I think what makes most video game-based movies suck is that it's difficult to convert the game's story-line into a movie and the fact that the actors probably aren't all that familiar with the character they're portraying.
The 'Tekken' movie's theatrical release was post-poned to 2006. And here's the current cast list:
Heihachi- Cary Hiroyuki-Tagawa (played Shang-Tsung in Mortal Kombat)
Kazuya- Russell Wong
Jun- Fann Wong
Jin- Takeshi Kaneshiro
Lee- Byron Mann (played Ryu in Street Fighter)
Baek- Ho Sung Pak
Hwoarang- Rick Yune (played Johnny in The Fast and the Furious)
Marshal Law- Jet Li
Lei Wulong- Jackie Chan
King- The Rock
Eddy Gordo- Esai Morales ( Lt. Rodriguez from NYPD Blue)
Paul Pheonix- Christian Kane
Marduk- Nathan Jones
Xiaoyu- Vicky Zhao
Bruce- Brain J. White
Michelle- Rosalyn Sanchez
Nina- Charlize Theron
Anna- Sarah Michelle-Gellar
Wang- Chia Hui Liu
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Last edited by Darth Callous on Dec 9th, 2005 at 08:48 AM
That's a good point, maybe they're saving them for Tekken 2? Yoshimitsu was a wierd mother-lover and he sucked, so I really don't care is he's not in the movie.
There is absolutely no way they can do all of those characters any sort of justice in one movie. That's well over twice the number of fighters that were featured in the Mortal Kombat movie, and they still didn't have time to develop Scorpian or Sub-Zero at all. This has "train wreck" written all over it.
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Last edited by Gregory on Dec 13th, 2005 at 11:37 PM
Different sorts of movies. Action/martial arts movies don't have as much time for character development, because a lot of the movie is taken up with the action and martial arts, and unlike, say comedies--where you can develop characters and tell jokes at the same time--it's difficult to use the time characters spend kicking the shit out of each other to build them up in any meaningful way (which is why movies like this usually have such small casts; of the last few action movies I've watched, Blackmask had three good guys and two bad guys, Speed had three good guys and one bad guy, Batman Begins had four good guys and three bad guys, Die Hard had three and one, Terminator two and one, Termanator 2 three and one, Enter the Dragon three and one)
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Last edited by Gregory on Dec 24th, 2005 at 07:40 PM
Thats right, homes. In comedies you can get away with that kind of shit, especially slap-stick no-brainers such as "Be Cool" and "Austin Powers". But in serious movies and action flicks that kinda shit just doesn't fly, ese. It detracts from the point and makes the movie look dumb.
....but then again, the X-men movies have large casts, so maybe it'll work for Tekken, ey?
Who knows? The director said that "Both Jet Li and Jackie Chan have been loosely attached to the film but were now thinking of starting clean. It will have plenty of "A" list actors," so I suppose it isn't total fantasy. But I have trouble believing they're going to give a man who's only directed five movies--none of them particularly well known--the budget he'd need to pull that cast together.
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That's what I though when I first saw it, cuz it has alotta big names for a video game-based movie. It makes sense if you consider that Tekken is a long running, well established series, and if you look at some of the cast-members the part is right up their alley. So yeah, dawg, its the current official cast list. So if nobody pulls out, or some other kinda shit happens, then thats who's gon' be in the movie.
Naw'm sayin'?
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