In Defense Of A TEKKEN Reboot
*The following article is a crosspost from my debut on Monday, November 18, 2013 at The Action Elite. In the course of the past four years, I’ve had a thought brewing in my mind regarding tournament fighting games and movies. You see a lot of editorials out there about why those kinds of films suck, or articles listing best-to-worsts or worst-to-worser titles, or even some write-ups on what kind of fighting games or RPGs would make good live-action installations for film. Of course, the biggest, most notable fighting games to be mentioned over the years have been titles like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, Tekken and King Of Fighters, and so on. And I look at some of those articles fancasting actors and I get twisted when I see some suggestions for certain characters, especially since their picks don’t necessarily match the reality of how the character could look on screen. […]