When I interviewed MMA fighter Cung Le who plays Marshall Law in the upcoming TEKKEN movie based on the Namco video game , he told me that he basically didn’t have a great experience because even though his character is popular, he only had a small part and they kept pushing back his shooting date, everything was cramped and rushed. Comingsoon.net spotted the teaser art above at the recent AFM ‘09. It currently doesn’t have a release date but TEKKEN live action movie is directed by Dwight H. Little with the script by Alan B. McElroy, the story is about Jin Kazama’s quest for revenge against Tekken Corporation chairman Heihachi Mishima, the man responsible for the death of his mother. The only way for Jin to get close to Mishima is to enter Tekken’s Iron Fist tournament. IGN watched the promotional trailer and here is the description…
The following title cards flash at various points throughout the trailer: “One tournament … decides the fate of millions. … They fight for power … They fight for honor … They fight for pride … But one man … fights for revenge. … Courage fuels him … Rage drives him.”
The trailer opens with a Blade Runner-style flying car soaring over a futuristic city, which has a massive stadium in the center of it. Inside the stadium, a rowdy crowd cheers for the show to begin, their blood clearly up. We see the “Tekken Iron Fist” tournament sign, then shots of fighters in action. We get our first look at goatee-sporting Ian Anthony Dale as Kazuya Mishima, followed by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Heihachi Mishima (whose countenance also graces giant ads for Tekken on the sides of buildings, with the slogan “Strength Through Order”). We then see a montage of the tournament’s different fighters, including Raven, Eddie Gordo, Bryan Fury, Craig Marduk, and Yoshimitsu
we meet our hero, Jin Kazama (Jon Foo), as he runs along the ledges of a building and leaps off, parkour-style. We see him fight in a cage match (reminiscent of Wolverine’s introduction in the first X-Men), and his rise up from the streets and into the Iron Fist competition
Jin meets Steve Fox (Luke Goss), and then the sexy Christie Monteiro (Kelly Overton). Then there’s the making-of-a hero montage of Jin in training, pummeling a wooden dummy. More shots of Yoshimitsu. Steve Fox yelling. Kazuya walking bare-chested with a wall of fire behind him. Then we get our hero shot of Jin, now looking exactly like his game counterpart: no shirt, black pants with flames down the right leg, the gauntlets
We then see Steve Fox in the ring, followed by hot chicks fighting (it may have been Nina vs. Anna Williams, or one of them vs. Christie Monteiro; it all went by too fast to tell). Then we get a Fast and Furious dance club scene with Christie bumping and grinding, then of her and Jin making out. We see Jin battling Bryan Fury (Gary Daniels), with one of Jin’s blow causing a sort of energized ripple across Fury’s chest. Cut to a shot of guards pulling a distraught Asian woman away (this may have been Jun Kazama, played by Tamlyn Tomita). More fighting shots, now with fighters wielding maces and half-moon axes. It ends with, of course, the Tekken movie logo.
The website also says that the trailer looked better than Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li and it felt more like a mix of Mortal Kombat and X-Men with a bit of “sexy, hip, urban youth appeal” of the Fast and the Furious
TEKKEN is an ensemble cast starring Luke Goss (Hellboy II) as Steve Fox, Gary Daniels as Bryan Fury, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa as Heihachi Mishima, Cung Le as Marshall Law, Kelly Overton as Christie Monteiro, Jon Foo as Jin Kazama
