I’m not sure why people still think fighting games can turn into decent movie adaptations. Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter, DoA, all of them were horrible movies. They may have had some kick-ass fighting sequences, but once anyone attempted to inject them with a plot, they all crashed to the ground. Despite that, there’s a Tekken movie moving forward, and now it has a director.

The futuristic fighting game will be helmed by Dwight Little, according to Variety. Little is best known for the Anaconda sequel, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, although more recently he’s been doing television work on 24, Bones, and Prison Break.

While the movie will maintain its fighting game origins as a sort of gladiator picture, it also will carry a plot. Little describes it as "a science fiction story set in the near future, about a rebel who rises up against the Tekken Corp. to seize freedom for his people. It's a gladiator story, but the videogame has a complicated enough storyline that it provides the template for a martial arts spectacular." Here’s hoping he’s right, or that Little decides to downplay some of the plot in favor of focusing on the martial arts.