Derek Connolly, the screenwriter known for his work on the Jurassic World trilogy, is set to adapt Sega’s 1993 fighting game Eternal Champions into a live-action film. This project is being developed by Skydance, with Toru Nakahara, who has overseen the Sonic movies, acting as one of the producers.
There’s a Zelda movie? Uggggh.
Jurassic World trilogy writer? Uggggh.
They understood what I wanted from my dinosaurs out of control nostalgia movie!
Spoiler for Jurassic World 3
Clouds of bugs on fire, instead of dinosaurs!
(This is Sarcasm, and I agree with you, and I too, have concerns…)
Yeah JW3 somehow managed to do so many things that seemed like wins and then somehow was just…boring.
Why?
As someone who actually played these games on the Genesis and Sega CD, I’m guessing someone said, “We need to compete with the Mortal Kombat movies. Find me another fighting game franchise that’s got the same level of violence. Bonus points if there hasn’t been a new game in 30 years so we won’t piss off as many nerds when we butcher the lore.”
And it might work. As much as I enjoyed the games back in the day, it really doesn’t take up much space in my brain. I really wouldn’t lose any sleep if it bombed.
On the flip side, if the movie ends up awesome, maybe my copy of the game will be worth a lot more.
Once again, no one remembers Bloodstorm…
Now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time… a long time.
There was Eternal Champions on the Genesis, EC: CD on the Sega CD and a few side scroller “side games” with Larcen and Shadow that never went anywhere. I think those were on both the Genesis and Game Gear.
The Sega Saturn had a photo on the back of the box for a Saturn version that never actually came out.
What next, a Ristar movie?
Rocket Knight
Uh…wow.
Now I’m sad we don’t have this.
I would see Rocket Knight in the theater, on opening knight.
opening knight
Cut that out!
So that’s what the bottom of the barrel looks like!
I’m weirdly down for this.
I know they’ll butcher the 16-bit original plot - whatever the hell that was, anyway.
But I confess I didn’t care back then and I’m willing to continue, briefly, not caring now, if this can land somewhere on the stupid-pretty-and-fun spectrum.
Is this how normal people enjoy a Transformers film without being angry that Optimus is saying stupid shit that 80s Optimus wouldn’t have needed to say? Huh. Feels nice.
Good news! There was barely a plot at all, that I remember. Everyone is trying to win the tournament in order to save the world? Something like that. I just know I always picked Xavier because 10 year old me thought he looked the most bad ass.
What? WHY?!?
nope
I still own Eternal Champions, for my Sega. Liked it, but basing a movie off of something that I doubt many remember or played at all? Wow.
I’m guessing the discussion was, “Let’s make a Sega Cinematic Universe to compete with Nintendo’s.”
I’m also going to give 1:1 odds that there are plans for an Altered Beast movie.
I hope it has the movement pad in it
