An official website is up for the upcoming Streetfighter: The Legend of Chun Li, which is the second theatrical offering based on the popular fighting video game.
There’s not much to the site yet, but it has a blog to follow and the cast listing and some storyboard art from the film.
The movie stars Kristin Kreuk (Eurotrip, Smallville) as Chun Li, Chris Klein (American Pie, We Were Soldiers) as Nash, Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile, The Whole Nine Yards) as Balrog, and Neal McDonough (Minority Report, Walking Tall) as Bison.
The film being directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (Exit Wounds, Doom) and written by Justin Marks, who we recently covered as being the new writer for Hack/Slash (see ‘Hack/Slash’ Gets Its Marks’). It’s looking at a 2009 release.
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That’s weird, I was just writing a review/preview of the Doctor Who episode ‘Voyage of the Damned’ (due on Sci-Fi on the 18th) and I mentioned Kylie Minogue’s role (as Cammy) in the 1994 Street Fighter film (she was also in Bio-Dome and that, oddly enough, was the end of her Hollywood career) and I had no idea there was a new movie on its way.
I almost called it a ‘new version’ but the source material gives plenty of scope to make completely different movies. In 1994, they made it a Jean-Claude van Damme vehicle (he played Guile) and militarised a lot of the characters. This time it looks much more like they’re trying to capture the spirit of the game (and Guile isn’t even in it, in any form). Even with the limited information so far available, this new movie looks far more promising…
Comment by Matthew — April 11, 2008 @ 12:06 pm
Michael Clarke Duncan is going to make a great Balrog.
Comment by Campbell — April 11, 2008 @ 12:49 pm
No Guile? No Ken/Ryu combo? No Sagat?! Maybe they plan these characters as surprises, or maybe they just don’t have the same love for 1992 that I do. I leave it at this… No “Hadouken” = No Sale. Either way, Raul Julia completely owns Neal McDonough when it comes to Bison.
Comment by Movies At Midnight — April 11, 2008 @ 1:19 pm
I’m still expecting/hoping that this will turn out to be the most elaborate April Fools hoax ever to grace the internet…
Comment by NeverWanderer — April 12, 2008 @ 9:08 pm
it could be good, give it a chance, doa was surprising good, nobody saw it but looked great.
Comment by korollocke — August 15, 2008 @ 10:09 pm