Dimension added to Dead or Alive film

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Nov 21, 2005 12:14 pm PT

Genre film distributors gets rights to Corey Yuen's game-based martial arts flick; fall release planned.

While survival horror games, first-person shooters, and action games seem to be all the rage when it comes to subject matter for movies these days, the fighting game might be gaining some ground on those genres. Variety is reporting today that the genre-based arm of Miramax, Dimension Films, has picked up the rights to distribute director Corey Yuen's upcoming film take on Tecmo's Dead or Alive series in North America next fall. Tekken and Mortal Kombat are also scheduled to get new film adaptations next year.

Yuen's resume seems tailor-made for a movie based on a fighting game. His career as a fight choreographer in films has spanned several decades, from old-school martial arts classics like The Instant Kung Fu Man and Drunken Master, to more recent fare like Lethal Weapon 4 and The One, both of which were made with longtime collaborator Jet Li.

The film was shot in China and boasts a number of recognizable faces in its lineup. Devon Aoki (Sin City, Fast and the Furious) will star as Kasumi, with Shane Kosugi (son of '80s ninja film mainstay Sho Kosugi) taking the role of Ninja Gaiden star Ryu Hyabusa. Jaime Pressly (My Name Is Earl, Joe Dirt) takes the role of wrestling vixen Tina Armstrong, while actual pro wrestler Kevin Nash (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze, the Adam Sandler remake of The Longest Yard) will play her disapproving father, Bass.

The cast is rounded out by Sarah Carter (Final Destination 2, K-9: P.I.), Natassia Malthe (Elektra, K-9: P.I.), Matthew Marsden (Black Hawk Down, Anacondas: Hunt for the Blood Orchid), Eric Roberts (Runaway Train, The Specialist), and Mortal Kombat's own Liu Kang, Robin Shou.

Earlier this month, Variety reported that Dimension Films had signed an agreement with Crystal Sky Pictures to distribute the film based on Konami's Castlevania in North America.

42 Comments

  • sniper2k0

    Posted Oct 1, 2007 7:33 am PT

    The movie is actually quite good...NOT!

  • deckmaster2004

    Posted May 22, 2007 12:19 pm PT

    i just have a bad feeling about this, maybe a NG action movie would be nice but a DOA action ecchi movie with REAL CAST... i dont like this

  • DeathgiverX

    Posted Sep 22, 2006 2:40 pm PT

    If there is a God, please just let it die before they release it, PLEASE!

  • inYuashiaZero

    Posted Sep 10, 2006 12:26 am PT

    if they want the series to live on forever they will kill the movie, i apprive of the MK movie though ive been waiting for a new one. and its already had 2 good yet crapy movies so what ever
    or mabey they should change the movie name to "no this is not DOA it just looks like it and has no realation)

  • volumesoxxs

    Posted Jul 19, 2006 5:19 pm PT

    I saw the teaser, this show is going to bomb it looks so lame.

  • Reyveign

    Posted Jun 27, 2006 4:40 am PT

    Meh, shouldn'ta said anything before seeing the teaser. Pfeh, IMO its gonna suck. *Sigh* Can't these directors get anything right?

  • Reyveign

    Posted Jun 27, 2006 4:34 am PT

    As long as Uwe Boll isn't the director, I think this movie has a chance... but then again, maybe not. I suppose we'll see.

  • rodimus_prime85

    Posted Jun 19, 2006 12:54 am PT

    Is it even going to follow the plot of the game? Or are we going to be looking forward to another Street Fighter, The Incrediably Poor Movie?

  • LeiGet

    Posted Jun 12, 2006 3:47 am PT

    It'll have a better chance than Doom.

    Quote from John Carmack, programmer of Doom:
    "Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important."

  • LiGhTNiNG-RaY

    Posted May 11, 2006 11:14 am PT

    I don't know what other might have think about this coming movie, but honestly I don't like it... I've seen the trailer... It's not even like the DoA game itself.
    I mean character are not even resemble to the fighter profile...
    I've seen the actress play as Ayane is a lot older than the actress that play as Kasumi... Isn't Ayane suppose to be younger than Kasumi?
    Why do they messed up the good game? It would be nice if it resembles the game... especially the character profile...

  • EvIlKiNgKoOpA

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 8:34 pm PT

    if they dont got a good plot

    they better have the hottest chick
    half naked

    ofcourse for us guys

    to have something to see

    and i know none of those DOA chicks
    have C cup sizes bras

  • sprawwl

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 3:04 pm PT

    I have a bad feeling about this game. From what I've seen, movies based around fights tend to be:
    1. hopelessly lame
    2. not very good at portraying fighting
    3. hopelessly lame

    let's just hope that this one is an exception. I'm not holding my breath, though...

  • silentmobius

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 6:02 am PT

    Ohhh boy, I just saw the trailer of this movie online. Lets just say that it makes Street Fighter the movie look like a classic award winner.

  • Eclipse_ShinRa

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 5:07 am PT

    lets just hope they dont miss this moive up 2

  • Eclipse_ShinRa

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 5:07 am PT

    bdub20791 is right, Motalcombat, Doom, just sucked, the ony movie i seen that as good off a game was FFAC, and soon to be halo

  • ewjim

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 3:51 am PT

    When do they finish to make BAD films from GREAT games?!!
    Shame on they heads!!!

  • lostn

    Posted Nov 22, 2005 2:51 am PT

    Any word on Dennis Rodman as Zack?

  • GunBlade2112

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 10:57 pm PT

    the last fighting games movies to come out were mortal kombat, and everyone's favorite mistake The STREET FIGHTER MOVIE. holy holy crap. my eyes are burning...

  • Blobio-

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 9:26 pm PT

    magus is right...fighting but no solid plot? -_-

  • CrashSpyro123

    Posted Nov 21, 2005 8:34 pm PT

    It should've been a CG movie like Advent Children since the cast doesn't exactly fit the enhanced models that Tecmo has created.

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