Dwight Little To Direct Tekken Movie!

By Jack December 20, 2007 12:12 PM

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We last made mention of a Tekken movie back in August of '04 and boy did you guys go crazy with your cast ideas! Now news reaches us via Variety that the popular PlayStation game is once again up for a cinematic treatment with director Dwight Little at the helm and a script written by Alan McElroy.

So, who is the good Dwight H. Little? You ask. Only the director responsible for cinematic masterpieces such as Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (yeah, the sequel), the Steven Seagal film Marked for Death and Murder at 1600! Oh yeah, you might remember Alan McElroy from as the scribe behind Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever and Left Behind: The Movie. Or you may just have never heard of him either.

"The film plays out as a science fiction story set in the near future, about a rebel who rises up against the Tekken Corp. to seize freedom for his people," says Little. "It's a gladiator story, but the videogame has a complicated enough storyline that it provides the template for a martial arts spectacular."

Filming begins in Shreveport, Louisiana in early February. The smell an Academy Award in the works. Forgive the sarcasm, but, thanks to the legacy of crap video game movies, we've lost hope. You can hold off judgment until we see a trailer if you'd like.

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