Dwight Little is directing the big screen adaptation of Namco’s Tekken. Little is the guy responsible for crappy bargain bin titles such as Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid and Marked for Death, which starred Steven Seagal. And the screenplay was written by Alan McElroy, the guy behind The Marine, Wrong Turn, and Halloween 4. Why is it that video game adaptations always attrac class-c directing and writing talent? With all the people working in Hollywood, their must be someone better that is willing to sell out for some good fast money.
According to Variety, the story “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. It’s a gladiator story, but the videogame has a complicated enough storyline that it provides the template for a martial arts spectacular.”
Usually I would attempt to layout my argument against this movie, but I think the facts presented above are more than enough to convince you of this film’s eventual disastrous fate. Principal photography begins on February 4th 2008 in Shreveport, LA.
December 20th, 2007 at 9:11 am
Marked For Death was friggin awesome. A worthy follow up Seagal film to Hard To Kill.
“One thought he was invincible, the other thought he could fly……”
(Whiplash deadpan head turn)
“They were both wrong.”
:0
December 20th, 2007 at 9:46 am
I’ll admit Marked For Death is by far the best non-Andrew Davis Seagal film and one of my truly guilty pleasures, but…
“…the facts presented above are more than enough to convince you of this film’s eventual disastrous fate.”
Truer words were never said. I believe they have now come out the DVD premiere closet.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Just for the record, Dwight Little also directed Halloween 4, which is actually pretty good considering. So this is his second project with McElroy.
P.S. I also remember working in a video store when Marked for Death came out and one of my co-workers asked if I saw it. I said no and that I had no plans to. And he said, “What!! That’s the kind of movie you dream about!” I’ve never forgotten about that. What sad dreams…
December 20th, 2007 at 11:37 am
peter, you bring up a good point about video games continuously attracting the bottom of the barrel production teams. While i am one of the few who enjoyed the resident evil series, there has yet to be a game adaptation that is taken seriously. Tron is legendary, but i cant think of much else. Video games do seem doomed from the beginning, and i have no idea why this is so.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Most video games these days are cinema waiting to happen. Game designers used to take the majority of their creative strength from films (think the Grand Theft Auto series), but now they don’t need to; their narratives are undeniably more fresh, exciting and original then any summer tentpole film.
It would appear that over time as films became progressively worse and games just the opposite the tables were turned. Cineastes need to now take their creative strength from the well of their competitor.
December 21st, 2007 at 2:48 am
Dwight Little is still better than the last guy who was supposed to direct, some director of Bernie Mac or Cedric The Entertainer masterpieces, what’s his name Charles Stone III?
December 29th, 2007 at 9:56 pm
TEKKEN MOVIE IS GOING TO SUCK.
Dwight Little to direct the Tekken movie,no way this is going to be
another video game movie problem and this Dwight Little guy should leave the project and Crystal Sky are a butch of idiots and Alan McElroy made the script and cheesy and I’m not happy with this news.
Other VG movie news the plot for the Onimusha movie is not true and Christophe Gans and the crew should rewrite the script and change the plot to follow the plotline from the original game Onimusha Warlords game.
Onimusha movie plot will follow to the first game and the film will have the cast and crew will be Japanese and Chinese.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.