Tekken the Movie … Why?

// February 19th, 2010 // Gaming, Movies

I don’t get it. Has Hollywood not learned from past failures in this genre that video game movie adaptations (VGMA) are a losing battle? I think the producers automatically think of the movies that did good like Lara Croft or Mortal Combat but those movies are few and far between. They forget about train wrecks like Double Dragon, Super Mario Brothers, and Doom.

For the fighting game genre of VGMA there are even fewer movies that made any money. The last one to come out was Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li which grossed a tiny $8Million in the box office. DOA:Dead or Alive was even smaller with $480K. My speculation is the movie studios know they can cast no name actors cheap for these types of movies and they have a built-in audience from the video games. The problem is the audience will only take so much of these piss poor representations of their beloved video games before they won’t go at all.

I for one will probably skip Tekken when it comes out. I wasn’t much of a fan of the video game. I was more into Street Fighter and Virtua Fighter growing up. If Tekken sounds good to you, check out the trailer below:

Here are some more preview articles for Tekken: io9 firstshowing

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  • The process of adapting games to movies has been just so bad for Hollywood. Doom was such a complete disaster. The only adaptation I saw that was even remotely good was HITMAN, but you've to admit that movie was easy to render generic. I can't see how this is going to turn out good for the studio... I’d say instant money loser from the date they start filming; if not before.

    Good post.

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    LEHenryJr.
  • I don't think movie studios will ever learn from their mistakes. It takes a singular vision from all parties (from producers, directors, cast,etc) to make a quality movie regardless of the content. Instead they always go for the quick buck instead of the hard (more profitable) buck.
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