Tekken Blood Vengeance Film was initially announced at Namco's "LevelUp" event in Dubai on May 5, 2011. A trailer premiered at the event and also was posted online shortly after. The film, inspired by the popular video game series is being supervised by Youchi Mori (Appleseed), with the screenplay written by Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop) and animation production by Digital Frontier, who produced the FMV sequences for Tekken 5 and Tekken 6. The release will arrive in late summer, also with availability in 3D. In a group interview at the LevelUp event in Dubai, attended by Christian Donlan for Eurogamer, Tekken project leader Katsuhiro Harada revealed Blood Vengeance has actually been in development since January 2010.
Harada has been very clear that this movie is not related to the live-action film and is doing whatever he can to ensure this project is distanced as much as possible from that film. "That doesn't have anything to do with it this time," Harada insisted. "We're not trying to rewrite those wrongs. Fans are always asking us for a 3D movie. This is our response to them... We want to make a movie that everyone can enjoy, though. Not just Tekken fans." Namco's Tekken team has wanted to do a 3D movie after the creation of the CG opening for Tekken 6's scenario campaign.
The film is voiced in English and Japanese with subtitles for other languages. Each character in the game tends to speak their native language. Namco has "tried as much as possible" to use the same voice actors from the games for the film. Writer Dai Sato, who had previously worked on Cowboy Bebop, is a fan of the Tekken series, and was given "quite a bit of creative freedom".