King of Fighters - Live-Action?!?

[areaseven]

From the Anime News Network:

Japanese, US Companies Fund Live-Action King of Fighters

As the Cannes Film Festival comes to a close, Variety has reported that a live-action feature film based on SNK's King of Fighters series of videogames is confirmed for production.

Japan's Micott & Basara and the American distribution company Arclight Films will be jointly financing the project. Joseph Chou (who is also currently working on the Appleseed sequel Ex Machina) and Tim Kwok (Wicked City) will co-produce the film, with Hong Kong film industry veteran Gordon Chan (most familiar to Western audiences as the director of Jackie Chan's 2003 film The Medallion) signing up to direct. Shooting is scheduled to commence in the first quarter of 2008 in Asia.

[Hikuro]

Well.........ya know I dunno what to say....it can't get any worse then Mortal Kombat 2....or Street Fighter, but it realy can't be that much better.

[areaseven]

Hopefully, it won't be worse than DOA: Dead or Alive.

[kensei]

I'll reserve judgement. I just don't know......

[ruskiiVFaussie]

lol, i never got to see DoA, and i have a certain thing for Ms Valance.

i gathered it was crappy but...

If they can get the emotion going that the anime movie brought us this will rock.

Joe better kick ass!

[Warmaker]

Ah yes.

There was the Mortal Kombat movies.

Now I will say the 4 Words of Unholiness.

Live Action Street Fighter

[kanedaestes]

"I am going to kick Bison's ass so hard that every Bison wanna be will feel it." - Col. William Guile/ Jean-Claude Van Damme....yeah greatest line ever lol!

[VF-1James]

"I am going to kick Bison's ass so hard that every Bison wanna be will feel it." - Col. William Guile/ Jean-Claude Van Damme....yeah greatest line ever lol!

Wrong. The greatest line ever was delivered by Raul Julia/M. Bison. "You came here expecting to fight a madman, but instead you found a god!" Yeah, that sums up the movie for me right there...

[kanedaestes]

Ah too true too true

[areaseven]

No, there were better lines on that film:

Ryu: "You're Edmond Honda, the sumo wrestling champ from Hawaii. You almost became Yokozuna."

E. Honda: "That was until Bison ruined my reputation."

Balrog: "Same with my boxing career."

Ken: (looking at Chun-Li) "Let me guess...figure skating?"

Guile: "It's the Collection Agency, Bison. Your ass is six months over due, and it's mine."

Bison: "You have made me a very happy man."

Guile: "And next, I'll make you a dead one."

Cammy: "Cammy here, are you all right?"

Guile: "I'm okay. I'm just half dead."

Cammy: "And Bison?"

Guile: "All dead."

And this line sums up the entire movie:

Zangief: "Quick! Change the channel!"

Edited May 29, 2007 by areaseven

[TheLoneWolf]

Hopefully the movie will eschew Falcoon's flamboyant character designs and stick with the Shinkiro's down-to-earth designs, but knowing live-action films they'll probably get Elton John to design all the costumes.

[Shin Densetsu Kai 7.0]

Hopefully the movie will eschew Falcoon's flamboyant character designs and stick with the Shinkiro's down-to-earth designs, but knowing live-action films they'll probably get Elton John to design all the costumes.

Shinkiro FTW!

[Sumdumgai]

I have a feeling this is going to suck. Just too easy for so many things to go wrong. Like going with any of the storylines after '97.

It would be awesome if they adapted the KOF Kyo manga's story for the movie.

[ruskiiVFaussie]

guys, whos producing this? Japs or Western influence?

dare i say it and despondently SF the movie was made in AUSTRALIA. with moreso western influence correct?

i mean come on, it had Kylie Minogue. lol ... as cammy. lol lol lol lol lol

NO the best one liner from SF the movie was Bison goin on about his..

M A G N E T I C B O O T S ! !

We all know why Raul Julia had those heart attacks and eventually ...... I wanted Adam's Family 3!!! BASTARDS!

and another thing, Ken is my fav character... look what they did to him! BOO HOO HOO!

no this movie will NOT be like SF, they have learnt there lesson.

Edited May 29, 2007 by ruskiiVFaussie

[areaseven]

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Guys, who's producing this? Japanese or Western influence?

Dare I say it, and despondently, SF the Movie was made in AUSTRALIA, with moreso western influence, correct?

I mean, come on, it had Kylie Minogue. lol ... as Cammy. lol lol lol lol lol

NO - the best one-liner from SF the Movie was Bison goin' on about his..

M A G N E T I C B O O T S ! !

We all know why Raul Julia had those heart attacks and eventually ... I wanted Addams Family 3!!! BASTARDS!

And another thing, Ken is my favorite character. Look what they did to him! BOO HOO HOO!

No, this movie will NOT be like SF; they have learned their lesson.

Like the article says, it's a Japan/US co-production. I doubt that the KOF movie will primarily be of Japanese influence, but since it's not as mainstream as SF or DOA, you'll never know until actual screenshots are released.

And what exactly was Bison's line about his magnetic boots? It couldn't have been funnier than Zangief's line on changing the channel.

[Warmaker]

Well, since we're talking Life Action Fighting Game Movies and SNK, how about a Live Action Samurai Shodown / Samurai Spirits!

We're talking swords and s**t, here! You can't go wrong!

[terry the lone wolf]

OMG!!! I sooooooooooooooooooooo hope they don't screw this up because a live-action Mai Shiranui would totally rock!! Terry yells-POWER GEYSER!!!!!

[Scream Man]

Yeah as long as Terry is coo,, Ill be happy

and Kens line about Figure Skating to Chun Li always got a grin out of me.

[Sumdumgai]

Live-action Mai Shiranui cannot be done No way of getting that size of anti-grav boobs on a live woman.

[wolfx]

Live-action Mai Shiranui cannot be done No way of getting that size of anti-grav boobs on a live woman.

So they'll just do what they did with DoA.

Cast Devon Aoki as Mai.

[VF-1James]

Wow, come to think of it, there were A LOT of lines in Street Fighter that are worth cringing over. The electro-magnetism crap made no sense, and was one of the worst lines in the movie as well.

And yeah, Mai's probably not going to end up nearly as nice as we'd all like...

[areaseven]

Live-action Mai Shiranui cannot be done No way of getting that size of anti-grav boobs on a live woman.

That's why you cast either Jun Kusanagi or Anna Ohura as Mai.

[Sumdumgai]

They need to get an actor with a deep voice and good at acting berserk to play Iori, and an actress good at appearing cold and being able to go animalistic psycho as Leona.

[Black Valkyrie]

They never learn ... . Samurai Shodown would been better as movie.

[1/1 LowViz Lurker]

i mean come on, it had Kylie Minogue. lol ... as cammy. lol lol lol lol lol

It weird but not as weird as what they did to blanka!

Carlos Blanka = Charlie :D

So that's what happened to him. Bison captured him, experimented on him, and he became blanka!

The one thing they did right was allow van damne to do a somersault kick. SF special moves normally don't translate well into live action. I knew in the back of my ind this was going to not be like the game where you can just accept that people defy gravity and float in the air (yoga power?) and do spin kicks that allow them to hover on the ground, (hurricane kick) or just project some magic chi energy from their hands to finish people off.

Mortal Kombat can get away with it since the game used people. So anyone who had seen Big Trouble in Little China was prepared to except some of this. (remember that guy with the chinese hat who had lightning coming out of his eyes and mouth?)

Edited May 30, 2007 by 1/1 LowViz Lurker

[myk]

And yeah, Mai's probably not going to end up nearly as nice as we'd all like...

With the billions upon billions of people and genetic possibilities out there, I refuse to believe that there isn't some woman out there that doesn't look close to this, minus the eyes of course:

[Warmaker]

With the billions upon billions of people and genetic possibilities out there, I refuse to believe that there isn't some woman out there that doesn't look close to this, minus the eyes of course:

Looks is one thing.

But can they at least act without someone standing 2 feet away from her onscreen with cue cards and her staring at the cards all the time while recording?

[kensei]

Hereeeee comes Areaseven!

[myk]

Looks is one thing.

But can they at least act without someone standing 2 feet away from her onscreen with cue cards and her staring at the cards all the time while recording?

Lol. I dunno' about you man, but if I met a girl that looked like that I WANT her to be dumb and completely impressionable. I did get that Mai statue by the way-she's gotta' be the hottest piece of anime-statue-ass I've ever seen...