First look at characters in ‘King of Fighters’ movie

If you wanna hear what the director and producer have to say about the movie plus action from the set and photos of Bernice Lu, check out http://www.movieset.com/king-of-fighters The director/producer seem to be aware of the importance of staying true to the lore of the game but we'll have to see how it turns out.

Why don't they get an Asian to act as spiderman main lead.

Cutting costs hmmmmmmm. It's would be better if they hire Bollywood characters. Just imagine Kyo Kusanagi ultimate is 'worm wave' instead of 'serpent wave'. I would recommed those trash hongkie to stop directing those good anime/video game movie.

The casts sxxks. Come on a white guy playing an Asian role. What is this?
Why don't they get nigger to act as Iori. Doesn't it sound nicer.

things we use to like, we don't like anymore? that's not true. you certainly have your own ideas of what the audience think. the biggest craft film makers know, is to get a point across... even if it offends some people. who said mistakes in movies are ok? for a regular viewer, if there is something wrong, they'll yap about it. everyone is a critic. watch people give their reviews on movies of today, they're not as blind as you think.

game based movies don't get good deals? dude you're so wrong. SF: the legend of chun li, 50 million to make. how much they make back? barely 5 mil. the last i checked, they made about 8 mil. 50 mil is a heck of a lot of money, and i would say thats about good enough to make a decent film, its just that who ever is taking on the project don't know jack about the game. here they have the opportunity to dig deep into the game, and bring out whats going to work, but they don't do that. their imagination is in another world. its just bad taste from the director, to the producer, to the writers. look at kung fu classics like drunken master, i'm sure it didn't take 50 mil to make, and it was a hit.

oh i understand you, i just don't really care to read on, it just sounds like a load of bull, nonsense.

HEY DUDE,

just came back from my trip and saw this, look i did not even mentioned the budget of the movie, i only talked about how mistakes are hidden by the glam sham of hollywood. and u said the biggest craft a filmmaker knows is to get his point across. well yeah its one of the craft, but the one i mentioned is in more use these days i think. Michael bay's, Transformers 2...??

and than u said mistakes are not ok in a movie, true... they are not and the viewers do yep about it, but still at the end of the day they go to their cinemas and watch a movie and help the same movie earn 200.1 mil. in a week. Michael bay's, Transformers 2...??

and you also mentioned street fighter. Look, it was made for 50 mil. i know a good director would do magic with this amount.... but thats my whole POINT!!

other movies! with worst directors! make better money compared to SF because they are fitted with angelina jolies body or blinding CGI or mountain dew ad campaign!

and if u ask me 50 mil. is nothing for a movie production these days. in the times like this movies like "Ratatouille" get a deal of 150 mil, 3 times more than what u think is good enough to turn today's audiences attention towards SF or any other game based movie.

and moreover on your art and craft capabilities of today's directors:
go and check the list of the most expensive movies ever made, all of them are either sequels of their previous low budget hits or based on a novel/comic or animations. there are no game based movies, no original concepts!

i think the only movie in that list that has an original concept, human actors(not voice over for animations) and decent box office return at the same time is hancock. Correct me if i am wrong though. and yeah dont tell me evan almighty, cuz its a sequel to a much much cheaper bruce almighty, that was a bigger hit.

so it only tells you my friend that directors of today are just puppets and studios would pay any amount to that puppet director to make a move on a novel/comic/sequel but they wont even pay half of that amount for a game based movie.

and u also mentioned movies drunken master, dude stop comparing apples with oranges and come to hollywood, where games based movies with their RELATIVELY! low budgets are pitted against novel based movies that are for more superior in boob quality, cgi quality, constume quality and everything else.

wake up bro, this is the world where a guy would get up and rant at a movie in post production(KOF) on the internet and than plan to see a movie like tranformers 2 in the evening which is filled with plot holes, stupid acting, unoriginal items like the twins. but hey! megan fox is there, cool epic battle is there. yea right!

take care man, i know we have differences but i never called your post a load of bull, nonsense so chill out bro... peace

HEY DUDE,

just came back from my trip and saw this, look i did not even mentioned the budget of the movie, i only talked about how mistakes are hidden by the glam sham of hollywood. and u said the biggest craft a filmmaker knows is to get his point across. well yeah its one of the craft, but the one i mentioned is in more use these days i think. Michael bay's, Transformers 2...??

and than u said mistakes are not ok in a movie, true... they are not and the viewers do yep about it, but still at the end of the day they go to their cinemas and watch a movie and help the same movie earn 200.1 mil. in a week. Michael bay's, Transformers 2...??

and you also mentioned street fighter. Look, it was made for 50 mil. i know a good director would do magic with this amount.... but thats my whole POINT!!

other movies! with worst directors! make better money compared to SF because they are fitted with angelina jolies body or blinding CGI or mountain dew ad campaign!

and if u ask me 50 mil. is nothing for a movie production these days. in the times like this movies like "Ratatouille" get a deal of 150 mil, 3 times more than what u think is good enough to turn today's audiences attention towards SF or any other game based movie.

and moreover on your art and craft capabilities of today's directors:
go and check the list of the most expensive movies ever made, all of them are either sequels of their previous low budget hits or based on a novel/comic or animations. there are no game based movies, no original concepts!

i think the only movie in that list that has an original concept, human actors(not voice over for animations) and decent box office return at the same time is hancock. Correct me if i am wrong though. and yeah dont tell me evan almighty, cuz its a sequel to a much much cheaper bruce almighty, that was a bigger hit.

so it only tells you my friend that directors of today are just puppets and studios would pay any amount to that puppet director to make a move on a novel/comic/sequel but they wont even pay half of that amount for a game based movie.

and u also mentioned movies drunken master, dude stop comparing apples with oranges and come to hollywood, where games based movies with their RELATIVELY! low budgets are pitted against novel based movies that are for more superior in boob quality, cgi quality, constume quality and everything else.

wake up bro, this is the world where a guy would get up and rant at a movie in post production(KOF) on the internet and than plan to see a movie like tranformers 2 in the evening which is filled with plot holes, stupid acting, unoriginal items like the twins. but hey! megan fox is there, cool epic battle is there. yea right!

take care man, i know we have differences but i never called your post a load of bull, nonsense so chill out bro... peace

with full respect to the previous post, if my post was not clear enough for you, than let me explain again. Yes, times have changed that is exactly my point and things we used to like, we dont like anymore as i gave the example of Titanic. and the people in the movie business sure know their craft. and the biggest craft they know is to make an idiot out of you. my post was meant to tell everyone that the perception today's movie has created in our mind is that mistakes are ok as long as angelia jolie is nude, but just because big budgeted movies are on comic's side, all the audience is blind with the glam sham of money. Plus, from the very beginning i made it clear that i am not supporting Gordan Chan's KOF. i know its a disaster in the making, but some of the reason that Game based movies do not get a good deal is because no one wants to see it and they are more skeptical about it than anything else given to them. Anyways i dont expect someone like you to understand this and that is exactly my point.

Thank you

times changed. everything is more high-tech now. people who want to be in the movie business know their craft, and it doesn't take a idiot to figure out if a movie is gonna flop. this ain't the 70s or 80s anymore son. everything is high-tech, high expectations. there is no flying cars yet, but you get the point... lol.

hollywood hasn't done justice to any video game adaptations, so this KOF film is more of a slap in the face, to the fans, and to the original creators. look at dragonball evolution, again, a slap in the face.

i hope its a low ass budget film, that doesn't even get shown in theaters. i ain't excited. i know if the japanese animators really wanted, they do their own KOF movie... and not only it would make more money, it would make history, and be remembered.

i think gordon chan's version of KOF is gonna suck. look at the Avenging Fist, a chinese film, a tekken adaptation pretty much, and it was one of the worse movie i have ever seen. whats really sad, is that sammo and biao is in it.

Hi everyone,

well, i have read a lot of comments for this upcoming movie and of course they are the worst comments that i have ever seen for a movie in post production. maybe the audiences have become far more intelligent than their predecessors. But i want to ask, is it really the intelligence that has increased or is it the skepticism. i mean how can we forget about the days when hollywood used to throw crap at us in any form and we would swallow it down more easily than a tasty dessert, if you ask me, if legendary movies like Titanic and Terminator 2 were to be released in present times, i seriously doubt that they would ever be able to catch up with the trend. today's audience is more skeptical and critical when it comes to defining logic behind a movie's story or a character's capabilities.

Now, i am not defending the cast choices or how the movie is turning out to be, but i will defend the fact that it is an adaptation and an adaptation always have to face this extra criticism. extra criticism of being able to live up to its origin's success. i have been following the KOF series since 1994, i still remember waiting in line to get my chance to play as Kyo kusanagi. So, fans like us are more devastated than anyone else after casting a 'white guy' as Kyo kusanagi. Anyways coming back to the point, its not bad to to criticize at all. but why are we so partial to game based movies, why are we not so critical when it come to comic based movies, i know they receive their fair share of criticism as well. but it never really hurts the movie, a comic based movie, in fact even a novel based movie would easily make enough money to pump a sequel out of it and then in their next try they might actually make something good (examples HULK and punisher).

This brings me to my question
Why do we 'believe' and/or 'accept' a comic and/or novel based movies more than game based movies. Just because we 'think' they are true to their origins or simply because they have more star power or big names to back them up. i want to give examples of such blunders thrown at us by hollywood and us audiences fairly, if not whole heartedly accepting them. And i would also compare them against KOF's blunders, in order to support "GAME BASED MOVIES" not gordon chan or even the whole movie in that matter.

Casting of Sean Faris as Kyo - how can we forget the casting of Michael C. Duncan as Kingpin in dare devil,a black guy as white guy. we swalloed that saying that at least he has the size of the guy, well sean faris may have the skill of the guy(kyo)

Actor's outfit look nothing like their Originals - Imagine Hugh jackman wearing a yellow tight suit with knee high blue leather boots, sounds more like a freak's sexual fantasy than a comic hero, so they changed it completely and we liked it, in fact he turned out to be the most popular among the others, than why the drama after a game character's outfit not being potrayed properly in a movie, which is more freakier sumtimes.

Maggie Q is "physically" not appropriate to play Mai - Turn this scenario upside down, do u think emma watson (hermoine granger) at the age of 19 looks 'physically' appropriate to play a role which was actually etched for a little girl in the novel, but we will accept it. in fact theres one already in the making for 2011 making her 21 at that time, but what can you expect from an audience who has not even seen a harry potter book in their lives. in fact the same people consider it to be nerdy to read one.

The plot is nothing like the original - how many of us even know that Wanted(2008) is based on a comic/novel and those who do, do they even know its plot. let me paste it as i have seen the pasted KOF's plot kicked around like a punctured football.

"The premise of Wanted is that all the world's super-villains decided to band together in 1986 and use their vast collective powers — including mad science, magic and mind-control to kill all the super heroes" now where does the seduction of angelina jolie that is shown throughout the movie comes in that plot, but u know why it was 'added' to the movie, because it sells, and original characters such as FUCKWIT and SHITHEAD were removed.(not joking those are the names of wanted comic's characters)

But we accepted it because more than half of us didnt even knew that it was there. than why do we worry about the likes choi and benimaru to make it to the KOF movie.

and there are so many other examples like this, as said earlier Titanic is 10 years old now who wants to see leonardo de caprio die while holding to kate winslet floating on wooden door, why are we not concerned that "cant he just swim to another nearby floating doors/platforms which can be seen clearly in the shot! and that reminded me how can someone like benjamin button even exist.
all i want to say here is that we are too skeptical about Game based movies, just because a big director is not supporting it, like peter jackson and christopher nolan with their adaptations of a previous movie and a comic respectively. it does not mean that we get more skeptical about game based movies. its my challenge to all the critics of game based movies.
Try putting johnny depp with parted hair as the 'white guy' for kyo, and buy lindy hemming who designed the costumes for dark knight, james bond and harry potter to design the costumes for the characters. than cast lucy liu for mai, as she can play a charlie's angels who are supposed to be american and well-endowed than why not KOF. and than fill the plot with more star power, special effects, mindless lines and loud sounds so that no would understand what actually happened with the story and come out as a satisfied movie goer. and i challenge all the critics of the games based movies, that the same movie with the same inappropriate casting, unmatched storyline, non-original costumes and small breasted women will make it to the taurus, cannes and even oscars.

so in my belief the audience have not gotten any more intelligent, they have just changed their ways of looking at things and might have even gotten dumber.

Thank you for reading if u have read it so far. and take care.

Hi everyone,

well, i have read a lot of comments for this upcoming movie and of course they are the worst comments that i have ever seen for a movie in post production. maybe the audiences have become far more intelligent than their predecessors. But i want to ask, is it really the intelligence that has increased or is it the skepticism. i mean how can we forget about the days when hollywood used to throw crap at us in any form and we would swallow it down more easily than a tasty dessert, if you ask me, if legendary movies like Titanic and Terminator 2 were to be released in present times, i seriously doubt that they would ever be able to catch up with the trend. today's audience is more skeptical and critical when it comes to defining logic behind a movie's story or a character's capabilities.

Now, i am not defending the cast choices or how the movie is turning out to be, but i will defend the fact that it is an adaptation and an adaptation always have to face this extra criticism. extra criticism of being able to live up to its origin's success. i have been following the KOF series since 1994, i still remember waiting in line to get my chance to play as Kyo kusanagi. So, fans like us are more devastated than anyone else after casting a 'white guy' as Kyo kusanagi. Anyways coming back to the point, its not bad to to criticize at all. but why are we so partial to game based movies, why are we not so critical when it come to comic based movies, i know they receive their fair share of criticism as well. but it never really hurts the movie, a comic based movie, in fact even a novel based movie would easily make enough money to pump a sequel out of it and then in their next try they might actually make something good (examples HULK and punisher).

This brings me to my question
Why do we 'believe' and/or 'accept' a comic and/or novel based movies more than game based movies. Just because we 'think' they are true to their origins or simply because they have more star power or big names to back them up. i want to give examples of such blunders thrown at us by hollywood and us audiences fairly, if not whole heartedly accepting them. And i would also compare them against KOF's blunders, in order to support "GAME BASED MOVIES" not gordon chan or even the whole movie in that matter.

Casting of Sean Faris as Kyo - how can we forget the casting of Michael C. Duncan as Kingpin in dare devil,a black guy as white guy. we swalloed that saying that at least he has the size of the guy, well sean faris may have the skill of the guy(kyo)

Actor's outfit look nothing like their Originals - Imagine Hugh jackman wearing a yellow tight suit with knee high blue leather boots, sounds more like a freak's sexual fantasy than a comic hero, so they changed it completely and we liked it, in fact he turned out to be the most popular among the others, than why the drama after a game character's outfit not being potrayed properly in a movie, which is more freakier sumtimes.

Maggie Q is "physically" not appropriate to play Mai - Turn this scenario upside down, do u think emma watson (hermoine granger) at the age of 19 looks 'physically' appropriate to play a role which was actually etched for a little girl in the novel, but we will accept it. in fact theres one already in the making for 2011 making her 21 at that time, but what can you expect from an audience who has not even seen a harry potter book in their lives. in fact the same people consider it to be nerdy to read one.

The plot is nothing like the original - how many of us even know that Wanted(2008) is based on a comic/novel and those who do, do they even know its plot. let me paste it as i have seen the pasted KOF's plot kicked around like a punctured football.

"The premise of Wanted is that all the world's super-villains decided to band together in 1986 and use their vast collective powers — including mad science, magic and mind-control to kill all the super heroes" now where does the seduction of angelina jolie that is shown throughout the movie comes in that plot, but u know why it was 'added' to the movie, because it sells, and original characters such as FUCKWIT and SHITHEAD were removed.(not joking those are the names of wanted comic's characters)

But we accepted it because more than half of us didnt even knew that it was there. than why do we worry about the likes choi and benimaru to make it to the KOF movie.

and there are so many other examples like this, as said earlier Titanic is 10 years old now who wants to see leonardo de caprio die while holding to kate winslet floating on wooden door, why are we not concerned that "cant he just swim to another nearby floating doors/platforms which can be seen clearly in the shot! and that reminded me how can someone like benjamin button even exist.
all i want to say here is that we are too skeptical about Game based movies, just because a big director is not supporting it, like peter jackson and christopher nolan with their adaptations of a previous movie and a comic respectively. it does not mean that we get more skeptical about game based movies. its my challenge to all the critics of game based movies.
Try putting johnny depp with parted hair as the 'white guy' for kyo, and buy lindy hemming who designed the costumes for dark knight, james bond and harry potter to design the costumes for the characters. than cast lucy liu for mai, as she can play a charlie's angels who are supposed to be american and well-endowed than why not KOF. and than fill the plot with more star power, special effects, mindless lines and loud sounds so that no would understand what actually happened with the story and come out as a satisfied movie goer. and i challenge all the critics of the games based movies, that the same movie with the same inappropriate casting, unmatched storyline, non-original costumes and small breasted women will make it to the taurus, cannes and even oscars.

so in my belief the audience have not gotten any more intelligent, they have just changed their ways of looking at things and might have even gotten dumber.

Thank you for reading if u have read it so far. and take care.

Ugly.

Also, WTF at Sean Farris as Kyo Kusanagi.

this is really disappointing, with todays talent and effects you'd think a director would cast people that look like the characters they need to represent

I think this could be another failure King Of Fighters will be be a success same with Tekken as well what if Hollywood could do a movie based on World Heroes game series without following the games storyline World Heroes would have a story of sci fi with Big Trouble In Little China and Back to the Future storyline it could be worse.

By the way other video game movies are still on the list and it's good that Christophe Gans and Samuel Hadida did put Onimusha on delay so there will be a change of screenplay with new Japanese screenwriter Shin Yoshida and Kazunori Ito joining Keiji Inafune and John Collee to leave the project the story will be based on Onimusha Warlords game as I said some the there will be Japanese cast producers and script writers
Onimusha will be finance with Japanese and US,I would like if the David S Goyer and producers Avi Arad,Steven Paul and Larry Kasanoff to make the Devil May Cry movie,Larry Kasanoff should make the live action Darkstalkers movie with Capcom.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.

To be fair about the Medallion, the studio took it away from Gordon and Jackie in mid-shoot. Plus, Old Boy stole the squid-eating scene from it.

DOA is the better video game adaptation. It's not the best, but comparing to these past crap, DOA is a heck a lot better than SF:TLOCL and DB:E.

They're gonna ruin KOF, but the game isn't even popular now, so there is no point in bringing it to life.

Bad casting... waste of money... they have some people who had worked on bad movies, so its obvious this film might turn out as garbage.

Shit.

KOF for life....but this just killed it.

Why not make an Animated movie or a series and you won't have to..FUCK IT UP WITH CASTING KYO AS GYMKATA?!

Let's see here Gordon Chan directed Fist of Legend so this movie has to be good right. I mean if a director makes one really good movie than the rest of his or her movies have the same quality right? Right!?

HAHAAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how hard is to make a movie and choose a cast suited for the characters.

Ahh new movies suck these days. Well at least the ones made in crapwood.

Mortal Kombat, you can't touch it. A rip-off of Enter the Dragon, which is why it's so good.

i'm pulling for tekken to be at least decent. it has the best casting out of all these videogame movie adaptations.

No matter how many of these abortions tank they keep insisting on making them."They stab it with they're steely knives but they just can't kill the beast".

Well, Maggie Q is attractive and a decent actress in her own way but I somehow still don't see her as Mai at all. Mai is despite being very well-endowed, she happens to be perky, flirty, fun and out going and somehow, I really don't get that same vibe from Maggie. She would have made a fine Chizuru Kagura though.

As for the casting of Chizuru and Iori, at least they were cast appropriately but with Kyo now being played by a white guy, even as a fan of the games, I will never forgive them for this casting, ever! Plus, the stupid thing about this is that there are some idiots out there who defended this casting despite all of the hard evidence that has been stated before in the games, namely his heritage playing an important role in his character development and the story of The Orochi Saga.

I agree Lycosyncer, it would seem "yellowface" is still very alive today. Annoying as it may be I'm just as pissed at the fact that there's thousands if not millions of people who tell people who feel this way to "lighten up" and you're "making a big deal" out of nothing. I'm not going to go as far as to protest or riot or anything like that. But I do have a right to feel how I instinctually feel about these matters. That being said doesn't the character of "Mai" have an incredibly huge chest? As attractive as Maggie Q is, I'm not sure she'd be doing the character justice. Either way I'm not paying to say this.

What really pisses me off about this movie despite that it is being made in the first place, is that dreadful, racist casting of having a white actor like Sean Faris playing KOF's most popular Asian character, Kyo Kusanagi! I mean, the name is obviously Japanese and the character in the games is 100% Japanese! Why cast a white guy to play the leader of Team Japan? Worst casting choice ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is just as bad as M.Night Shyamalan's casting choices for his upcoming blunder, The Last Airbender.

oh and first

i think i vomitted in my mouth