Street Fighter (October 16th 2026)

[ZariusTwo]

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“Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don’t, it’s GAME OVER!”

The Legendary deal, now official, was reported to be in talks on Aug. 18 and comes after its output deal with Sony expired at the end of 2024. Legendary’s former partner Warner Bros. will continue to distribute key franchises such as the eventual sequel to the nearly $1 billion hit A Minecraft Movie, as well as 2026’s third Dune and 2027’s Godzilla x Kong: Supernova.

The Street Fighter movie has a sprawling cast, including Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Andrew Koji as Ryu, Callina Liang as Chun-Li, Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i as Akuma, David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, Cody Rhodes as Guile, Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki, Eric André as Don Sauvage, Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim, with Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as Balrog and Jason Momoa as Blanka.

It also stars Orville Peck as Vega, Olivier Richters as Zangief, Hirooki Goto as E. Honda, Rayna Vallandingham as Juli, Alexander Volkanovski as Joe, Kyle Mooney as Marvin and Mel Jarnson as Cammy.

[neatoman]

Joe? Joe is in this movie? One of the four Street Fighter 1 characters to never come back for any other game is in this movie?

[IMJ]

I don't know at this point if this or Mortal Kombat can ever be anything but a B-grade flick with a C-Grade cast.

[Andrew NDB]

When they first started announcing the SF cast I was like, "Oh wow... they've really got something going here." But then as some of the other names started coming out later on it became pretty clear that this is basically just a big joke.

[sdp]

I remember being very excited for The Legend of Chun Li since the original movie had been such a laughing stock on the internet for years, surely they were going to understand how to make a correct live action movie. It was so bad. I can actually enjoy the original movie, it's silly but fun.
I just don't see how they can do a good SF movie unless it's some indie stuff like that legend of akuma official fanfilm that came out a while ago. I don't think the casting is too off though, I could buy most of those as their characters.

[Andrew NDB]

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OK... OK, not bad. I wasn't feeling 50 Cent at all (at least, now, in 2025 with how he looks) when announced, but it looks like they're trying here.

[chad]

The actor playing Dan Hibiki revealed the wigs for Rhodes’ Guile and Momoa’s Blanka on his IG Stories.

https://x.com/FutureBoyWho2/status/1969793500586868943

[Original TMNT Cartoon Fan]

If it takes place in 1993 rather than 1991, will Zangief dance Kalinka with a fictionalized Boris Yeltsin instead? :)

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[neatoman]

If it takes place in 1993 rather than 1991, will Zangief dance Kalinka with a fictionalized Boris Yeltsin instead? :)

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... If so, you think there's gonna be a joke about Russia must have had at least five presidents by the mid-2020's?

[chad]

Noah Centineo and Callina Liang on set as Ken and Chun-Li.

https://x.com/Vitaly778513683/status/1970436200994648300

[TigerClaw]

Sneak Peak of Street Fighter, It was shown during The Game Awards today.

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[Coola Yagami]

i noticed El Fuerte got a cameo near the end. The kickboxer guy might be Adon?

[IMJ]

Oh it's gonna be baaaadddd....

They also really need to find a way to cast these guys. Make Ryu believable and jacked.

That looked like.... bad fanfilm material.

[Coola Yagami]

Yeah... the costumes and whatnot look bad.

I think they're going full 'THIS IS BASED ON A VIDEO GAME, YOU GUYS' with this one.

Ugh... the first one tried to take itself too seriously and ended up being camp. This is one is purposely leaning into the cheese.

[IMJ]

I think it's become very clear that peak Street Fighter on film was the SFII Animated Movie of the 90's. They are never going to surpass that.

Although that's a pretty high bar given that they are casting skinny weirdos with no real muscle tone as Ken and Ryu over and over.

And Bison is supposed to be an absolutely jacked fighter with a tapered body - intimidating before he even reveals that he has psionic powers. And they put the crazy guy from The Dark Knight in that role? They put the living Polka Dot in that role? They put the soft spoken scientist from Blade Runner who gets broken internally from one hit in that role?

[Andrew NDB]

Miiiiight end up being fun but yeesh... idk...

[Xav]

And Bison is supposed to be an absolutely jacked fighter with a tapered body - intimidating before he even reveals that he has psionic powers. And they put the crazy guy from The Dark Knight in that role? They put the living Polka Dot in that role? They put the soft spoken scientist from Blade Runner who gets broken internally from one hit in that role?Raul Julia wasn't jacked and ended up being the best part of the 1994 film.

[Coola Yagami]

Raul Julia wasn't jacked and ended up being the best part of the 1994 film.

True but he was based on SF2 Bison, who while jacked was not as super-jacked as the Alpha series and any game afterwards.

[Andrew NDB]

I'm mostly impressed they made the Vega guy look OK on film. There is literally no reason you would cast that guy if appearance or voice or anything was a factor. Hopefully the mask stays on for the whole movie. Even as a kid I got it... he's a super vain, cocky Spaniard with a cool Jason mask and Freddy glove. Also, possibly gay (I mean, we were kids... we would talk, but I genuinely think Capcom was going for that). But fun to play as if you were good with him.

But as someone with an eye for such things because I do such things... this does seem like a slightly elevated fan film who got a little backing. Backing enough to get backing for bigtime wirework. They're basically selling "we have a budget enough to do a ton of wirework here!" As in, people getting yanked around from hits with practical effects and not CGI. But a lot of very obvious cheap gel lighting.

I do a lot of cheap gel lighting. We smell our own.

[sdp]

The characters look more like cosplayers than I would've thought, but it seems they're not going for a realistic take on Street Fighter. I think they're going for a very stylized over substance. In fact I am going to guess storywise won't be much deeper than SFII The Animated movie, just something that's there for people to understand there's a bad guy but they won't go their way to explain lore or anything, just cool set pieces.
I think it can succeed if they go that route, if they go say the Mortal Kombat reboot route trying to actually tell a story and fail then it'll bomb.

But let's not forget we're living in the Video Game Hollywood era now that superhero movies are dead, next year we're getting Mario, Silent Hill (2), Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat 2, we just got FNAF2, then the year after we're getting Zelda, Sonic 4 among others i'm forgetting. Writers finally know how to make a decent to great video game movie.

[IMJ]

Raul Julia wasn't jacked and ended up being the best part of the 1994 film.

Being "the best part" of a $#!(fest of a movie isn't really a victory. Besides, even if that were true it affects nothing about the ongoing horrible casting of Bison on film.

[sdp]

Last year I watched the original SF movie for the third time in my life, as a kid I thought it was weird and didn't think about it again, as a teenager I thought it was amazing in a campy way and now as an adult I see it as neither horrible or great, it's interesting in how some of their odd choices worked and others didn't.

I also watched The Legend of Chun-Li for the second time in my life. First time as a teenager I thought it was bad, now as an adult I thought it was bad. The thing is it plays itself like a serious movie and it's just awful. At least the Van Damme movie has self aware moments that worked.

I am surprised how both movies actually have a bunch of easter eggs from the games either through dialogue or subtle scenes. But for a better debate. Street Fighter II The Animated movie, which soundtrack is better, Japanese or American?
I feel I'm biased since I watched the american soundtrack so many times it's weird to hear the japanese one, but it's just so much better.

[IMJ]

Nothing, absolutely nothing beats KMFDM ripping through the speakers while Chun-Li truly fights for her life against Vega in the apartment.

[Stu_Padasso]

It reminds me of the Kung Fury short films. Silly nostalgia that doesn’t take itself too seriously. And who are we to judge? This is a Ninja Turtles forum after all.

And Bison is supposed to be an absolutely jacked fighter with a tapered body - intimidating before he even reveals that he has psionic powers. And they put the crazy guy from The Dark Knight in that role? They put the living Polka Dot in that role? They put the soft spoken scientist from Blade Runner who gets broken internally from one hit in that role?

Fair enough. But there have been plenty of actors that have been jacked up on “rice and tuna” for their roles. Charisma goes a long way too. It’s hard to tell from what little we see in the trailer due to the lighting, but I’ll rewatch it and tell you what I think of it…

On Tuesday.

R.I.P. Raul.

[Prowler]

This looks like sh*t.

[IMJ]

What I don't understand is how they can make bangers like "American Ninja", "Bloodsport", and "Big Trouble in Little China" in the 80's, yet they can't figure out how to meld the sensibilities of those into a Street Fighter live action movie.

[Xav]

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[drgon78]

Looks interesting to me.

[Barkworm]

Honestly? This looks great. Stupid fun, what else would you want from a videogame adaptation?

[Andrew NDB]

I never realized this was going to be a period piece set in the 90s. That gives it a little extra charm, I guess.

[TheUltimateBum]

I've only seen a few trailers, and this does look like fun. I love the 94 live-action Street Fighter movie a whole lot and it's one of my favorite movies of all time due to how 66 Batman-esque and cartoony it is (the SFII games were always more in the cartoony spectrum for me with all the colorful characters and some of the silly stuff like the animation when a character is dizzy, whereas Mortal Kombat had a more realistic look, which is why I like more tongue-in-cheek for SF rather than extremely serious), and I dunno if the new one will surpass it, but it certainly feels miles ahead of some of the anime SF stuff (the pre-SFIV anime movies just felt way too draggy for me, animation may have been good for at least one of them, but I was just bored by it all) and Legend of Chun Li (which is an example as to why an 'extremely serious and dark' SF thing doesn't work IMO). I'm still cautious about it, but it doesn't look bad so far.

[Andrew NDB]

It reminds me of the Kung Fury short films. Silly nostalgia that doesn’t take itself too seriously. And who are we to judge? This is a Ninja Turtles forum after all.

I can't believe I missed an invocation of Crisler's Law (https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Crisler%27s+Law).

[ZariusTwo]

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[Andrew NDB]

Anyone watch it? I'm seeing a lot of "Worst movie I've ever seen" kind of comments around the internet.

[sdp]

I've actually been seeing the opposite comments, it seems like a basic plot movie with fun scenes and references, a popcorn movie, nothing more nothing less. Which is why the divided opinions.

[Coola Yagami]

It's a lot of fun and keeps a lot of the more modern day lore, something the original movie couldn't do since back then the only lore was the game endings and SNES instruction books.

The worst portrayed characters were Dhalsim (sassy bitch), Guile (Cody Rhodes playing Cody Rhodes) and Bison... especially Bison.

50 Cent WAS Balrog/Mike Tyson. Roman killed it as Akuma. Chun Li was great but could done without the thirsy co-worker.

[Andrew NDB]

It's a lot of fun and keeps a lot of the more modern day lore, something the original movie couldn't do since back then the only lore was the game endings and SNES instruction books.

Pretty sure there was extensive Street Fighter manga by then in Japan, no?

[Coola Yagami]

Pretty sure there was extensive Street Fighter manga by then in Japan, no?

Yeah but a lot of it was random stuff other than the usual 'Bison is evil, Chun Li and Guile hate him' stuff. Like in the old manga it dealt with Bison experimenting with some new drug, and in that take Charlie was the one it was tested it on which caused his death. I believe in that version Ryu was friends with some kids that worked in a restaurant.

Then the animated movie was out and that would eventually add to the lore of the future games.

And ugh... those Malibu comics.

[drgon78]

I like the movie, though it does feel like the middle of a story like the 2nd movie in a trilogy. Too bad the movie is doing bad, really would have liked a sequel.

[ZariusTwo]

Street Fighter definitely wasn't as dumb as some have been saying, I thought the plot was pretty compelling, and even the dumbest moments earned earnest pay offs

Also very refreshing to see Bison and his team win, brave and confident choice.

[neatoman]

I've seen this movie now, it's... Yeah, it's pretty terrible. Weirdly enough the animated parts are decent but when the movie switches into live-action, it just becomes a weird farce.

[oldmanwinters]

I saw it.

Wasn't the worst thing ever, but I thought it should have been a lot better.

I felt like Mortal Kombat II from earlier this year was the superior film for its use of an actual tournament structure. Plus, both movies make the flashy egotistic-but-insecure wanna-be jokester the star of the film (Johnny Cage/Ken Masters).

Titmouse Studio did a nice job on the animated flashbacks.

There were some moments where it felt they were trying too hard to copy the 1994 film, of all choices. Especially when Chun Li finally confronts Bison and a Tuesday is mentioned.

Best live-action fight was probably Ryu vs. E.Honda (which was something of an exhibition bout)

Who the heck is "Joe" and why was he good enough to reach the Finals but not worthy enough to be more than cannon-fodder for Akuma?

I suppose Dan was done pretty well.

Blanka was too goofy but fun to watch roll around.

Dhalsim looked amazing but felt like he was in the film by contractual obligation rather than mandated by the storyline.

Guile's motivation and character were really confusing to me.

50 Cent looked amazing as Balrog but probably way too old for the part, and after his big scene I don't think he was heard from again.

The dual villain arcs with Bison and Akuma was an interesting way to frame the plot, especially with the contrast of Ryu and Ken's separate journeys which ultimately come into conflict.

The tension between Ryu and Ken wasn't done especially well. They'd have their feud interrupting by a bonding moment then be feuding again over a slightly different angle than before.

I don't mind the villains winning, but the cliffhanger ending just didn't feel fully earned to me.

I wish the movie had embraced from the beginning that strong fighters in his universe are capable of ki-blasts/energy projection attacks. Ryu and Akuma are the only established fighters capable of Hado energy mastery with Bison using technology to tap into those powers. Ken knows about the fireballs but struggles to find the confidence to use it (Ryu's fault apparently?). I don't think Dan ever attempts to squeeze any one out. Guile could do the famous Flash Kick, but without the energy effect. Dhalsim never tries to breath fire. Blanka alone has his electricity attacks because he was "raised by eels."

[TylerD]

I saw it.

Wasn't the worst thing ever, but I thought it should have been a lot better.

I felt like Mortal Kombat II from earlier this year was the superior film for its use of an actual tournament structure. Plus, both movies make the flashy egotistic-but-insecure wanna-be jokester the star of the film (Johnny Cage/Ken Masters).

Titmouse Studio did a nice job on the animated flashbacks.

There were some moments where it felt they were trying too hard to copy the 1994 film, of all choices. Especially when Chun Li finally confronts Bison and a Tuesday is mentioned.

Best live-action fight was probably Ryu vs. E.Honda (which was something of an exhibition bout)

Who the heck is "Joe" and why was he good enough to reach the Finals but not worthy enough to be more than canon-fodder for Akuma?

I suppose Dan was done pretty well.

Blanka was too goofy but fun to watch roll around.

Dhalsim looked amazing but felt like he was in the film by contractual obligation rather than mandated by the storyline.

Guile's motivation and character were really confusing to me.

50 Cent looked amazing as Balrog but probably way too old for the part, and after his big scene I don't think he was heard from again.

The dual villain arcs with Bison and Akuma was an interesting way to frame the plot, especially with the contrast of Ryu and Ken's separate journeys which ultimately come into conflict.

The tension between Ryu and Ken wasn't done especially well. They'd have their feud interrupting by a bonding moment then be feuding again over a slightly different angle than before.

I don't mind the villains winning, but the cliffhanger ending just didn't feel fully earned to me.

I wish the movie had embraced from the beginning that strong fighters in his universe are capable of ki-blasts/energy projection attacks. Ryu and Akuma are the only established fighters capable of Hado energy mastery with Bison using technology to tap into those powers. Ken knows about the fireballs but struggles to find the confidence to use it (Ryu's fault apparently?). I don't think Dan ever attempts to squeeze any one out. Guile could do the famous Flash Kick, but without the energy effect. Dhalsim ever tries to breath fire. Blanka alone has his electricity attacks because he was "raised by eels."

Thanks for the breakdown. I plan on seeing it as well

My only problem with these movies is they go for actors rather than martial artists. I guess Cody Rhodes at least does wrestling so he does a form of fighting , but overall I wish they would get other guys. Like Johnny cage for example in MK2. I didn’t mind the actor , but go for a guy like Scott Adkins or something that can do kicks and splits and stuff. Rather than an actor who can barely move and needs stunt doubles for even basic kicks.

The original street Fighter was cheesy as hell, but at least Van Damme was in his prime and could deliver some awesome kicks.

[sdp]

I wish I hadn't read some of the spoilers but I thought it's Street Fighter, I don't mind, but I guess I do lol some interesting choices I would've preferred to have watched on screen


Who the heck is "Joe" and why was he good enough to reach the Finals but not worthy enough to be more than cannon-fodder for Akuma?

Blanka alone has his electricity attacks because he was "raised by eels."

Joe is from Street Fighter 1. I've always been obsessed with that game since for the longest time it had no official port and was never included in collections. I love all the SF1 cast, Geki is my favorite

Is the Blanka eel official lore? I remember as a kid that's how I believed he had those powers, but I don't know if i read it in some magazine, if someone told me since I was likely too young to read magazines or what

[Barkworm]

I'm pretty sure the Blanka/eels thing was in the SNES instructions for SFII.

[neatoman]

I'm pretty sure the Blanka/eels thing was in the SNES instructions for SFII.

I am aware of that explanation for his appearance and powers, I always thought that was kinda stupid (not as stupid the idea that Dhalsim could breathe fire because he eats a lot of curry though, pretty obvious thing to retcon). I like to imagine that Blanka just thinks his powers come directly from eels and that he's really just using his ki to create electric current, like when Ryu does the Denjin Hadouken.

[Andrew NDB]

Joe is from Street Fighter 1. I've always been obsessed with that game since for the longest time it had no official port and was never included in collections.

Of course it was. It's part of the "Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection" I got for PS4.

[oldmanwinters]

Of course it was. It's part of the "Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection" I got for PS4.

And I suppose it got its first re-release way back in 2006 in the Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.

I remember that game being really hard to play.

[Andrew NDB]

I was only ever able to play the old PC version as a kid that I remembered fit on a single 5.6" floppy disk. Never saw it anywhere else and I checked a bunch of arcades. For a while I thought the first game was "Fighting Street" or "Fighting Streets," some arcade game I found.

You know the real missing gem with Street Fighter? Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight.

[TylerD]

I was only ever able to play the old PC version as a kid that I remembered fit on a single 5.6" floppy disk. Never saw it anywhere else and I checked a bunch of arcades. For a while I thought the first game was "Fighting Street" or "Fighting Streets," some arcade game I found.

You know the real missing gem with Street Fighter? Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight.

Damn that’s going back lol. Takes me back to the days of Double Dragon. Shortly after Streets of Rage and Final Fight (my timeline might be off here but that reminds me of my childhood)

[Xav]

And I suppose it got its first re-release way back in 2006 in the Capcom Classics Collection Vol. 2 for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.I think the first emulated version was in 2003 in Capcom Arcade Hits Vol. 1.

[oldmanwinters]

You know the real missing gem with Street Fighter? Street Fighter 2010: The Final Fight.

I became a big fan of that one as an adult re-discovering cheap NES carts. The final boss run can be a bit of a bear if you lose your power-ups though!

[triplexxx]

Just saw last night with friends, was pretty good for what it was I suppose, classic story of phony fighting tournament with ulterior purposes, along with stories of redemption plus revenge, and of course open-ended ending for sequel.

[TylerD]

Just saw last night with friends, was pretty good for what it was I suppose, classic story of phony fighting tournament with ulterior purposes, along with stories of redemption plus revenge, and of course open-ended ending for sequel.

In your opinion is it better or worse than mortal kombat (the new ones)

[triplexxx]

In your opinion is it better or worse than mortal kombat (the new ones)Keeping both franchises on their own plane of existence, I suppose they both had their share of good qualities, authentic factors relating to the games, delving deep into a good amount of characters while lacking depth for a few (which can probably be made up for in the sequels), along with their fair share of corny humor...maybe Street Fighter could have been a little less corny.

[TheUltimateBum]

I just checked the movie. It was alright. I did like it way more than the animated movie (despite the animation and fight choreography, I just felt it dragged a lot), and definitely waaaaay more than Legend of Chun Li (downright torture), but I don't think it quite reached the cartoony, Batman 66-esque fun of the 1994 live-action movie and there were a few gripes I had. The girlfriend loved it though, so we might watch it again.

[neatoman]

Something that struck me about this movie is that surprisingly little of the actual tournament is shown. Most of the fights just happen because of something off on the other side or because something stupid happens, like the bar scene. I think most of the actual tournament fights happen off-screen.

And I guess it's adorably naive that they actually think this awful movie is going to get a sequel, what with the cliffhanger of Bison taking Akuma off for experimentation. There's so much bullcrap in this movie that I'm pretty damn sure they could have managed to fit... Whatever the hell think they're gonna get to do with another one... Into this one if they just cut it down.

[Coola Yagami]

Something that struck me about this movie is that surprisingly little of the actual tournament is shown. Most of the fights just happen because of something off on the other side or because something stupid happens, like the bar scene. I think most of the actual tournament fights happen off-screen.

And I guess it's adorably naive that they actually think this awful movie is going to get a sequel, what with the cliffhanger of Bison taking Akuma off for experimentation. There's so much bullcrap in this movie that I'm pretty damn sure they could have managed to fit... Whatever the hell think they're gonna get to do with another one... Into this one if they just cut it down.

Most of the Street Fighter tournaments had some sort of ulterior motive in the games, and just because a character is on the roster, it doesn't mean they were actually in it. Especially when the games are now having 30-40 characters. I mean it's a video game, of course we just see the tournament side.

That said, I would have liked at least to have seen the Vega/Guile match and whoever went against Zangief. They serve no narrative purpose, but it's what we want to see.

This a movie I wouldn't have minded having an extra hour.