Games to Movies =D

Again I'm in the mood to post about movies!
This time, let's check out about movies which are inspired from games.
Here are a list of movies which will be released in the 1st half of the year:


 Tekken

Starring :
Jon Foo as Jin Kazama
Ian Anthony Dale as Kazuya Mishima
Hiroyuki Tagawa as Heihachi Mishima
Kelly Overton as Christie Monteiro
Luke Goss as Steve Fox
Cung Le as Marshall Law
Gary Daniels as Bryan Fury
Candice Hillebrand as Nina Williams
Marian Zapico as Anna Williams
Darrin Dewitt Henson as Raven
Nathan Jones as Craig Marduk
Lateef Crowder as Eddy Gordo
Naomi Tomita as Jun Kazama
Gary Ray Stearns as Yoshimitsu
Anton Kasabov as Sergei Dragunov
Roger Huerta as Miguel Caballero Rojo
Mircea Monroe as Kara
Jae Hee as Hwoarang

A high-octane action movie about a young man who wants to seek revenge for his mother's death. He finds his grand-father, Heihachi Mishima, and pleas to be trained. When the Mishima leader announces a "King of Iron Fist" tournament. He finds out that his mother's killer, Ogre, will be participating in the tournament. He must fight against the worlds top competitors to achieve his goal with no interference.

This movie is expected to be released by May 2010.
It seems that this movie was already released in U.S. since November 2009 and will be released in Japan by early of March this year. I wonder why it takes so long for Tekken to premiere in Malaysia for so long *sighs*
I just hope they don't use so much time to do the censoring work and all, otherwise, it would be so so dissapointing for us.

A little history for you guys.. This game has been very popular since it's first release in the year 1994. Until today, the developer, Namco has already made it's 6th series with it's latest known as Tekken 6 : Bloodline Rebellion in 2008.
My favourites are King (he isn't this movie,sob), Yoshimitsu, Hwoarang and Eddy!!
But I'm a retiree, lost interest in Tekken because I couldn't catch up *embarassed*

Rumour has it that Jackie Chan will be starring in this movie as...

Lei Wulong!

They do have resemblance, but I prefer Lei to be in his original outfit.. *dissapointed*

Here's another shocking awe..

Cung Le as Marshall Law?
I don't even think this is quite right, the body is alright, but not the looks!

Craig Marduk will be hard to impersonate because he is over-sized and over-muscular. Nathan Jones just don't look..big *smile*

Prince Of Persia : The Sands Of Time

Starring:
Jake Gyllenhaal as Prince Dastan
Gemma Arterton as Princess Tamina
Ben Kingsley as Nizam


Set in medieval Persia, the story of an adventurous prince who teams up with a rival princess to stop an angry ruler from unleashing a sandstorm that could destroy the world. Which is why after the prince was tricked by a dying Vizier to unleash the Sands of Time that turns out to destroy a kingdom and transforms its populace into ferocious demons. In his effort to save his own kingdom and redeem his fatal mistake, it's up to the prince and the princess to return the sands to the hourglass by using the Dagger of Time, which also gives him a limited control over the flow of time.


Movie distributed by Walt Disney Studios, they must have laid high interest in this *laughs*
Set to release on the 27th May in Malaysia, I bet this movie will be a big blockbuster!
Popularly known in the game for the cool acrobatic moves, I hope that all the moves will be able to be implemented into the movie. I just can't wait for its release! Gotta love Walt Disney!! *high*


Check out the shots:

And here's the video, nice~

The King Of Fighters

Starring:
Sean Faris as Kyo Kusanagi
Maggie Q as Mai Shiranui
Will Yun Lee as Iori Yagami
Ray Park as Rugal Bernstein 
Françoise Yip as Chizuru Kagura
Hiro Kanagawa as Saisyu Kusanagi
David Leitch as Terry Bogard
Sam Hargrave as Ryo Sakazaki
Monique Ganderton as Mature
Bernice Liu as Vice

A stylish, high-octane, live action feature based on the highly successful video game franchise, in which the last surviving descendants of three legendary clans are continuously transported to other dimensions to test their martial arts skills against an evil force that seeks to invade and infect the real world.

This movie will be released on the 10th June 2010. Somehow or rather, I feel that this is just going to be almost the same as Tekken. After all, both are from the same genre. There is well known actresses in this movie though, that made the difference. Maggie Q and Hong Kong celebrity, Bernice Liu will be in. I was shocked to find out that a Hong Kong TVB actress would be in just because she likes the game,lo.. *jaw drop*


Anyway, I'm not a great fan of King of Fighters, too bad. However, this is well known in the gaming world, so many series has been released since 1994. Amounting up till now, there is up to 29 games in total, and this excludes others games related to this game *surprised*

Most of the images I fetched are Maggie Q, can't deny that she's famous..

  

I couldn't find any official trailer yet, either it was not released yet or I didn't put enough effort to search. What I managed to find is only part of a movie preview and interview, go take a 'peek' *smile*

This covers up films based on video games for the 1st half of the year, people!
There's still many more upcoming movies based on video games for the 2nd half, go surf it up!
For some that I know are :

  i) Left For Dead
 ii) Mortal Kombat : Devastation
iii) God Of War

Cherio!!