Another Tekken Movie in the Works With Ong-Bak Director Attached

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Richard Walker

Ong-Bak was pretty good. 2010's Tekken movie was not. The director of Ong-Bak and The Protector, Prachya Pinkaew is taking on the next Tekken movie, a prequel to the 2010 flick named 'Tekken: A Man Called X'.

The upcoming Tekken movie stars Kane Kosugi, who is no stranger to video game fighting movies, having played Ryu Hayabusa in the rather dreadful DOA: Dead or Alive movie from 2006. Update Apparently this is not the case. Kosugi is in fact starring in a movie called Agent X, according to an amendment on his website.

“We would like to apologize for the ineptitude on our part,” reads an update from Destiny Production.

Will Tekken: A Man Called X be awful? If Pinkaew can capture the same kind of martial arts energy he did in Ong-Bak, it may actually be watchable. We remain optimistic. For now.

[Cinema Today via Kotaku]

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  • Honestly I've seen all his movies the martial arts were awesome but I hate subtitles so I didn't gdt the story to Ong Bak the first time I saw it but the action scenes were awesome and it was brilliant same with the protector fortunately it was dubbed anyway point is I liked Ong Bak without knowing what it was about purely because of the action scenes so him doing Tekken should be awesome even if the plot sucks.
  • I enjoyed the first movie for its campiness, reminded me of the first MK movie in a way. I'm not trying to say its a good movie but it was entertaining for a Tekken fan, if you can get past Jin being skinny, hilarious hairdos, blatantly plastic costumes, A tournament bracket that basically has the good guy fighting everyone, random nonsensical threesomes, and random christie buttcrack!
  • I actually like the Tekken movie. I'd rate it far higher than DOA or SF but lower than MK and more near Double Dragon and it's certainly good for what it is - a video game movie for a freaking fighting game. At least it got the over-sexualisation right ;) Ong Bak is a pretty high bar to reach for martial arts movies, so this could turn out surprisingly good.
  • If Tony Jaa isn't Marshall Law then I have no reason to watch it.
  • @4 I would love to see Tony Jaa as Law. THEN it could be an awesome movie.
  • I hope they truly follow the real story of Tekken and capture all character as they are in the games that we see. Still I would say fighting video game converting to movie sucks. The best one so far would be Mortal Kombat.
  • I enjoyed the live action movie, and is a pleasant experience. the problem most times is people expect too much I'd say.
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