,Hunter:The Reckoning and makeing Namco arcade shooting game Ninja Assault.Boll can screw anything up but everybody hates that scumbag.
Lawrence Kasanoff's Threshold Entertainment
the company which made Mortal Kombat movie movies will be keen to to make movies based on Capcom's Darkstalkers series.Threshold and Capcom will make the good team to work on Darkstalkers series,better than that awful Street Fighter movie with Van Damme.
Thanks.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.
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