Tekken film poster pops up

By Robert Purchese Published 1 November, 2007

Onimusha close to production.

The first poster for the Tekken film has appeared online.

It was unearthed on film site Comingsoon.net, and depicts a great bit "T" with a fancy poem underneath.

  • After the Great Terror Wars, governments fell...
  • Seven corporations rose from the ashes to rule all men...
  • Together they were known as The Iron Fist...
  • The mightiest of which was...
  • Tekken

Apparently the story is based around two childhood friends who just happen to be really good at fighting so they enter a martial arts tournament and begin to unravel the mysterious secret of Tekken Corp.

It is the first we have heard on the film since Japanese film makers Gaga Communications told us it would be built on a strong script rather than CG tomfoolery back in 2003.

Comingsoon.net also unpacked its news basket to reveal that the Onimusha movie film by Silent Hill director Christophe Gans will begin filming next April.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (19) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • Razzajazz #1 4 years ago

    What?! Tekken Corp.?! That doesn't even make any sense!

  • Squire #2 4 years ago

    sounds like UT

  • Xerx3s #3 4 years ago

    Van Damme FTW! \0/

    /fan of very bad 80's/90's B-films

    They just don't make them like they used to, these days it's all polished CG. ;_;

  • Steroyd #4 4 years ago

    Remembers Guile's Scissor kick, M.Bison's Electro move Kylie Monogue as Cammy and Chun Li sexy asian woman actor.

    Ah the memories, those shameful shameful memories.

  • kingnothing12 #5 4 years ago

    hope they get the original japanese actor who played the guy in the first onimusha, can't remember his name, he also came back for the 3rd one with jean reno, or they will turn it into americanised crap.

  • Gnort #6 4 years ago

    So, who reckons this will be another videogame movie that completely ignores the plot of the actual game it's based on and instead comes up with it's own interpretation, which manages to be even weaker (and the plot of fighting games is usually incredibly weak to start with)?

    Still, can't be worse than Dead or Alive, can it?

  • tonynibbles #7 4 years ago

    Typo: A great *BIG* T, not bit.

  • Iora #8 4 years ago

    "A strong script"

    A STRONG SCRIPT

    Bwuuuhahahahaha
    Tekken Corp destined for epic fail

  • Freeman01 #9 4 years ago

    @ kingnothing12

    I think its Takeshi Kaneshiro (not sure if I spelt it right!) he starred in House of the flying daggers as well.

    I definitely think it would cool film, but it will end up some nonsensical crap.
    Edited by 1 at 01/11/07 @ 12:12

  • Cyhwuhx #10 4 years ago

    .::: Dear lord...
    Did the scriptwriters even know what it was based upon?

    [edit] Or did they even look up what Tekken means, to start with?
    Edited by 1 at 01/11/07 @ 13:02

  • spud71 #11 4 years ago

    They should try and film it like Beowulf with the look of the characters over the actors. That way the motion will look better than CG animation.

  • HelloWorld #12 4 years ago

    So, it's good they're sticking closely to the original material. Anyways i guess that didn't spoil my enjoyment of the DOA movie too much- not like the story is the main cool bit of fighting games.
    If they get some of the characters "right" and the some of the fight scenes are awesome it'll be cool.

  • jlaakso #13 4 years ago

    Oh lord, this is one of those cases where you can say that a movie is going to suck, just based on the poster.

  • Lemming81 #14 4 years ago

    I actually quite liked Mortal Kombat the movie...


    *runs*

  • Kyle #15 4 years ago

    I think this poster would make more sense if it had a huge LOLcats "FAIL" beneath it.

  • Drakron #16 4 years ago

    The small bit of Street Fighter of City Hunter was better that the entire Street Fighter movie.

    Jackie Chan made a fine Chun Li.

  • Cannibal #17 4 years ago

    Kazuya should be the main guy in the movie.

  • captainrentboy #18 4 years ago

    So will there actually be any accomplished martial artists starring in this flick? Or will it be another terrible roster of Actors like DOA's cast, which I think had one guy in it who could actually do the fight scenes without looking like a joke. (Seraph from the Matrix flicks I believe)

  • SomaticSense #19 4 years ago

    "The small bit of Street Fighter of City Hunter was better that the entire Street Fighter movie. "

    Oh come on, that's not really saying a lot really though is it. Even
    this is better than the SF movie.
    Edited by 2 at 01/11/07 @ 21:25