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NEWS: Lionsgate Acquires Live-Action Streets of Rage Film


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kamen_otaku81



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 2:19 pm Reply with quote
I......I don't know what to say about it. Given the current track of video game adapted movies (Sonic The Hedgehog excluded. That and part two slaps), I'm not optimistic about it. But than again they got the guy who made John Wick on this though. But still, not to hopeful about it. Still sore about what they did to the Resident Evil. [expletive] Alice.
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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 2:47 pm Reply with quote
As long as they pass along the moral of ONLY TRUST YOUR FISTS POLICE WILL NEVER HELP YOU, it should be fine.
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johnnysasaki



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:05 pm Reply with quote
kamen_otaku81 wrote:
I......I don't know what to say about it. Given the current track of video game adapted movies (Sonic The Hedgehog excluded. That and part two slaps), I'm not optimistic about it. But than again they got the guy who made John Wick on this though. But still, not to hopeful about it. Still sore about what they did to the Resident Evil. [expletive] Alice.


at least there's still a chance,even if it's small,of something good coming out of the John Wick guy to handle a movie of a beat-em-up game,while anything with Paul W.S. Anderson's name attached you know it will be a lost cause(seriously,he hasn't made anything good in decades...),and a SOR movie from him would probably have migraine inducing and unwatchable action sequences(just check Resident Evil The Final Chapter,or rather,don't for your own health,literally...)
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WANNFH



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:09 pm Reply with quote
Like really, these people from dj2 purchased the rights to adapt the games like - Tomb Raider, Disco Elysium (?), Life is Strange, Little Nightmares, Sable, My Friend Pedro (?!), Sleeping Dogs and It Takes Two. You gotta guess they are some big players because of Sonic movies - but they're absolutely not, and they're just backed by Amazon very recently. And that makes it... a bit suspicious? If anything, that looks like hoarding without real action just for sake of holding 'em while the rights are cheap to get.
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GATSU



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:18 pm Reply with quote
Wonder whatever happened to the live-action Naruto LG was supposed to adapt...
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WANNFH



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:23 pm Reply with quote
GATSU wrote:
Wonder whatever happened to the live-action Naruto LG was supposed to adapt...
Pretty much the same as with the Netflix Sword Art Online adaptation - it's in a can.
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BadNewsBlues



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 3:51 pm Reply with quote
penguintruth wrote:
As long as they pass along the moral of ONLY TRUST YOUR FISTS POLICE WILL NEVER HELP YOU, it should be fine.


….Aren’t the original three main character’s cops?

One of whom is still on the job by the events of 4?
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MarshalBanana



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 4:37 pm Reply with quote
If they don't smash open bins to get cooked roast chickens it won't be a faithful adaptation.
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PipimiOden



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 5:51 pm Reply with quote
Didn't Aardman dump Lionsgate for Netflix in terms of distribution starting with Shaun the Sheep Farmageddon? I know a lot of their stuff under Lionsgate absolutely flopped in the box office.
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Beatdigga



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 6:37 pm Reply with quote
Another case of “I’ll believe it when I’m at the theater.” Kolstad is attached to a Hellsing movie that has zero news since being announced last year.

The moral is, if you want your movie to actually come out, base it on an original concept.
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MagicPolly



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 10:08 pm Reply with quote
Beatdigga wrote:
The moral is, if you want your movie to actually come out, base it on an original concept.

You know, except for the countless original movies that get scrapped all the time
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Beatdigga



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PostPosted: Wed Nov 16, 2022 10:24 pm Reply with quote
MagicPolly wrote:

You know, except for the countless original movies that get scrapped all the time


True, but the turnaround tends to be quicker and the odds better than licensed films, which get announced but rarely made.
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Guile



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 5:47 am Reply with quote
BadNewsBlues wrote:
….Aren’t the original three main character’s cops?

One of whom is still on the job by the events of 4?


Axel, Blaze, and Adam were all cops, yeah. Their special ability is to call in a cop car to fire missiles into the bad guys. I guess technically they resigned along with a bunch of other police since the rest of the force were bribed by Mr. X but once he's taken down Axel and Blaze rejoined the force as seen in 3. According to 4 Adam joins special forces as well. I guess you could say they're rogue loose canon cops who don't play by the rules in the first game though
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MFrontier



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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 10:52 am Reply with quote
Well, best of luck to them, I guess?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 17, 2022 4:49 pm Reply with quote
Streets of Rage has a story? Can´t wait to see the CG kangaroo in action.
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