Thanks to Angry Asian Man, I just found out they’re making a King of Fighters movie (in post-production according to IMDB) starring — and this is the angry part — Sean Faris as Kyo Kusangi.
Here’s a picture of Sean as a fighter and even, I guess, a king — but as you may guessed, no pictures of this dude looking anything like an Asian dude to be found anywhere on the net:
On top of this, they have Maggie Q playing Mai Shiranui, which is almost as bad as WG for Kyo! Sure, Maggie is a sweet girl with her own appeal and all, but there’s no way she fill in for the bouncy ninja. (If you think comic book artists frequently draw out of superheroines in unnecessarily sexed up positions, try looking for a picture of Mai! I had to skip a dozen pages of Google images just to make things fair for poor Maggie…)
Granted, movies based on videogames are generally bad, but do you really need to put yourself in such a deep hole to begin with?