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Offline WindyMan

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Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« on: March 03, 2004, 06:05:16 PM »
Oh look, another wildly popular and successful videogame brand is about to be horribly ruined by Hollywood!

Anthem Pictures (a Sony Pictures unit) and producer Warren Zide have acquired the rights to create a feature film based on Namco's Soul Calibur game franchise.  Zide will be producing the film along with Craig Perry, reuniting the team that brought the American Pie and Final Destination movies to theaters.


Soul Calibur, of course, is the crown jewel of 3D weapon-based fighting games, and its sequel, Soul Calibur II, is currently available on the GameCube.

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RE: Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #1 on: March 03, 2004, 06:22:38 PM »
heheh..while id love to see this move...like how would that even work...soul calibur makes no sense as it it..but i do wanna se badass samurais fight badass knights...
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RE:Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #2 on: March 03, 2004, 07:41:15 PM »
Nothing's going to happen. These are the same guys who licensed Metroid, and didn't do anything with it.

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RE: Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #3 on: March 03, 2004, 08:29:08 PM »
Oh dear.  When will Hollywood learn?

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RE:Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #4 on: March 03, 2004, 10:08:43 PM »
Please god do not let them make the movie, as much as i am a fan of soul calibur I would seriously not want the guys who brought us American Pie and Final Destination to make this game.  I bet if Mel Gibson could direct this movie it would be Heaven, lol.  I hope i didnt affend any jews.

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RE:Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2004, 10:28:33 PM »
Hey--maybe they're buying the rights out of respect towards gamers, so that nobody can make a crappy movie and shame beloved videogame franchises!
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RE: Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #6 on: March 04, 2004, 01:01:43 AM »
Haha, that would be nice wouldn't it?
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RE:Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #7 on: March 04, 2004, 03:23:09 AM »
Greetings to: Lord Huk[gK] (Raph, Kilik, Maxi MASTER) and Enré (Mitsu JOURNEYMAN) from KingM3[gK] (Cervy, Voldo MASTER).

Cervy is the best, so he should be played by Arnie and get it on with _all_ the ladiez.
Raph is obviously camp, he should have a steamy scene with Mitsu (and maybe Kilik and some cats). Somewhere in the middle Mitsu should shout out 'bring out the gimp' whereupon Voldo should emerge in his royals. Then maybe Astaroth could join in.

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RE: Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #8 on: March 04, 2004, 03:46:06 AM »
I hope TYP is right.

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RE:Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #9 on: March 04, 2004, 09:17:17 AM »
wow, voldo huh, yeah plz for heaven sakes do not use his character in a movie........puke.

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RE: Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #10 on: March 04, 2004, 10:38:18 AM »
I like to dream too, TYP.

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RE:Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #11 on: March 04, 2004, 12:17:31 PM »
Maybe it'll be like the mortal Combat movies. Imagine Mortal Combat with brighter colors.
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« Reply #12 on: March 04, 2004, 12:26:21 PM »
Don't make the news worse, please...
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« Reply #13 on: March 05, 2004, 11:59:36 AM »
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Maybe it'll be like the mortal Combat movies. Imagine Mortal Combat with brighter colors.

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RE: Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #14 on: March 05, 2004, 08:05:53 PM »
Hm, I guess they could use the ingame models with minor modifications to make a rendered movie...

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RE: Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2004, 10:54:55 PM »
I will watch this just to support gaming movies, not because it will be any good.
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RE: Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #16 on: March 07, 2004, 06:45:40 AM »
*sniff sniff*, I smell another Street Fighter the movie on the horizion.

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RE:Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #17 on: March 07, 2004, 04:25:06 PM »
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Oh look, another wildly popular and successful videogame brand is about to be horribly ruined by Hollywood!


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RE: Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #18 on: March 19, 2004, 12:50:50 PM »
if this were being made into a porn, it might work.

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RE:Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #19 on: March 19, 2004, 07:10:36 PM »


The movie could turn out to be good.  The first Mortal Kombat movie was actually pretty good.  The second one sucked hairy dog ass, though.
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RE:Soul Calibur Heads to Big Screen
« Reply #20 on: March 19, 2004, 11:11:57 PM »
To be honest I didn't mind the first one either, but yea the second one sucked more hairy dog ass than Michael Jackson during his college years.
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