Tekken Film to Officially Hit US

[John Funk]

Tekken Film to Officially Hit US

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The live-action Tekken movie now has an official distributor for the United States, New Zealand, and Australia. Joy of joys!

I'm going to be honest, here: I really have no idea what's going on with the Tekken movie adaptation. First, we saw the said he'd hated it [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/97523-Tekken-Movie-Trailer-Isnt-Appalling]. So it had apparently been released at some point, somewhere in the world ... but that somewhere hadn't been here.

Well, that's going to change. A company called Anchor Bay Films has picked up the distribution rights for the flick [http://horrornews.net/11629/anchor-bay-films-acquires-tekken-for-distribution/], and will be "widely" releasing Tekken in the US, New Zealand and Australia next year. I'm imagining that this will be a straight-to-DVD affair, since I can't see anyone seeing this sort of thing in theaters.

That said, while Tekken game director Katsuhiro Harada may have hated the film, I've heard that it does have some fairly awesome action sequences, so it does have that going for it. And let's be honest: It doesn't look any more absurd than the Tekken games already are. This is the series with a boxing kangaroo and a kung-fu-fighting bear, remember?

"Crystal Sky has invested millions in the production, making sure they were able to convey not only the incredible fight scenes, but also the emotional journey of the main character, Jin," said Anchor Bay Films president Bill Clark in the press release.

I suppose punching a kangaroo in the face does count as a kind of emotion, yes.

(Via MTV Multiplayer [http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2010/09/14/tekken-movie-to-be-released-and-emotional-in-2011/])

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[laryri]

Of all the games to make into a movie, why Tekken? It's not super popular, it doesn't have a good plot. It just doesn't make sense.

 

[Sacman]

This confuses me greatly...

 

[TehIrishSoap]

More Importantly, Why Isin't There A GTA Or COD Movie?!?!

 

[DTWolfwood]

Im going to watch for the same reason y i eventually saw Dragonballz and SF:legend of Chun-li. They are like Trainwrecks, you know you shouldn't look but at the same time you can't look away. XD

 

[Cherry Cola]

More Importantly, Why Isin't There A GTA Or COD Movie?!?!

Because the God's have blessed us, at least for the time being, to be without such utter shit.

 

[Casual Shinji]

Is it really that time again?

 

[Gigaguy64]

I...i......sigh.
If even the Creator of the series hated it then i know i probably wont like it.

Though it will be fun to see live action Infinite Juggles.

 

[The Great JT]

We don't want it.

 

[iLikeHippos]

I can't see anything decent coming out of this, except the action.

Don't get me wrong, I have played Tekken 2, 3, 4 and 5.
And what do I know?

Storyline... Is shit. But it's nice that they gave it a shot. But what I can expect, is that it will be balanced out by AWESOME ACTION!!!

 

[StriderShinryu]

Watched it a couple weeks ago. The best thing I can say about it is that the fight scenes are decent. Oh, and the girl who plays Christie is extremely hot (though she doesn't use Capoeira in the movie).

The story is definitely inspired by the games but tends to focus more on the situation in the world at large than on the screwed up dynamics of the Mishima family.. and as under used as the Mishima relations are as a whole, the side characters get it even worse. Even the one upside to the movie, the fight scenes, is dragged down by the fact that outside of Eddy none of the characters in the movie (even the Mishimas themselves) fight anything like they do in the games.

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

I don't care how bad it is, I want a UK release! I imagine it'd cost a bomb to import one from Australia.

 

[CakeDragon]

Where is Paul? Where is Hworang?? Their lack of presence upsets me.

 

[Stabby Joe]

More Importantly, Why Isin't There A GTA Or COD Movie?!?!

Because a CoD movie would just be any other war movie done hundreds of times before, while GTA would work better as a crime series... one that has been done hundreds of times before.

 

[Icehearted]

I hate to be a picker of nits, but Jin Kazama (personal fave) didn't look very Japanese. I think a comedy with Anna Vs Nina would have been much better! Also, Tagawa is a pretty good actor, so why he keeps getting himself into these craptacular video game movie deals is a mystery, at least to me.

 

[the_maestro_sartori]

Half of the original Tekken cast aren't shown there, and half of the ones that are weren't until tekken 3 or after. Confused.
How do you have a king of Iron Fist without Paul Phoenix? Disappointing. Also, is that "peoples choice" kid really meant to be Jin? wtf >.>

Looks totally broken, but ya know, I'll still prolly pick it up since I'm a big fan of the games.

 

[feeback06]

Wait a second... didn't they make a Tekken anime movie?

 

[Distorted Stu]

Ive seen it. ITS BAD.

but the character design and costumes are done pretty sweet!

 

[StriderShinryu]

Wait a second... didn't they make a Tekken anime movie?

They did.. and god, it was awful. This Tekken movie is watchable. The Tekken anime, however, is brain searingly bad.

Half of the original Tekken cast aren't shown there, and half of the ones that are weren't until tekken 3 or after. Confused.
How do you have a king of Iron Fist without Paul Phoenix? Disappointing. Also, is that "peoples choice" kid really meant to be Jin? wtf >.>

Looks totally broken, but ya know, I'll still prolly pick it up since I'm a big fan of the games.

Basically, the movie sort of uses the storyline for Tekken 3 as it's starting point. So, Jin's the main character and Paul's just a side character bordering on being a joke character (in terms of his actual place in the storyline, anyway). Paul does get mentioned in the movie in a throwaway line, but you never see him.