Hollywood Gets Hold of King of Fighters
- Categories: Games, News
- Date: Jun 13, 2009 11:47 JST
- Tags: Adaptations, Comparison, Hollywood, King of Fighters, Marketing, Video Gallery
Classic fighting game series King of Fighters is set to receive a grand Hollywood adaptation in the glorious tradition of Street Fighter and Dragonball.
The movie uses actors nobody has ever heard of, and in the best tradition of Hollywood dispenses with the game’s highly developed setting and atmosphere in favour of some story centring on mysterious multidimensional alien artefacts.
The extremely stylish 2D character designs are perhaps one of the major selling points of the series, so naturally Hollywood has discarded them. Their loss seems unlikely to be well received by fans, especially considering what they have been replaced with.
The movie is set for a 2010 release.
Via Inside Games.
Having run out of novels and comics to plunder, it seems Hollywood is increasingly turning to anime and games, though considering the scant resemblance their productions bear to the original it is a wonder they bother…
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yay another DOA, most likely as bad if not worse
og cos.another dragon ball also.
y hollywoof cannot accept they r purely western?cannot do something only japanese can do?
western otaku also not welcoming this and think that this is absolutely trash
Unfortunately, Hollywood cares more about making a profit than appealing to fans of whatever series they are adapting. They figure that if they make it something that appeals to a wider range of people that it'll make more a profit. Too bad that almost never it the case.
But by trying to make it appealing to a wider audience, they just end up making a movie that doesn't appeal to either normal people or the fans of the series being adapted.
the director is Chinese, so don't put all the blame on Hollywood.
its a hollywood production, i blame it on hollywood.
even if the director is chinese, what about the producers, cast!!, etc. 1 asian doesn't make it an asian film and it's chinese not even jap
the actors look like someone you can find on pron flicks
dun make same mistake like dbe
buag, do no want, maybe is similar to dragon ball the movie
It probably will be unfortunately :P
The costumes suck...and Vice looks sane :/.Kyo is fucking American and Mai has clothes on?AND IS A B-CUP?
DOA was ok cause it got hot babes like Jamie Pressly and Holly Valance. But KOF? Ugly women
Aww, don't be that cold.
Maybe, just maybe, it might turn out to be one hell of an epic movie.
You mean epic fail?
for sure XD
I heard Shiranui Mai character played by butter breast Maggie Q. What hell are they thinking?
You mean butter chest Maggie Q? I'll still hit her despite the fact.
maggie q as mai? wtf are they smokin she has nowhere near enough oppai for it
[NSFW Pic]
http://sites.google.com/site/skumora-page/_/rsrc/1211567966766/Home/maggie-q-nude/maggie-q.jpg
see for yourself
OH NO!!!
Mai,Sakura,Athena....
My Fav KOF girls....
T_T
They Are gonna look Fugly...
uh...sakura is street fighter dude.
my thought exactly....
agree darn it let the japanese make a movie out of it if we leave it to the americans they'll screw it up just like they did with DBZ and DOA and that van damme SF *barf*
Why the hell are they doing this? A lot of us KoF fans hate the idea... so who are they aiming this movie at?
a very small group of people who like to torture themselves by watching shitty movies.
A friend from college loves bad movies and finds them hilarious...this movie is made for him no doubt.
HOLY SHIT!!! They really made it! I thought it was in planning stage???@@@!!!! WTFF22111!!!
fack, those assholes is gonna ruin everything~!!!!!!!!!!!
Looks like a bad porn movie xD
Oh hell no.
NOOOOOOOOOOO.
I play KoF actively on GGPO so this is even worse for me.
WHY GOD, WHY DO YOU DO THIS.
if that picture is official is already a fail
+1
so True!! epic true!!
god save us all...
I don't need much convincing to see another Dragonball Evolution in the making.
Those costumes are ridiculous.
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No, this is not good at all Hollywood. You are always so ridiculous when you do that. Stop that.
Please...no more live action. Do not ruin my mind any further. The 2D should remain as 2D (with the exception of Transformer live action.)
Guys, i just realised... can't we just shitstorm Holliwood ourselves?
no, THATS when the will adapt it into something good. thats where they get us
What the Fuck is This Shit >:=0
Oh look,Nazis
LOL ray park is prolly the only one who did his own stunts and martial arts without a choreographer hell he prolly did the choreograph like he did for starwars
O' god! Another straight to video crappy B-movie!
ruined
lol and i thought sci-fi channel movie ideas were bad....
Well, some of their original movies are funny (Dragonsword). But other than that, I agree.
*pushes PLAY on the digital playback*
Tell me this is ~ *just* ~ not real… please! ~ hasn’t Hollywierd done enough damage?
*end of message*
thanks to hollywood
NOTHING is sacred any longer
I wanna blow up hollywood so bad for various reasons aside from this.
Nothing new. Hollywood will continue doing this until everything has been turned into a shitty movie.
Hollywood creates and destroys!!!
That guy could have been a good Rugal if they had given him the same hair and clothes as Rugal. However, they didn't. I am raging so hard.
not to mention he'll be the shortest guy in the cast. the whole thing about SNK bosses in general is their stature. they are tall, well built (aside from magaki) and forbodding. toad from the xmen movies is none of these things. I hope that playmore cuts the project before its too late.
What will happen to my Kula?!
No. Not another Hollywood fail.
きめぇぇ。。。。
your moonspeak is not welcome here, 2chan is where your "kimee" belongs.
MTZZPGHTRRRRYYYY!!!
I am not pleased right now. I know right away it's gonna suck donkey balls.
Hollywood wins again, much to the grief of fans.
That looked nothing like Rugal. The guy from Plissken Snake makes a way better Rugal.
Expect Terry Bogard as the main character instead of Kusanagi...
Wouldn't that be like...Fatal Fury...?
A live-action Fatal Fury Hollywood movie DOES have potential to be watchable.
King Of Fighters? Not so much.
More like Street Fighter in USA or Street Fighter The Movie..
kyo is still the main....he is just, you know, WHITE AND ADOPTED, so from the get go the story is royally effed.
...And Kyo will be in high school.
not again, oh well here it goes.....
..bluarghhs, aughhh, bluarghhhh
*writes a suicide note*
*click*
*BANG!?!?!?*
This isn't really happening right?
Why does Hollywood refuses to make real movies anymore?
All the real directors committed suicide when they realized this is where Hollywood was headed.
lol, wtf, Bernice Liu?
FK!!!!!!!!!!!!
Come one, why the owners of this games are still selling the rights to produce this kind of things!?
It's not like KoF has some kind of freaking aliens or something way to hard to make it real!
Dam......i just hope some day Hollywood dissapears(not literally) from the business.......
DAM!!! ISNT THERE A DECENT MOVIE WE CAN ENJOY!?!?!?!?!
Blood: The Last Vampire (live action) looks decent.
I'm actually looking forward to that one.
then be dawned with how crappy it is
I believe its about to hit theatres ...
So I guess ~ we wait for the reviews and critiques... and see what happens...
I am still curious though...
Why?
Money
Admit it.
You guys like this kind of crap.
I have a great idea, so sit down and open your mouths wide cause momma bird is flying in with a fat and juicy worm.
Rapelay: The Movie.
Not just that, man.
Rapelay: The Movie: The Game
Also,
Rapelay: The Movie: The Ride
Eat it up, guys.
Rapelay: The Movie: The Trading Card Game
Rapelay: The Movie: The Fast Food Restuarant Chain
Rapelay: The Movie: The Breakfast Cereal
WHY WHY
THE EMPEROR HAS ABANDONED US!!!!!
so.. there's Dragonball, there's Street Fighter, and now King of Fighters!?
...and PAC-MAN is next in the line.
Check youtube: a trailer is already out for pac-man. lol.
This is bull. Hollywood refused to make movies with Bruce Lee again and again back in the days because they didn't want to risk the box office on a Chinese...and now they so easily risk the box office on these stupid adaptations?
Dragonball Evolution worked because people were willing to pay to see how epically it FAILS, but I seriously doubt the same would happen again with a KOF adaptation...
They could've easily adapted The Orochi 97' saga.
WHY HOLLYWOOD,WHY.
king of FAIL got the KOF hohohoho!!
Epic...
This will be a total crap!!!
WHAT THE HELL!? No! Why must they sully Rugal's smoking hot secretaries like that!? NO!!! DAMMIT!
Seems Uwe Boll has long lost siblings in Hollywood.
Hollywood just took it to the next level, by using 3D pigs instead of well known actors, they might as well adopt every major anime known and turn it in to shit with shitty actors and replace decent plots with absolute shit plots
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO why hollywood, why can't you leave good things be.
wow! thats bernice liu. she's a famous hong kong actress. she's starred in quite a lot of tvb dramas. this is the first time i've seen her acting outside of HK
Is that 2nd pic real? Looks like some cheap porno cast.
Yes, the girl on the left was in mutant X (freaking show was I swear on 24/7)
I was laughing when I read the title and it got better from there.
Well, it's Hollywood and all, so can we blame the Jews?
Hitler was right.
Ok not only is the idea of a live-action movie based on my favorite fighting game series a bad idea. But the fact that they couldnt even keep the costumes is... beyond comprehension. So yeah, usually costumes in games are over the top so sometimes they need to be toned down to at least be taken seriously. But I mean WTF, almost all the costumes in KoF are grounded in reality and fairly normal. WHYYYYYY couldn't they keep them, I mean seriously WTF!
*rant off*
U-urgh. Every time I see those pictures, I feel discouraged. The way they made them look - they barely have even a shred of the original designs left on them. D8 It's a real shame!
I'm just glad that the New Faces Team isn't involved with the rest of the Orochi characters getting tossed through the wringer here. I dread to think of how they'd handle the three of them (both in terms of design and plot.)
STOP...FCKING...WITH....OUR...SHIT!
Godamnit hollywood...
they gotta be f-bleep-bleep-k-i-n-g out of their fbleepking mind
Another one bites the dust!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBuzODqOYo4
damn it. This looks like crap.
no, no, no, no, no, no
KOF is my favorite fighting video game series and seeing it being made it to some crap like that pisses me off
My childhood...
My eyes...
another fails ..
ahahaha
NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOO f*cking way!!!!!!
You have to be kidding
this is bullshit :'(
Augh! Look what they've done to Rugal! No!
David Carradine has died in vain.
maybe just like dragonball, etc. people (fans and not) will only watch it to make fun of it!!!
No. Just NO.
why does that top pic remind me of Zoolander so much?
o great another arcade favourite of mine is going to die to hollywoods disasters, I mean come on if they are going to do it right dress like them walk, fight like them jeez, if your going to add kyo were is his rival huh, i can already see the series of good arcade games and anime turn to a shit hole due of hollywoods 'wonderful' disasters.
Holy shit the woman they got for Mai has almost no bust (at least by Mai standards).
You know, the little focused pic on the "recent news" menu about this news is just awesome.
disclaimer: the fact that i didn't comment about the news itself is self-explanatory, isn't it ?
They failed on DOA and Street Fighter so what other popular fighting game they need to to fail besides Tekken? OH KOF!!! Nice Hollywood nice.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
This is not bullshit, it even worst. This is PIGSHIT!!!!
Stop wasting your money on this movie... Nobody want to watch this...
OH GAWD PLEASE NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
why cant they focus on something they are like thunder cats live action rather than doing something they always fail to do?
i saw this a couple days ago, oh & KYO IS WHITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People who know nothing about the game will still eat it up. Just like they ate up the horrible resident evil movies and ect.
That's the sad part. I wonder how many ate up that dragonball movie. The only movie that I thought was halfway decent was silent hill. All other movies that were based off a game was twisted horribly and done all wrong.
well it sure looks like another anime/game based movie thats gonna suck big time hollywood is just killing the series with this movies, and I recently heard that spielberg is makin a ghost in the shell 3D movie
if you live in hk then you would have heard of bernice liu
that said they are ruining another childhood memory of mine
Oh god, another game to movie onto the firing line.
Whats bad is that they never fit or feel like the game/anime/manga ect.
They should of opted for Animation instead. Imagine what you can do!
Though, the Resident Evil films ain't that bad... 'cept the third one which I thought lacked quite a few things...
That's it. its the beginning of the end. Hollywood is ruining all the good stuff. D:
GEEEEEEEESE!!!!!!!!!
Ugh, bad feeling in my stomach.
Oh Satan bring me to Hell because I rather go there than watching that shit in this world!
Why does Hollywood keep doing this? STOP IT AMERICA!
Damn you, Hollywood and your cooperate shit!
insert facepalm here~
Motherfucker, imma loli bomb hollywood right now!!!!
What a waste of lolis...
my gawd, not another one...
I'll watch it if they get Jean-Claude Van Damme to be portray Rugal.
I want one that actually works please T_T
Cant unsee...
Cant unread...
Cant unheard....
I'm screwed.
I wonder when they will make a live action for metal gear solid... I can hardly wait.
Can they top the Dead or Alive movie, where the tragic (for Dead or Alive, anyway) character Helena, an opera singer on the hunt for her mother's assassin, became a rollerblading valley girl? Place your bets, folks!
I'm gonna track this, if this title sucks i'ma boycott the upcoming FMP adaptation
At least It can't be worse than the Mortal Kombat movies......right?....at least I can hope so.
Fuck off,the MK movie is overall considered to be the only good videogame adaptation ever made.
THERE NEVER WAS A MORTAL KOMBAT ANNIHILATION
With all due respect, are you really JUST hearing about this? It's been pretty well-known for at least a year, seeing how the movie is currently in post-production, but, uh, congrats for finally seeing this?
I was sort of curious about that too. It does seem awfully late in the game to be hearing about it. But then, many of the people on the site seem to have been just catching wind of it as well... so perhaps they simply weren't paying attention to those things?
I don't think this movie is meant for the american or japanese audience.
I think the studio expects to make money in other areas like Korean, China or any other country with low standards.
EPIC FAIL -___________________-
kof could of been an awesome anime too, too bad that was a failure too.
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why does Hollywood want to make movies that are either Japanese games or anime?
Are they trying to destroy the fandom by making a film that is lower than total failure, is this Hollywood's answer to gain attention of an audience, by disupting and destroying a fandom so by "hijacking" anime or Japanese video game?
Such a shame that such directing and martial arts talent gets wasted on this crap.
I can already tell it is going to be horrible based on the picture of the actors.
holy dbz.... rugal looks like a pimp
I wonder why Bernice Liu would even be in a film like this.
why god why i loved kof i have damn there all the game on my computer why have u forsaken me! its not too late to smite them lord!!!!!!!!!!!!! also western otaku who are readings this lets protest this damn wretched movie!!!!!
Kyo would go "82 Shiki: Hollywood Homicide!"
R.I.P. King Of Fighters. I knew Thee Well.
Tom Bergeron as Rugal?
no, no, no...Anwar ibrahim should be Rugal. he's an evil muthafucka.
oh nooo T_T
I swear to god I don't give a flying fuck if this movie sucks balls I want to see this fucking movie! This is a dream come true for me for I have never thought KOF would be made into a movie let alone be made by Hollywood. I'm really excited for all of this!
is this spposed to be a sarcasm ?
WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!??
i prefer 2d thank you.
srlsy hollywood =_=
Please. anything but this.
ANYTHING! BUT NO KING OF FIGHTERS!
What have we done to deserve this!? Why SNK! WHAT DID WE DO!!!!!!
WHYYYY????? NOT SNK!!! WHY WHY WHY WHY!???!!!? NOT KOF! Geese, hollywood, are you insane? only hardcore nerds like KOF, heck you have to be a nerd to have herd of KOF. Nerds, such as myself, do not approve of this and will not watch this crappy movie. I was in a good mood today, too. damn it, I sure hope this is a troll, I admit I am pretty RAGED right now.
I cried a bit.
One by one Hollywood is determined to rape every good game franchise they get their hands on. :sadface: =( ;_; :sadface:
Jeezzz!! all bulk of you have to comes back when you grow up (like Kasumi Tendo said, LOL) is just market, you buy it or not, stop crying like a little puppy barking, it is my favourite VIDEO GAME franchise too but the games never have been considered a Literature Nobel Prize by it script and many KOF or SF characters where based on earlier movies, real person, actors (actress): Steven Segal, Robert Garcia, M. Bison(Balrog) Mike Tyson, Zangief a real wrestler i dont remember, Orochi saga, a legend from Japan, first DBall, The monkey King Chinese Legend, King, Cinthia Rothrock, Hon Fu, Jackie Chan, Choi Bounge, Freddy Krueger, etc. So dont get so serious, is just for fun ,if you are pissed off you are gettin too much serious.
This will be a great hit...wouldn't you guys agree? grrrrr!