One of my favorite video games to play when I was growing up was Konami's action game Contra. I'm sure many of you have fond memories of playing this game and I've got some great and exciting news for you!
Konami is teaming up with a Chinese media giant Starlight Media to develop a live-action Contra movie and TV series! The film was teased last year in a video that you can watch below, but now everything is official and set in stone.
Thanks to China Film Insider, this is the synopsis that was released:
In 1988, a huge meteorite lands on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea.
Chen Qiang and Li Zhiyong investigate but come up empty handed. 29 years later, Chen sends commandos Bill and Lance into a combat mission there to neutralize the villainous Red Falcon Organization, but end up facing a different enemy altogether.
Kotaku points...
Konami is teaming up with a Chinese media giant Starlight Media to develop a live-action Contra movie and TV series! The film was teased last year in a video that you can watch below, but now everything is official and set in stone.
Thanks to China Film Insider, this is the synopsis that was released:
In 1988, a huge meteorite lands on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea.
Chen Qiang and Li Zhiyong investigate but come up empty handed. 29 years later, Chen sends commandos Bill and Lance into a combat mission there to neutralize the villainous Red Falcon Organization, but end up facing a different enemy altogether.
Kotaku points...
- 10/26/2017
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
Ryan Lambie May 10, 2017
Classic run-and-gun arcade game Contra is to become a film courtesy of China's Beijing Starlit Movie company...
Released in 1987, Contra was an arcade game for an age of pumped-up, Reagan-era action films. About a pair of muscle-bound heroes, Lance and Bill, and their fight against enemy forces on a tropical archipelago, the run-and-gunner launched a series that, to date, contains 11 sequels and spin-offs.
Thirty years after its initial release, Konami's classic is set to stage a come-back from an unexpected angle: a Chinese production company has announced that it's making a movie adaptation. Aside from a slight change in location, the plot sounds broadly the same as the original game's back-story. Here's the official synopsis:
"In 1988, a huge meteorite lands on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea. Chen Qiang and Li Zhiyong investigate but come up empty handed. 29 years later, Chen sends commandos Bill and...
Classic run-and-gun arcade game Contra is to become a film courtesy of China's Beijing Starlit Movie company...
Released in 1987, Contra was an arcade game for an age of pumped-up, Reagan-era action films. About a pair of muscle-bound heroes, Lance and Bill, and their fight against enemy forces on a tropical archipelago, the run-and-gunner launched a series that, to date, contains 11 sequels and spin-offs.
Thirty years after its initial release, Konami's classic is set to stage a come-back from an unexpected angle: a Chinese production company has announced that it's making a movie adaptation. Aside from a slight change in location, the plot sounds broadly the same as the original game's back-story. Here's the official synopsis:
"In 1988, a huge meteorite lands on an uninhabited island in the South China Sea. Chen Qiang and Li Zhiyong investigate but come up empty handed. 29 years later, Chen sends commandos Bill and...
- 5/10/2017
- Den of Geek
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