Street Fighter fans got a new look at the wild and weird new movie based on Capcom’s venerable fighting game franchise on Thursday, thanks to a new trailer that debuted on Thursday. In a longer look at Street Fighter, we see how the World Warrior Tournament comes together and just how achingly faithful filmmakers are trying to be to the games.
Legendary and Capcom’s new Street Fighter will take many of the moves of the genre-defining fighting game quite literally. In addition to the Hadoukens and the Tatsumaki Senpukyakus seen in Street Fighter‘s new trailer, we get even more over-the-top-moves, including Zangief’s Russian Suplex and Chun-Li’s Spinning Bird Kick with the Hanzashu follow-up. It looks like a blast.
The movie also looks pretty close in structure and story to another fighting game movie coming out this year, Mortal Kombat 2. Chun-Li is apparently searching the globe for combatants to take part in a fighting tournament with great importance, led by a megalomaniacal ruler, and at least one of those candidates (Ken Masters) seems reluctant to take part. One major differentiator? Street Fighter has Jason Momoa as Blanka.
Street Fighter is a throwback period piece set in 1993 (MTV is still on the air, 4 Non Blondes “What’s Up?” is a fresh karaoke pick), the same year that Capcom released Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers in arcades. The film follows estranged friends Ryu and Ken Masters, who are thrown back into brutal street-level combat when Chun-Li recruits them for the World Warrior Tournament. “Behind the contest lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past,” an official synopsis reads.
The first trailer for Street Fighter was released in December, offering a sneak peek at the action and vibes of the reboot.
Legendary and Capcom’s Street Fighter will be the third live-action film based on the fighting game franchise, following 1994’s Street Fighter starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia, and 2009’s Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, starring Kristin Kreuk.
The new Street Fighter stars Andrew Koji as Ryu, Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, and Callina Liang as Chun-Li, with Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i as Akuma, David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, Cody Rhodes as Guile, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as Balrog, Jason Momoa as Blanka, Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim, Mel Jarnson as Cammy, Orville Peck as Vega, Olivier Richters as Zangief, Hirooki Goto as E. Honda, Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki, Eric André as Don Sauvage, Rayna Vallandingham as Juli, Alexander Volkanovski as Joe, and Kyle Mooney as Marvin. Kitao Sakurai (Twisted Metal, The Eric Andre Show) is directing the film, based on a script by Dalan Musson (Captain America: Brave New World).
Street Fighter comes to movie theaters on Oct. 16.
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