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Exclusive: King of Fighters details revealed
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
The MovieSet Blog has learned details about the latest video game to be turned into a movie and no, Uwe Boll is nowhere near this project’s set (hey, speaking of Mr. Boll whatever happened to the release of Far Cry?) The film is called King of Fighters and is based on the SNK Playmore arcade fighting game that debuted in 1994 and has spawned 11 sequels and 13 — yeah, you read that right — 13 spinoff games. By comparison, Capcom’s Street Fighter and Midway’s Mortal Kombat brawler franchises are still in the single digits with their sequels.
Learn all the cast, crew and story details after the jump, player!
The King of Fighters movie quietly began filming in Vancouver, Canada on November 27 under the eye of director Gordon Chan, the dynamic Hong Kong-born helmer of Fist of Legend, Beast Cop and the 2003 Jackie Chan movie The Medallion. The screenplay is by newcomer Rita Augustine.
The movie stars Maggie Q (Live Free and Die Hard), Sean Faris (Never Back Down), Will Yun Lee (Elektra), Francoise Yip (Aliens vs. Predator - Requiem), Monique Ganderton (Supernatural) and the coolest Sith Lord ever, Ray Park (a.k.a. Darth Maul from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace). It also looks like the King of Fighters movie will introduce a new science fiction spin into the setting established in the games’ universe by following the surviving members of three legendary fighting clans who are continually whisked away to other dimensions by an evil power. As the fighters enter each new world they battle that universe’s native defenders, while the force that brought them seeks to find a way to invade and infect our world. Pardon me while I show how much of a nerd I am but it kind of sounds like a little bit of Highlander and Marvel’s Exiles comic book series. Not that I’m complaining, I’m just sayin’.
Joseph Chou, Tim Kwok and Bobby Sheng are the film’s producers. The movie is targeted for a 2010 release.
Posted at 3:23PM by Patrick
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snaporaz said on December 3rd, 2008 at 10:08 am:
Um…street fighter has way more than 11 sequels and 13 spinoffs…
street fighter, 6 versions of street fighter 2, three street fighter 3’s, 3 (or 4 depending on how you count) street fighter alphas, three street fighter ex’s, street fighter 4, and this isnt even counting the versus series.
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NeoGeo Battle Colliseum, I could see this being. King of Fighters? Oh. Fuck. No. “!”. (The biggest stretch would be putting 3 new heroes at the leads, and again, being more NGBC-like with it’s featured cast. But why call it a KoF?)
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