Behind the horrifying scenes of the King of Fighters movie

by JC Fletcher { Oct 9th 2009 at 10:30AM }

King of Fighters fans would probably really appreciate a live-action movie that deals with the series' surprisingly detailed storylines faithfully, while bringing their favorite characters into real life in a recognizable way. Those are the exact people who should never, ever watch the King of Fighters movie.

Disclosure: if we weren't watching this behind-the-scenes trailer (after the break) for work, we would have turned it off as soon as the narration said that the fighting took place in another dimension. But then we would have missed being introduced to the white guy playing Kyo Kusanagi! And to Iori Yagami's hockey getup.

Don't worry, the movie's actually in good hands: the actress playing Vice has heard of King of Fighters.

[Thanks, Doug]

Tags: king-of-fighters, king-of-fighters-movie, maggie-q, snk

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

PedoJokerBear [Planeteer | Power of Gall Bladder] @ Oct 9th 2009 10:31AM

MY eyes.........................THEY BLEED

PedoJokerBear [Planeteer | Power of Gall Bladder] @ Oct 9th 2009 10:32AM

also Maggie Q is hottastically hot.

Stevetrop @ Oct 9th 2009 12:47PM

What has been seen, cannot be unseen :(

XBL: xGeneral DEATHx PSN: Deeth82 [Planeteer | Power of General Hostility and Angst] @ Oct 9th 2009 12:51PM

I agree...it's nearly impossible to hate her for being in this "movie", due to her extreme hotness factor.

embassy @ Oct 9th 2009 2:25PM

But Pedo,

Have you tried ze goggles?

PedoJokerBear [Planeteer | Power of Gall Bladder] @ Oct 9th 2009 2:26PM

do they protect me from ze germans?

Timstew @ Oct 9th 2009 2:45PM

I'm glad Joystiq noticed that Hollywood whitewashed another Asian main character in a movie.

hector88 @ Oct 9th 2009 10:39AM

I think the fairly good memories I had of KoF from when I was playing it will be ruined by this movie. Thanks a lot Gordon Chan.

Platinum_Skeet @ Oct 9th 2009 11:02AM

Out of every game to make a movie out of King of Fighters. You'd be better off making a movie off of WiiFit instead of this game.... =P

acefondu @ Oct 9th 2009 11:09AM

...or Spore....whoops!

Lonecow @ Oct 9th 2009 11:37AM

Actually if you knew anything about the series you'd know that KOF has the most intricate storyline of any fighting game out there.

It deserves an actually film much more then Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat.

Platinum_Skeet @ Oct 9th 2009 11:56AM

It doesn't matter what game because Hollywood kills the plots of movies based off games. If done right Max Payne should have been a cinematic masterpiece but, instead it's a movie that no one wants to see.

If the game industry doesn't have enough backbone to protect their IP's we're just going to have to deal with this over and over until someone finally makes a must-see movie off a game. Until that day we're gonna have to deal with b.s like thiis.

Platinum_Skeet @ Oct 9th 2009 11:57AM

@lonecow

This -------->>> =P

Equals sarcasm or a joke..

Lonecow @ Oct 9th 2009 2:15PM

Joke or not, you implied that King of Fighters has no story. While I'm not going to say it's a GREAT story, it is at least fleshed out with interesting characters.

Saying it is as shallow as WiiFit is just insulting.

No biggie I'm not upset by it, just pointing out the series actually has an interesting story and you should check it out. Rereading my previous post I realize I sounded like a douche, but I should have just said you should check the games out, they are pretty good. Only fighting game series I know that has had characters die in their story and stay dead.

Fatal Fury also has a great storyline that has nothing to do with demons or aliens or clones, and also has permanent character deaths. The story begins in Art of Fighting, where Andy and Terry's dad gets killed by a young Geese Howard, and has time progression and characters aging.

acefondu @ Oct 9th 2009 10:39AM

Could the movie actually be worse than King of Fighters XII? Hard to say...watching Ray Park do his thing is always really enjoyable. Considering ticket price ratio to the horrendous $60 they charged for a game only 40% complete...I'd say the movie will probably be better just to watch Ray Park flip around.

Shattercross @ Oct 9th 2009 12:06PM

Ouch sir, my heart bleedth at the sight of those words.

I will agree that the game could have been much more, but to choose this low budget crapfest over it? CHOOSING RAY PARK OVER IT?!? That guy has the charisma of a paperbag.

I for one choose both the incomplete game and crappy movie!!!

....sigh, my love for kof.

acefondu @ Oct 9th 2009 1:51PM

It's not Ray's charisma I'm interested in. It's his ninja-like abilities that are enjoyable to watch. Come on you can't watch Star Wars Ep.1 and see his Darth Maul flip around and do awesomeness and not think he was the most badass of all the Jedi/Sith. He MADE episode 1 bearable to watch.

And I'd buy KoFXII for $30, which is equal to how much effort I feel they put in the game. Seriously, 4 stages? Next to nill on music? Almost no single player options? The worst online since Soul Calibur 4? I'm not a KoF hater, I love XI and 98 Ultimate Match. It's just sad that XII doesn't posses an OUNCE of quality or polish that XI or 98 had.

EvinTheSwift @ Oct 9th 2009 10:42AM

Is this going to be an actual movie? Looks fan-made..

AsherR [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Oct 9th 2009 10:46AM

My thoughts exactly! Hearing that voiceover in the beginning screamed youtube account. Among other things...

EvinTheSwift @ Oct 9th 2009 10:54AM

lmao, look who they have playing Terry..

joshua.nash @ Oct 9th 2009 10:43AM

a graduate of the UWE BOLL SCHOOL of how to BUTCHER a VIDEO GAME MOVIE has got to be making this movie

Obie @ Oct 9th 2009 2:15PM

Can't wait for it to come out! Then new "TANG" on Giantbomb! :D

Hydrophobicfish (PSN: HydrophobicFish) @ Oct 9th 2009 10:44AM

Has heard of KoF? Well, at least that's a step UP from the Mario Brothers movie...

Zsavior @ Oct 9th 2009 10:44AM

Wow. That movie is the face of true evil. You open your dictionary and look up evil that movie will be there. What the figgity fuck. For the first time in my life I am dumb struck. Why in the world did they even do this? This is like they waited at a toilet and took the runny shit of Dragon Ball evolution and Street fighter legend of Chung li swirled in around with a little Mortal Kombat 2 and got this new super Flu like crapola.

The only Vaccine for that movie is obviously death, quick and painless. Opposed from the slow agonizing torture you will experience watching that "film". It will scar your mind

AsherR [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Oct 9th 2009 10:48AM

So I take it you're a big fan of the KoF series? :P

Deadpool @ Oct 9th 2009 5:35PM

Yeah I totally agree. This is...just....just...well. Here's my comment commentary of the video.

*Deadpools reaction while watching the video in real time*

Noo.....Noooo.....don't....NO! Please! This cannot be happening! NOOOO! No no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no no NO! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoOOOOOOOOOOOooOooOooo!!!

Why must the videogame fans suffer with this horrific rape of a video game movie?! Why, I say! Why?!

STOP IT!!!

AsherR [Planeteer | Power of The Hoff] @ Oct 9th 2009 10:45AM

I'm really glad that I'm not familiar with the story and characters of KoF, because I have a feeling that the trailer was really bad in correlation to the game.
Also, where was Mai's signature look? Yes, it's crazy looking for a real life movie, but hey, it's hot.

Heavytoka @ Oct 9th 2009 10:47AM

Wow looks bad, at least Maggie Q looked Hot!

Obie @ Oct 9th 2009 1:25PM

Hot yes, but I wanted to twomp her when she compared this piece of trash to Fight Club!

rells009 @ Oct 9th 2009 10:57AM

Wow!

And I thought the Chun-li movie looked bad. I don't see anything about this movie that brings forth thoughts of the KOF games. And why's everyone so American? I mean as much as I like Ray Park...he's a bit too small to be Rugal. He could do a great Billy Kane, but Rugal??

Nipah @ Oct 9th 2009 11:54PM

Apparently Ray Parks + 6" platform boots = Rugal...

DarthDavid @ Oct 9th 2009 10:59AM

I've been gaming/collecting for over 20 years now.....I can truly believe that I will NEVER see a decent fighting game based movie (the first Mortal Kombat was close of being OK).....is it me or they're getting....worse?!?!

Aerothorn @ Oct 9th 2009 11:01AM

"If you like video games, you're going to like this movie."

I mean, honestly, can you say that about ANY film? Even a really good one?

phobic99 @ Oct 9th 2009 11:02AM

Just one question: Why?

Maverick Saturn (Igor) @ Oct 9th 2009 11:02AM

My confidence in a Tekken movie has just hit rock bottom because of this ¬_¬

I thought it was fan made......until I saw serious actors talking about how much fun it was to make......are they trying to find reasoning and justification as to why they acted in this shit? lol

cylet @ Oct 9th 2009 11:22AM

the tekken movie at least has a great cast of dedicated martial artists... also, its rated R. i think that at least makes it better than this P.O.S.

Taylor @ Oct 9th 2009 1:54PM

When is the Tekken movie supposed to come out?

cylet @ Oct 9th 2009 8:19PM

it's supposed to come out with tekken 6

Dr. Bradwart @ Oct 9th 2009 11:04AM

I think even the Asteroids movie will be better than this.

cede @ Oct 9th 2009 11:33AM

Garbage truck called. It wants its trash back.

Storm Eagle [Resident Capcom Megafan] @ Oct 9th 2009 11:39AM

Did I miss something and Terry dyed and cut his hair? Secondly, why in Heaven and Earth is Iori wearing hockey gear?!?!?!?

/facepalm...
....over and over again.

Nipah @ Oct 9th 2009 11:57PM

He just came from the local rink.. you know, because he's fulfilling his dream of being Emilio Estevez and training a small, ragtag group of misfits how to work as a team and overcome all odds...

or the director / costume director are criminally insane.

Your choice.