New Live action Street Fighter film coming

PALGN News | Will they ever learn?

The first live action Street Fighter film is a universally reviled videogame adaptation. The producers missed the point on pretty much every level – the game series is popular for its fun representation of martial arts, yet rather than cast martial artists (or even action actors), the movie mainly consisted of useless actors and actresses like Kyle Minogue, and as a result the fight scenes were appalling. There was also seemingly contempt by the producers for the source material - characters were messed with (Blanka/Charlie) and the main character was switched from Ryu to Guile. With the relative success and popularity of the animated Street Fighter movies, which even inspired later instalments of the games, you'd think their little Van Damme 'experiment' would be put to rest for good.

Well, according to Variety, Capcom are giving it another shot anyway. The Hyde Park Entertainment group is currently working on a new live-action Street Fighter film, to be released in 2008 for the series' 20th anniversary. In a worrying move, the film will again shove Ryu to the sidelines, and will apparently focus on the exploits of Chun Li, although details of the storyline are being kept secret for now. Justin Marks, who just finished the script for the upcoming Voltron movie, will write the film.

While Street Fighter's popularity has waned in recent years – mainly because the last official game in the series was released seven years ago – it's still easily the most popular fighting game of all time, having sold over 25 million console games and 500,000 arcade units. Perhaps the best part of this news is that Capcom still acknowledges the series and its fans.

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25 Comments

Spanca

5 years ago

Will they ever learn?? Street Fighter was brilliance! If this new one has Kylie and Jean Claude then I'm there

David

5 years ago

^^You play the 'game of the movie of the game'? It had an interesting in-game font that made a '5 hit combo' especially amusing.

Cerebral

5 years ago

Kylie in the Street Fighter movie was pure class.

Ellegarden

5 years ago

Nothing so far tops dead or alive movie, the trailer looks aweful and story is worse than charlie's angels.

mrcivic

5 years ago

As long as they reproduce Chun-Li's shower scene from the animated movie...

TheAnswer

5 years ago

hmmm, who can play Chun-Li? Better be some hot actress

iorkara

5 years ago

i hope they bring back Van Damme....

ret the roman

5 years ago

mrcivic wrote

As long as they reproduce Chun-Li's shower scene from the animated movie...

I 2nd that

Sin Ogaris

5 years ago

TheAnswer wrote

hmmm, who can play Chun-Li? Better be some hot actress

It'll likely be Devon Aoki, she's Hollywoods token asian chick at the moment.

El Taco

5 years ago

mrcivic wrote

As long as they reproduce Chun-Li's shower scene from the animated movie...

Just imagining that....oh it appears my keyboard is wet.........with what is left to your imagination

Infested Jibbs

5 years ago

^classy

rodvcpetrie

5 years ago

Quite honestly my life doesn't depend on this film, so I'm not overly saddened if it doesn't turn out good.

Now if we were talking about an adaption of Splinter Cell (which is currently stuck in development), that would be a different story!

Frozencry

5 years ago

retroman wrote

mrcivic wrote

As long as they reproduce Chun-Li's shower scene from the animated movie...

I 2nd that

3rd.

Zarnoss

5 years ago

BAH!!
I remember getting all excited while lining up to see the movie with fellow mates who were hardcore streeties fans when it debuted here in Aus.
Afterwards we all went out drinking hard and couldn't believe the utter sh!t that the movie was.

I hope they do a decent job this time, but i feel that it won't.

The only movie i like where it had real life streetfighter characters was that Jackie Chan movie ( i forget the name) but he was on a cruise ship that gets overtaken by terrorists/pirates and he is fighting in the Video arcade and he bangs his head on a streetfighter 2 machine.He's dazed then he sees his combatant as guile i think and he is Ken/ryu.And go into the arsenal of all the streetfighter moves and he finishes him off with a dragon punch.
Been so long since i saw that on SBS but i remember thinking "This is the coolest thing i have ever seen!!"

Anybody know what that movie was called cause i want to buy it.

theory

5 years ago

Here's the scene on YouTube.

Bitchacho

5 years ago

OMG Theory. That's freaking hilarious!

Spanca

5 years ago

Was that Jackie Chan as Chun Li?

EvilHayama

5 years ago

Frozencry wrote

retroman wrote

mrcivic wrote

As long as they reproduce Chun-Li's shower scene from the animated movie...

I 2nd that

3rd.

YES

Quote

It'll likely be Devon Aoki, she's Hollywoods token asian chick at the moment.

NO

Also, shower scene + jackie chan as chun li, NONONO

jecht_raiden

5 years ago

please not Devon Aoki, she just doesnt suit Chun Li. Chun Li is also Chinese.
Besides Devon cant play her for another reason, she's not wealthy enough, Chun Li is the "richest" person in the Street Fighter series because of her huge assets.

theory

5 years ago

Zhang Ziyi!!!

Although she is quite thin, her (coreographed) fighting skills and her beauty make her my stand out candidate for the role of Chun Li.

Solid_Snake

5 years ago

There's going to be a new SF movie? I didn't even know there was a first one.