‘Fatal Fury’ to affix the ranks of combating games-turned-movies

With Mortal Kombat II in film theaters and Street Fighter coming quickly, 2026 is an enormous yr for movie diversifications of combating video games. But much more are on the way in which.

According to The Hollywood Reporter, a film based mostly on SNK’s Fatal Fury is within the works at indie manufacturing banner The Arena. The firm has commissioned a script from David S. Goyer (Foundation, The Dark Knight trilogy), which can inform the story of brothers Terry and Andy Bogard. In the unique recreation, the pair are searching for vengeance in opposition to crime boss Geese Howard after he killed their adoptive father. And what higher approach to actual their vengeance than by way of a high-stakes fight match?

Fatal Fury is only one a part of Arena’s bigger plan to construct out an leisure franchise round South Town, a fictional American metropolis the place a number of of SNK’s video games happen.

Also within the works is the function movie Geese, an origin story for Geese Howard that’s reportedly impressed by The Godfather and Joker. Grant Singer (Netflix’s Reptile) is about to jot down and direct.

Arena’s plans for the world of South Town transcend movies. An animated Fatal Fury collection, titled Fatal Fury: The Vow, is in improvement from Robert Kirkman’s Skybound, which additionally makes Invincible.

Elsewhere, webtoon writer Brandon Chen is creating an Art of Fighting webtoon, which would be the first of Arena’s South Town titles to be launched.