According to this story by the Hollywood Reporter, Tecmo's Dead or Alive is the lastest videogame franchise to be adapted for the big screen. The movie, targeted for a fall 2004 release (it is mentioned that Dead or Alive 4 will be released around the same time), is described as "Charlie's Angels" meets "Enter the Dragon". Impact Pictures, co-founded by Mortal Kombat and Resident Evil director Paul W.S. Anderson, is producing. Anderson won't be directing.

The four voluptuous girls in the movie are invited by Fame Douglas to partake in the 'Dead or Alive' world fighting tournament on an exotic island," Bolt said. "Like we did with 'Resident Evil,' we will remain faithful to the essence of the game franchise but create an original story that will play to a broader audience." There will be also beach volleyball sequences with "babes in bikinis," according to Anderson, as the movie license also includes Tecmo's current Xbox best seller "Dead or Alive Xtreme Beach Volleyball," a spinoff of its fighting franchise.