Cast, date, director revealed for Street Fighter film

by Justin McElroy { Mar 19th 2008 at 4:00PM }

Much like how your mom's boyfriend Ralph will never be your "real dad" we're adamant that there's only one Street Fighter movie for us: The awful, awful Jean Claude van Damme vehicle released in 1994. So we have mixed feelings about a new Street Fighter film being put into production, and a slew of new information on the movie isn't making things any clearer.

We already knew that Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li stars Smallville's Kristen Kreuk in the lead role. Joining her is Michael Clarke Duncan as Balrog, Neil McDonough as M. Bison, Chris Klein as Charlie Nash and (wait for it) Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas as Vega. The flick will be directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak, whose last three films were Doom, Cradle 2 the Grave and Exit Wounds. ... Wow, we think our first paragraph just became officially not ironic. We'll find out what this cracker jack team cooks up in 2009.

Tags: Andrzej-Bartkowiak, capcom, movies, street-fighter

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)

VoLiTioN @ Mar 19th 2008 4:05PM

Same director as Doom eh?

Pass.

sifer2400 @ Mar 19th 2008 5:15PM

lol
ps vega is gay

upz @ Mar 19th 2008 5:43PM

Does anyone else find it ironic that they hired the world's ugliest man to play the world's most beautiful man?

ballistic3188 @ Mar 19th 2008 4:05PM

;_;

xFenixKnightx @ Mar 19th 2008 4:05PM

As the Chuckster would say, its gonna be turrible, just turrible!!

Imadogg @ Mar 22nd 2008 4:05AM

2 out of the first 5 posts feature a reference to Chuck! Amazing for a site like joystiq

Nigeria: Cody ChesnuTT Defense Force @ Mar 19th 2008 4:05PM

M. Bison's thumbs down illustrates my feelings perfectly.

OhJustSomeRandomGuy @ Mar 19th 2008 5:21PM

Wait...

What if it had this version of Ryu's theme? Wouldn't it be worth it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMo-VN8QM20

Snipermike @ Mar 19th 2008 4:06PM

Jean Claude Van Dam is rolling in his grave.

comtar @ Mar 19th 2008 5:37PM

Wait do you mean Jean Claude? Or Raul Julia? Remember that Raul Julia's last role was M. Bison. Which for an actor of his caliber is sad.

Snipermike @ Mar 19th 2008 5:00PM

You didn't hear about the tragic accident on the set of Timecop that took his life? At least he went young and we don't have to suffer though the later years where he would of done straight to TBS movies.

deaftly (Brawl - 1075-0467-4222) @ Mar 19th 2008 5:14PM

Well his career at least is rolling in its grave.

lvl99ultrathug @ Mar 20th 2008 12:11AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_0kKACp11Y

carg0 @ Mar 19th 2008 4:07PM

is this a theatrical release or straight-to-DVD?

Vegnagun bwf @ Mar 19th 2008 4:14PM

It's straight to awful.

carg0 @ Mar 19th 2008 6:31PM

amen to that...

Jamma @ Mar 19th 2008 6:57PM

If we're lucky, it'll be a straight to HD-DVD release

elpmis @ Mar 19th 2008 4:10PM

how well rested is the cast?

Shagittarius @ Mar 19th 2008 4:57PM

Don't you mean 'How well rested is the case?'

TomCo @ Mar 19th 2008 5:34PM

What's with all these morans?

deaftly (Brawl - 1075-0467-4222) @ Mar 19th 2008 4:15PM

Anything with the black eye'd peas = automatic fail

Vegnagun bwf @ Mar 19th 2008 4:29PM

"Let's get retarded, in here..." - The Black Eyed Peas

Hala Madrid!!! SSBB Code:3866-7729-0830 @ Mar 19th 2008 4:16PM

Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas as Vega!
That's just a slap in the face for the all Spanish people

Hala Madrid!!! SSBB Code:3866-7729-0830 @ Mar 19th 2008 4:19PM

I'm sorry for all spanish people

j. howlett @ Mar 19th 2008 9:07PM

why 'cause he is mexican and not from spain?

ChooChooCharlie (Brawl: 1504-5357-9285) @ Mar 19th 2008 4:17PM

The only saving grace of this film will be the casting of Ms. Kreuk. She MIGHT tempt me to rent it when it comes out on DVD.

Zertoss @ Mar 19th 2008 4:23PM

Spy's sappin' mah movies!

g.Park @ Mar 19th 2008 4:24PM

Casting Decision Summary:
"Michael Clarke Duncan is big AND black, so he's PERFECT!"
"Taboo has long hair, so he's PERFECT!"
"Chris Klein has a Y chromosome, so he's PERFECT!"
"Neil McDonough looks just like Geese Howard, so he's PERFECT!"
"Um, Geese Howard is from Fatal Fury. We need to cast M. Bison."
"Too late, I've already dialed the phone!"

Zertoss @ Mar 19th 2008 5:00PM

LMAO that's classic.

waynski1457 @ Mar 19th 2008 4:25PM

that cast comparison pic actually got me thinking that this might of had a chance. then i saw the director and i threw up a little in my mouth.

i_hate_mtv @ Mar 19th 2008 4:26PM

Balrog: Good
Vega: Good
Charlie: Bad
M.Bison: ..........No

aaron_k7 @ Mar 19th 2008 4:28PM

Can't be worse than DOA the Movie.

License to ill @ Mar 19th 2008 4:31PM

So are you one of the 5 people that actually saw that movie?

Vegnagun bwf @ Mar 19th 2008 4:30PM

Oh but it can try.

aaron_k7 @ Mar 19th 2008 4:34PM

I cheated and watched it on TV Links before that site got shut down. What a waste of my time...glad it didn't waste my money! I normally don't do that kind of thing, but I couldn't stand to pay for such a crappy-looking movie.

samfish @ Mar 19th 2008 5:24PM

I watched the DOA movie.

...with my PANTS DOWN.

And then I realized about 35% of the way through there t'weren't nothin' to really fap to, so I pulled them back up.

I know you all really wanted to know that.

Brian Jarrett @ Mar 19th 2008 4:31PM

Finally! Something that will make the DOA movie look decent!

eldee @ Mar 19th 2008 4:31PM

ugh..

and hollywood births another street fighter flop. It's hard to imagine them being able to make one worse than the last movie, but at least that one has the nostalgic cheese-factor going for it (and Raul Julia).

doom saber @ Mar 19th 2008 4:32PM

The casting seems worse than the Van Damne movie; the casting in the old SF movie was more logical than this film (Raul Julia was perfect as skinny bison and the guy who played Zangief, actually looked like Zangief) even though the script was garbage

Marty @ Mar 19th 2008 4:38PM

It's like it's 1994 all over again!

Vegnagun bwf @ Mar 19th 2008 4:47PM

Bad attempt to bump traffic on your website. Bad comment.

Vegnagun bwf @ Mar 19th 2008 4:55PM

Justin, be a dear and delete my comment responding to a deleted comment. prooty pls

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Mar 19th 2008 4:50PM

I'm beginning to think that, aside from the Destructoid podcast crew, I'm the only one who got the joke of the Street Fighter movie. I mean, you have M Bison painting sad clown pictures and somehow people think the movie was trying to be serious?

"To you, the day I graced your small village with my presence was the most defining day in your life. But for me, it was a Tuesday..."

Marty @ Mar 19th 2008 4:59PM

I never actually saw the movie myself, but your post makes me want to, hehe. Is that wrong?

Sir Fidlious Wong (Zeon Defense Force) @ Mar 19th 2008 5:36PM

No, it's not wrong. Trust me, if you go into it expecting camp, it's a great stupid flick. I mean, they even manage to get EVERYONE into their game uniforms by the end....

Think about Dhalsim... as a scrawny genetic scientists... to manages to strip down to loincloth by the end. It's great giggles...