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This movie predates the 2002 year posted by imdb

posted 18 years ago by tragickingdom-1
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I too wonder how this film got passed the radar, and had I not been looking up Kitana on wikipedia I would have never saw the short note they posted that she did a film with Ho Sung Pak (Liu Kang), the Book of Swords.

This film clearly wasn't promoted here in the United States, I didn't even find any place on the internet that was selling the DVD, although I can tell it was being sold internationally, so this is where ebay comes into play and luckily there was 1 auction of the DVD up. Now I can't wait till it arrives. :D

The lack of discussion about this movie on the internet was quite puzzling as well, you would at least think Midway would mention it, but nothing. So I turn to the Usenet boards (Google Groups), and look what I find.

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.games.mk/browse_frm/thread/a945e026b736637c/072541b9c4e36633?lnk=st&q=&rnum=5&hl=en#072541b9c4e36633

A discussion that dates all the way back to 1996 that the movie was out and on its way. So from '96-'02 what took it so long to premiere, and why hasn't this film been shown in the United States?

[–] Qylecoop 15 years ago

The film was shot in 1996. I don't know what happened between 1996 and 2002. It was acquired by Fantastic Films International around 2002 and it was then re-edited and re-scored.

[–] creatorofk 15 years ago

ive never seen it but the movie is probably bad and thats why nobody wants to market it majorly

well at least it got to one or two film fests.

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[–] overninethousand 15 years ago

I just edited Wikipedia and changed the date (I'm sure I've seen before 2005, as it's claimed now).