A movie adaptation of 1993's Sega fighting game Eternal Champions is on the way, for some reason, so get ready to watch a caveman fight a cyborg kickboxer

pcgamer.com:

While others started with Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, or Tekken, my childhood fighting game obsession was 1993's Eternal Champions. That series didn't quite have the same longevity, as it turned out, but today I am vindicated: They're making an Eternal Champions movie.

I'd forgive you if you've never heard of this particular Sega Megadrive (or Genesis) classic—to catch you up, it was basically a fighting game where characters from all throughout time came together to beat the stuffing out of each other. You could play a caveman against a 1920s mobster, or a bounty hunter from the future against a ninja from the '90s. It was very much aping Mortal Kombat, outside of that twist—it had its own equivalent of fatalities, for example—but its weird roster and fun backdrops (each stage a different time period, naturally) gave it plenty of personality.

As spotted by The Hollywood Reporter, Derek Connolly has been invited to write a script for a film based on the game, to be produced by Skydance Media in collaboration with Sega. The pedigree here is a little mixed—Connolly co-wrote Kong: Skull Island, which I thought was very good fun, but also the Jurassic World movies, and he wrote one of the early versions of the pretty disastrous Rise of Skywalker. Skydance itself has worked on everything from Top Gun: Maverick and Annihilation to The Tomorrow War and Transformers: Rise of the Beasts. So my professional opinion is that this movie might be good, or alternatively it might be bad.

It's certainly a pretty random property to resurrect at this point—the original game got a sequel in 1995, but apart from that I don't think there's been a peep from the series in nearly 30 years. You have to question how much brand recognition is left there, and I don't even know that there's much nostalgia out there for it, even if it still has a place in my heart.

But it does have a pretty fun and unique premise, which counts for a lot. The reason all those characters throughout time are