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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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!!!!!!!!!
if you live in hk then you would have heard of bernice liu
that said they are ruining another childhood memory of mine
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
Ugh, bad feeling in my stomach.
Oh Satan bring me to Hell because I rather go there than watching that shit in this world!
I'll watch it if they get Jean-Claude Van Damme to be portray Rugal.
I want one that actually works please T_T
my gawd, not another one...
Motherfucker, imma loli bomb hollywood right now!!!!
What a waste of lolis...
Why does Hollywood keep doing this? STOP IT AMERICA!
Damn you, Hollywood and your cooperate shit!
insert facepalm here~
i saw this a couple days ago, oh & KYO IS WHITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No. Just NO.
why does that top pic remind me of Zoolander so much?
maybe just like dragonball, etc. people (fans and not) will only watch it to make fun of it!!!
David Carradine has died in vain.
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).
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?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
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.
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.
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!!!??
Tom Bergeron as Rugal?
no, no, no...Anwar ibrahim should be Rugal. he's an evil muthafucka.
R.I.P. King Of Fighters. I knew Thee Well.
i prefer 2d thank you.
srlsy hollywood =_=
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!
One by one Hollywood is determined to rape every good game franchise they get their hands on. :sadface: =( ;_; :sadface:
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.
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.
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
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!