Who doesn’t love lists? Starting this week, we’ll be bringing you a brand new regular feature in which many members of The Flickcast staff will contribute to The Flickcast Five, a list of five films, TV shows, characters, plots, or other pop culture related items that we love (or hate) the most.

This week, one of the bigger films in this year’s Summer Blockbuster season gets its national release, when Disney’s Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time hits theaters. Many know that the film is based on the classic 1989 side-scrolling game. In keeping  with the cross-genre of gaming and films we bring you our very first Flickcast Five: Video Game Movies. This time, it’s ones we love.

There have been plenty of flops in the genre, from films like Super Mario Brothers with Bob Hoskins, to Double Dragon with Scott Wolf and Alyssa Milano. While not all of them are watchable, most of them are enjoyable, and some are even accurate to the source material that we’ve spent hours, if not days and weeks, trying to complete.

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To many studios and producers in Hollywood, the word “reboot” seems to have magical properties. To them, the word means “take a failed property and wash away all the bad with a new film.” It doesn’t always end that way, when the “bad” in this instance is something as bad as Ang Lee’s Hulk, and even a Robert Downey Jr. cameo can’t wash that away.

Relentlessly, studios don’t seem to care and continue to “wash away” failed films with shiny new projects. With that in mind comes news that Warner Bros. is planning a reboot of the 1995 adaptation of Mortal Kombat. The original was certainly no Street Fighter, but it’s in no way a “classic” either.

The plan is to have newcomer Oren Uziel pen the script, with no set date on production. A reboot may not be a bad idea, considering the bad press that video game films got in the 90s, and how that seems to be changing lately with the Resident Evil and Tomb Raider films doing well financially.

The question now is “What ever happened to the third Mortal Kombat film that was set to begin production last September?” The film was originally rumored to be a reboot, with cartoon writer Sean Catherine Derek writing the script.

No word on whether that film fell apart or not, but with the recent news of Warner’s involvement, you can believe that the original project is dead.

As any video game or movie fan knows, it’s next to impossible to produce a decent movie based on a video game, let alone one based on a fighting game. Many have tried, from Mortal Kombat with Christopher Lambert to Street Fighter with Jean Claude Van Damme, and then again with Kristen Kruek. None have ever succeeded because they try to add backstory to an already luscious universe.

With that in mind comes the upcoming adaptation Tekken. The film is based on the popular Japanese fighting game of the same name. In the film, a rebel decides to go up against the evil Tekken corporation through a global fighting tournament called “Iron Fist”.

The script comes from Alan McElroy, who has penned other genre films such as Spawn, Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever, and the Wrong Turn films. The very first trailer just hit, with thanks to Teaser-Trailer.com, and it looks like it may actually be worth watching. Why? Because all we see is punching, and that’s all we really need to see in a film based on a fighting game.

Check out the trailer after the jump, and catch Tekken in select theaters later this year.

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For those who didn’t have the opportunity to come down to San Diego Comic-Con, here are some pics from my own photo journal of the event. Everything from Star Wars costumes, Street Fighter characters, gigantic booth displays and even everyone’s favorite Lou Ferrigno, it’s all here.

Enjoy. For our other photos from the Con, go here, here and here. Check out all of John’s photos after the jump.

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