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Capcom to Dabble in Movie Production

Published by Kaonashi December 30th, 2006 in News.

Japanese video game megacompany Capcom has thrown its hat in the ring by announcing that they’re producing an original Street Fighter movie in partnership with Hyde Park Entertainment, due in 2008. Let’s hope that this is better than the abysmal 1994 Jean-Claude VanDamme shitfest, but I’m not holding my breath. Yes, I know that the Resident Evil series has done fairly well in movie form, but in general, video game movies suck.

Capcom has already licensed film rights for Onimusha and Devil May Cry, and may do the same for other hit games such as Dead Rising, which incidentally is what I got for Christmas and am playing right now. Although it would be cool to see Dead Rising as a movie, it really wouldn’t be very different from Dawn of the Dead, since the game is based on that movie (though they don’t want to admit it).

Furthermore, The Hollywood Reporter mentions that Capcom has hired Germaine Gioia to serve in the newly created post of senior vp licensing in its Los Angeles office. She will liaison with Hollywood to find properties that can work as Capcom games.

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1 Bruce Darren Acosta Jun 4th, 2007 at 9:56 pm

MEGAMAN LIVE ACTION MOVIE.

Capcom would be intrested on working the live action version of Megaman with a Hollywood film company Warner Bros Original Films and Crystal Sky Pictures.
Megaman will be a good idea as a PG rated movie as the plot will centers around Megaman and his comrades
are on the mission to save their creator Dr Light who has been kidnapped by Dr Wily but they get sunk into a Time Travelling Key that takes them to modren day New York to befriends with two teenagers and a help from the Professer that helps them go back home to
save Dr Light and the World from a cyborg Wily and his robots.Tim Burton could direct this film.
This could be lame but this is just my story.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.

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