During spring 2001, Sammo Hung commited to do a movie adaptation of Soul Calibur and had Jackie Chan in mind to star. At first everything seem to be going well, Sammo was given a $50 million budget and backed up by Namco. Sammo's official website announced their plans regarding Soul Calibur, but after a year later nothing developed. Eventually Sammo's official website removed their announcement and Soul Calibur was presumed cancelled. Unofficial sources suggests that Sammo had lost interest in creating the movie after Jackie Chan couldn't commit a schedule to create the movie. Sammo had forfeited his rights to produce the movie and was taken by an American producer.

Warren Zide's Anthem Pictures has since acquired the rights to adapt the game to film. It has been stated that the game's story "revolves around two warriors who are chosen by Shaolin monks to recover and destroy a powerful sword that has fallen into the hands of an evil prince who plans to use it to open the gates of hell and destroy the world."

However, other than the copyrights, it provides no further information. The teaser website has since not released any new information in almost two years since its appearance. The only change is the year release date has been updated (currently 2007), otherwise there's no mention of any real developments. It's speculated by many that the Soul Calibur movie has been "put on the shelf" once again and that the official website is merely an abandoned web page. To further support the speculation, Namco has yet to make any official announcements of Soul Calibur's movie status.

Click here to check out the official site. Don't expect to find too much though.