The King Of Fighters
Stars: Maggie Q, Sean Faris, Will Yun Lee, Ray Park, David Leitch, Françoise Yip | Written by Rita Augustine, Chris Chow, Matthew Ryan Fischer | Directed by Gordon Chan
Based on the Snk Video game series and directed by Gordon Chan (Jackie Chan’s Thunderbolt, Fist of Legend), The King of Fighters is a (relatively) lowbudget independent flick that has little in common with the game from which it takes its name. When I say little in common I mean that the film uses little more than the names of the characters we know and love from the game, and referencing the Orochi, which made up a key part of the story in the early years of the video game franchise (King Of Fighters ’95 – ’97) and has since played a part in subsequent installments – and nothing much else.
The film iteration of The King of Fighters tells the story...
Stars: Maggie Q, Sean Faris, Will Yun Lee, Ray Park, David Leitch, Françoise Yip | Written by Rita Augustine, Chris Chow, Matthew Ryan Fischer | Directed by Gordon Chan
Based on the Snk Video game series and directed by Gordon Chan (Jackie Chan’s Thunderbolt, Fist of Legend), The King of Fighters is a (relatively) lowbudget independent flick that has little in common with the game from which it takes its name. When I say little in common I mean that the film uses little more than the names of the characters we know and love from the game, and referencing the Orochi, which made up a key part of the story in the early years of the video game franchise (King Of Fighters ’95 – ’97) and has since played a part in subsequent installments – and nothing much else.
The film iteration of The King of Fighters tells the story...
- 12/27/2011
- by Phil
- Nerdly
It seems the filmmakers behind Merantau and the upcoming The Raid is not the only game in town to carve a niche with stuntwork and martial arts action within the Indonesia film industry. Creative Motion Pictures presents Pirate Brothers, the production company first action film from director Asun Mawardi and Matthew Ryan Fischer, the screenwriter of the video game adaptation King of Fighters. The two leads playing the two brothers is Robin Shou and IMD Verdy Bhawanta while Marcio Fernando Da Silva co-star as a pirate. 'The Pirate Brothers', is an action-packed tale of truth, brotherhood and vengeance. When young Sunny loses his protective brother to a gang of thugs, he vows from then on to seek eventual revenge. Years later, he ends up in...
- 7/21/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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