Action-Adventure Legendary/Capcom developing Street Fighter film

[Pennywise]

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Momoa and the Tariff Chief?

This movie is clipped already.

 

[Pennywise]

Momoa and the Tariff Chief?

This movie is clipped already.

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Roman, right?!

Booooo! Haven’t watched Wrestling in years, but he already sucks!

 

[Pennywise]

Jeff Sneider confirmed a writer on Brave New World worked on the script. Hmm.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Iffy on Reigns as Akuma.

They should have cast a Japanese actor.

Absolutely this.

 

[psylockolussus]

I don't know what to think of this. I'm not sure if there's a Street Fighter story worth telling in a movie. I am hoping they get the visuals right, to say the least.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

I did think Blanka when Momoa was rumoured so it makes sense.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Not familiar with Akuma. I don’t think I ever played a SF game after The New Challengers, lol. No idea if Roman Reigns can act. What’s the Tariff Chief thing?

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Not familiar with Akuma. I don’t think I ever played a SF game after The New Challengers, lol. No idea if Roman Reigns can act. What’s the Tariff Chief thing?

Oh wow! LOL

Some of us call Roman the Tariff Chief now since he came out last month as a Trump supporter in an interview.

So disappointing.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Oh wow! LOL

Some of us call Roman the Tariff Chief now since he came out last month as a Trump supporter in an interview.

So disappointing.

Oh goddamnit. I figured it probably had something to do with Cheeto Hitler but I was hopeful it was something else. What a ****ing idiot.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Pennywise]

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“They were making it so people that love the game aren’t going to be turned off by the film. That’s the scariest part of an adaptation: letting down the fanbase,” Danny says. “You have an audience to cater to.”

The brothers even got as far as planning out fight sequences and location-scouting in Thailand, but exited the project due to scheduling conflicts with “Bring Her Back” — a sliding-doors moment they understand as career growing pains.

“We were saying yes to everything, and we weren’t really factoring in time,” Michael says. Adds Danny: “But again, I still would make ‘Street Fighter.’” (Since the brothers’ exit, the adaptation has been taken off Sony’s original March 2026 release date, as the distributor’s deal with Legendary has now expired. It remains in development.)

I’ll always wonder what RackaRacka’s take on the film would have been! I’m sure it would have been awesome! Alas!

 

[Deck Rickard]

Momoa as Blanka feels like solid casting. And I will always support Andrew Koji in a lead role. Annoyed that a Trump bootlicker is in the cast but hopefully his part will be small.

I just hope they don’t do something stupid like leave out key figures in the OG cast like the recent MK movie did (as did that awful Chun-Li movie). I know it’s a big ask to include such a big group of people and give them ample screen time but it’s possible, especially if you’re also giving screen time to other characters no one cares about.

 

[Pennywise]

I do hope that Ryu and Ken are the main focus of the film, even if characters like Chun-Li, Guile, Cammy, Bison, Etc, appear.

Wouldn’t be surprised if they appeared with Blanka’s inclusion.

 

[Punisher_MAX]

Curious to see who they cast as Sagat and Zangief.

 

[Pennywise]

Momoa as Blanka feels like solid casting. And I will always support Andrew Koji in a lead role. Annoyed that a Trump bootlicker is in the cast but hopefully his part will be small.

I just hope they don’t do something stupid like leave out key figures in the OG cast like the recent MK movie did (as did that awful Chun-Li movie). I know it’s a big ask to include such a big group of people and give them ample screen time but it’s possible, especially if you’re also giving screen time to other characters no one cares about.

This was back in September 2024.

This will suck.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yeah because what everyone wants to see in a Street Fighter movie is Akuma as the main villain because “we need to save Bison for the sequel.”

Ugh.

 

[psylockolussus]

Ryu and Ken are such obvious main characters. Like I would be surprised if its Guile, Chun-Li and Cammy over those two.

Akuma, I would expect for a sequel. But he wasn't in that 90s movie.

 

[DarkKnight88]

Or they invent a completely new character for their lead ala Mortal Kombat and really piss everyone off.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Yeah because what everyone wants to see in a Street Fighter movie is Akuma as the main villain because “we need to save Bison for the sequel.”

Ugh.

I mean canonically, Akuma does come first as a main antagonist with Bison in the background a bit, but still, that character deserves a much better actor than Roman Reigns.

Dude can’t even act in his promos that he cuts.

 

[Deck Rickard]

I mean canonically, Akuma does come first as a main antagonist with Bison in the background a bit, but still, that character deserves a much better actor than Roman Reigns.

Dude can’t even act in his promos that he cuts.

Yeah like I said, I don’t know if he has any acting ability but given that he’s a wrestler and a Trumpster, it’s no surprise to hear that he sucks. So it’s pretty sad that we went from the great Raul Julia as the main villain in a SF movie to this loser. I know he was in Hobbs & Shaw but I don’t remember him speaking in it. LOL

Anyway though, if you were going to do a Ryu/Ken prequel style movie, wouldn’t it be better to make Sagat the main villain? At least he’s a bad guy everyone who played the classic game knows.

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Anyway though, if you were going to do a Ryu/Ken prequel style movie, wouldn’t it be better to make Sagat the main villain? At least he’s a bad guy everyone who played the classic game knows.

You know what, you could. And then at the end you realize that Sagat was really working for Bison and the Shadaloo stuff and that's your sequel hook.

Or you could do it like The Dark Knight and have Akuma and Sagat as your Joker and Two-Face if that makes any sense.

 

[Deck Rickard]

You know what, you could. And then at the end you realize that Sagat was really working for Bison and the Shadaloo stuff and that's your sequel hook.

Or you could do it like The Dark Knight and have Akuma and Sagat as your Joker and Two-Face if that makes any sense.

Yeah. Maybe that’s what they are going for. MAGAt Grunt seems more like he would play a physical villain with minimal dialogue (no idea if that is what Akuma is like) and maybe Sagat is the brains and they’ll hire a real actor to play him.

 

[Pennywise]

What if Bison appears, and he’s positioned as the villain, only to be taken out by Akuma like in Street Fighter II Turbo?

Remember playing that with my cousin on SNES years ago.

The inclusion of Blanka can’t rule out other characters from II appearing as I previously mentioned.

 

[Deck Rickard]

What if Bison appears, and he’s positioned as the villain, only to be taken out by Akuma like in Street Fighter II Turbo?

Remember playing that with my cousin on SNES years ago.

The inclusion of Blanka can’t rule out other characters from II appearing as I previously mentioned.

I would be pretty pissed if Bison gets killed right off the bat.