Why Don't Someone Make a GOOD Double Dragon movie?

[Chuck Conry]

I love movies and I have always loved the video game version of Double Dragon. Didn't like the cartoon or the first attempt at a live action movie. But I'd love a rated R version based on more the arcade/nes version of the game.

Think Deadbeat at Dawn with a bigger budget.

Matter of fact, a lot of Beat em up scrollers would make good movies. Imagine a Final Fight, Bad Dudes, or River City Ransom movie!

[Mozenrath]

I feel like it could definitely be done, and Double Dragon's a franchise where you can definitely take liberties with it, since it's never been that strict with its tone, etc.

If you were only going to make a movie out of one of them, I feel like Final Fight would offer the most material, if for no other reason than you have Cody, Guy, and Haggar, so you can bounce them off of each other a bit more than just BimmyBilly and Jimmy, plus the whole aspect of one of them being the mayor of a city that's obviously really corrupt.

That isn't to say you couldn't do Double Dragon still, you'd just need to come up with enough to flesh it out, whereas Final Fight starts off with more to milk for it.

[Feyrhausen]

Isnt it a mostly dead property? It would have some nostalgia for older fans but no name value for the vast majority of movie audiences.

Because now studios only want big name properties that they can endlessly remake and reboot because trying something new is hard.

Maybe if there is a big new video game and they can do a big multimedia tie in push.

[Kevin Hamilton]

There's not much there honestly. Gang abducts woman, brothers fight EVERYONE to save woman, then fight each other.

It's a blast of a game, but no real story to tell there.

[BlackoutCreature]

1. The 1994 movie is a classic and they would never be able to top it.

2. Make a movie based on Double Dragon Neon.

[DragonMasterP]

But they did, it was just called Double Impact instead.

[Push R Truth]

Bad Dudes > Double Dragon




That's a plot that screams "make me a movie"

[BlackoutCreature]

A long time ago I had an idea for WWE Studios to make a Final Fight movie. Triple H would've been Haggar, John Cena as Cody, Evan Bourne as Guy, the Bella Twins as Poison and Roxy and the Great Khali as Andore.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

For one thing, there almost no good video game movies, how would Double Dragon warrant one when almost nothing else has?

[salz4life]

I want to see a River City Ransom movie.

[Kevin Hamilton]

An anime River City could be a lot of fun

[chrom]

Final Fight would be a fun live action movie.

Streets of Rage is getting a movie reportedly.

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Feb 22, 2023 8:31:37 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

Bad Dudes > Double Dragon




That's a plot that screams "make me a movie"

Goddamn with Hollywood bankrupt of ideas and 1980’s nostalgia waves rising and falling this should really happen.

Just make the movie poster that screenshot, but with whatever big name actor they get to play the main bad dude.

[Rumble McSkirmish]

Feb 22, 2023 10:07:09 GMT -5 Kevin Hamilton said:

An anime River City could be a lot of fun

That would be awesome, especially if they use Kay-Yu's character designs from the River City Girls series.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Fantastic idea.

Do it.

[Lizuka #BLM]

If I were doing a Double Dragon movie I'd probably center it around Marian's character development from getting kidnapped every week to her River City Girls legendary abs.

[FinalGwen]

Honestly put the scripts of Streets Of Fire and The Warriors in a blender, piece them together like a jigsaw, and you'll end up with most of the 90s beat em ups.

[The Dark Order Inferno]

Because the string of bad ports, spinoffs and sequels has put a serious damper on nostalgia for it. If they'd had tighter quality control, the premise would have been perfect for an early 90s action movie, with Jean Claude Van Damme or such playing one of the brothers, with the whole thing one long string of fight sequences and quips, instead we got what we got and a modern revival will never be what it was.

I think the length of it's decline is why there's so little nostalgia for it considering how big it was, kind of like Heroes. One great season, one less great, getting worse and worse and worse until people only talk about it when discussing shows that dropped off a cliff and nobody wants it back.

[Feyrhausen]

Feb 22, 2023 10:24:00 GMT -5 KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! said:

Feb 22, 2023 8:31:37 GMT -5 Push R Truth said:

Bad Dudes > Double Dragon




That's a plot that screams "make me a movie"

Goddamn with Hollywood bankrupt of ideas and 1980’s nostalgia waves rising and falling this should really happen.

Just make the movie poster that screenshot, but with whatever big name actor they get to play the main bad dude.

There are more creative ideas than ever in Hollywood. Studios have just become so big that they cant take any risks. Movies have to be guaranteed billion dollar blockbusters to satisfy the shareholders.

Taste may vary but I think we are lucky that we have as much good stuff as we do have.

[MolotovMocktail]

I’ll defend the 1994 Double Dragon movie. It worked because it didn’t take itself seriously, and served largely as a fun parody of the post-apocalyptic dystopia genre as a whole.