The King of Fighters Movie Will Be Silly, Bad, or Both

Can you say TANG, 
WHY does it always seem to be be white guy playing the lead roles of these Video Game -> Movie Productions
I'm not a racist but....Really why do they do that??
EDIT: Terry Bogard needs to wear the hat or else there is no hope for this movie.

And with this... I lose more faith in humanity's ability to make ANY kind of sense.

OOOOH!! Cannibalize a game's story so that the movie plays to all audiences!! No one's EVER THOUGHT OF THAT BEFORE!! This movie will be a total success. -_-

That's one hell of an awful clip. But it really doesn't come as a surprise. I still don't know why producers want to drown their money by making such pathetic adaptations of fighting games. 

That 3 mins of vid left a bad taste in my mouth...ack!

Hmmm.. Maggie Q as Mai? maaaaaaaaybe I'll check the movie out... she is pretty hot.

Looking forward to seeing this on TANG!

The only things that matter in a movie like this is the cast and the choreography. The rest can suck as much balls as it wants to, but if the fights promise to be awesome I'm in.

See Tekken.

Capoeira guy from Tom yum goong, bald parkour dude from Banlieue 13, Shang Tsung, Gary Daniels, Cung Lee, ball-waving schoolgirl from Kill Bill, freaky albino dude from Hellboy II, and the girl who once played Girl #1 in The Bold and the Beautiful. How can this not be fantastic?

I want GB to have its own setup for fighting game characters where you actually get to select profiles of characters like it was a character selection screen in-game.

Then: achieve Nirvana.

I'll bet it's worse than the anime based on it. Also Terry won't be in it for some reason.

I appreciate the serious attitudes about the dificultly of making a game based movie. But I won't be suprised if it fails.

a ok.

This movie should have been animated....

It's funny that they're still thinking about releasing this and haven't yet cancelled it after seeing Street Fighter: Legend of Chun Li flop miserably....

I wonder if Mr Big makes an appearance?

Is there any reason why Iori had BLACK hair? Like, not even a red highlight in there. Lame.

if is doesn't have terry bogard and joe hagashi no thank you.

I hate to be "that guy", but the whole Orochi saga is actually about three artifacts, so, at least they're on track there.

And another "that guy" comment: if you think KOF is a second-rate fighting game, you don't know jack about fighting games.

Yeah, I said it.

What the FUCK man?! I thought SN fucking K would be the last video game company to have Hollywood do a King of Fighters movie.

I want to hear someone scream "BUSTAH, WOOOOOLF!!!" at least once.

if this movie doesn't have Terry Bogard in it then it's was pointless to even make it, because introducing him could lead into a fatal fury movie since Mai is already in this

At least we'll get more TANG content.

They're wasting their time.

Looks like the KoF movie will be following the Street Fighter movie formula: focus on ANYone but the actual protagonists of the game (in this case Kyo and Iori)

Will this be better then that legend of Chun-Li thing ?  .

I think a fighting game film could work, in theory. It's been a while since I watched MK, but i seem to recal enjoying it - that could be a misslead youth thing though. DOA was good for perves and giggles...

There's nothing better then a well correographed fitghing scene between skilled fighters. Sadly I'm sure this film will lack both of those elements.

I don't get why, if they are set on making a movie on a fighting game, they don't just copy the shit out of Bloodsport. There is a fighting tournament and Jean-Claude Van Damne wants to win it so he does a split and punches some guy in the balls.

Roll credits. Done.

What I don't understand is why they keep making movie's of fighting games? They don't really have the deepest stories.

better make an anime, this will be crap.

I fully expect this to be on the same level as the recent Street Fighter movie, both in terms of tanking at the box office and having universal critical disdain. STOP MAKING MOVIES BASED ON FIGHTING GAMES! (or all games really, as TANG has proven)

WHY DOES EVERYONE SEEM TO WANT TO MAKE A JAPANESE ARCADE FIGHTING GAME INTO A MOVIE?! NONE HAVE WORKED SO FAR! JUST QUIT HOLLYWOOD!

I think the story of the games revolve around a fighting tournament or something? I don't know. Maybe I'm confusing it with every other fighting game ever made.
This movie should not be happening.

Awesome, another crappy video game movie.

wow these comments have been way more positive then I expected...

omg, noooooo. This is not good, seeing Vice & Mature just the kiss of death for me. Also Shizuru & Iori was like big no for me. They can even make a good KoF Anime, this movie as no hope to be any good.

Bring on the sequel!

Lol cool, Bernice Liu who's playing Vice is one of the more popular Hong Kong actresses in the TVB drama shows.

can't wait for this movie to come out!!!  its gonna be awesome. its going to be waaay better than the DOA movie, or even SF:the Legen of Chun-Li

Why?

might be cool, looks very stunt heavy and thats always a plus. 

I am one of the few that liked Legend of Chun--Li, but I don't know if a King of Fighters movie will work.

Awesome!!! Can't Wait!!!

Oh, and BTW Mace: The Dark age coming soon to a cinema near you folks!!!

Ok, while I am not too familiar with the KOF series, this looks like it is going to be horrible.  The premise sounds stupid, the producers are taking it way too seriously, and the actors look like d-bags.  Any time you try to apply a story to something that is devoid of one in the first place it is doomed to failure.  Watching that clip actually pissed me off a bit because of how idiotic it looks.  Ok, I feel better now. =)

What gives me hope here is they seem to be taking everything way too seriously so it could turn into a b movie classic.

The lady who is playing Mature had the best description possible, "we have moves that work together and we fight everybody". 

I really didn't think King of Fighters was that well-known outside of the gaming world to warrant a movie.  I was also unaware there was a story to any of it.

Prediction:  This won't be "more than just a videogame movie."  It'll probably just be a newer, more obscure Mortal Kombat Annihilation.  If it's that unintentionally funny, I may want to see it.

Who knows if it will be good or not, Fighting games into movies are probably the hardest to pull off.

A lot of fight games on the big screen lately, where's the Tekken one?