King of Fighters live action movie coming

Double Edge Signs King Of Fighters Movie Deal
Asian film company Double Edge Entertainment has announced the acquisition of the rights to a film based on SNK Playmore's King Of Fighters game franchise, with Hong Kong director Gordon Chan (Fist Of Legend, Beast Cops) also attached.

According to a Variety Asia Online story on the deal, the feature will be produced by Axis Entertainment's Joseph Chou and Tim Kwok of LA's Convergence Entertainment. "Fearless" scripter Chris Chow will be the writer, and Japanese firm Micott & Basara and sales agent Arclight/Easternlight are co-producers.

The first game in the King Of Fighters series was released in 1994 for the Neo Geo arcade and home system, and it's gone on to become one of the most well-known 2D (and sometimes 3D) fighting game franchises, with multiple iterations for arcade and home consoles.

As for the company financing it, Double Edge Entertainment was founded in 2002 and finances, produces & distributes feature films with offices in Hollywood and Taipei. Double Entertainment shareholders include Taiwan electronics giant BenQ, plus two of Asia’s leading financial venture capital groups at Chinatrust Bank & Taishin Bank.[/quote

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Hakkai said:

Wasn't there already a thread on this? But it sounds interesting, can't say much other than that.

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jeff bogard said:

There was but not with these details.

the other thread only confirmed that there was gonna be a KOF movie and that it was announced in Cannes.

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apparently it was just announced at Cannes. to be directed by Hong Kong director Gordon Chan (Fist Of Legend) and executive production will be handled by Axis Entertainment which is headed by Joseph Chou. script/screenplay duties going to Chris Chou.

no other information was forthcoming other than the first glimpse of this movie will be available in 2008. oh and it'll be an english language movie.

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DevilRedeemed said:

not so


first post in the other thread:


doesn't matter at all though. carry on.

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ulasamosa said:

Super Mario Bros the movie was awesome so this will be too...

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Cernex said:

Explain "House of the Dead", then.

El Cernex

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aegreatone said:

what i dont get is... why do comic, cartoon, video games like "KOF" and such...why do they automatically wanna do a live action movie? It be better imo to do it anime.

guess most americans dont like anime or cgi type shit.

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