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Movie Based on 'Tekken' Video Game Is a Go

by Evan Shamoon on December 21, 2007 at 08:47 AM



In what can only be seen as yet another indication that most Hollywood execs have never so much as been in the same room as a video game (let alone played one), a film based on Namco's Tekken franchise appears to be taking flight.

Variety is reporting that the film will be directed by Dwight Little -- he of 'Murder at 1600' and Steven Segal's 'Marked For Death' fame. He was also apparently the director of 'Ground Zero Texas' (the 1993 full-motion video Sega CD game), so consider him on the video game ball. The Tekken ball officially starts rolling (downhill) on February 4, 2008, and is apparently about "a rebel who rises up against the Tekken Corp. to seize freedom for his people."

Little's last movie was 'Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid,' and Tekken has all the narrative girth of a tuna fish sandwich. If this is anything resembling watchable, we'll eat our hats.

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