Inferno Entertainment has commenced pre-sales on the $12m English-language video game adaptation King Of Fighters.

Gordon Chan (The Medallion) will direct the Matrix-like sci-fi action title and filming is scheduled to start in Taiwan on September 15.

Taiwan's Double Edge Entertainment, LA-based Convergence Entertainment, US outfit Axis Entertainment and China's Enlight Pictures have assembled the project.

The story revolves around an alliance between the last surviving descendant of a Japanese clan, a martial arts expert and a CIA agent who try to stop an evil warrior from wreaking havoc in a fighting tournament that takes place in an alternative dimension.

Bobby Sheng, Tim Kwok and Joseph Chou are producing.

SNK will launch a new version of its bestselling video game that inspired the film to coincide with the theatrical release.

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