Across its nearly 40-year history, Street Fighter has received a multitude of adaptations across various forms of media with results that are kinda all over the place.
Legendary Entertainment is currently working on their own live-action film for Capcom’s flagship fighting game, which apparently just got its first poster.
Collider reportedly witnessed the promotional poster at the Las Vegas Licensing Expo where Legendary was showing it off.
There’s not really much to go off of said poster, however, considering it’s just a logo against a brick wall.
Fans should immediately recognize that logo as being almost identical to the one the general series uses besides some of the paint dripping down like grafitti, which could indicate it may not be the final pick either.
The brick walls are also a common motif used across the series dating all the way back to the original Street Fighter intro along with the SNES cover of Street Fighter 2, cartridge of Super Street Fighter 2 and plenty of other places.
Unfortunately, it seems that no other information was provided at the event, so things are still pretty much publicly sitting where they were last year.
The Street Fighter film project was announced in April 2023 when Legendary acquired the licensing rights to the fighting game for movies and TV shows with Capcom themselves co-producing this venture.
Brothers Danny and Michael Philippou are set to direct the feature though no date has been provided for a release as far as we can tell.
“We definitely want to pay tribute to all the Hadoukens and all the characters’ powers,” Danny told Collider last year. “I think that’s an amazing thing to be able to translate and put on screen. To create some of those impossible moves on camera I think would be incredible.”
They also discussed wanting to do right by the characters’ lore and backstory of the world with a goal of capturing the locations and stages that are iconic to the series as well.
First logo for the live-action ‘STREET FIGHTER’ movie.
Directed by RackaRacka duo Danny & Michael Philippou.
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This will mark the first live-action adaptation in eight years since the Street Fighter: Resurrection web series and 15 years out from the absolute bomb that was Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
Capcom is certainly no stranger to on-screen adaptations with the Resident Evil and Monster Hunter films as well as the more recent RE series and upcoming Devil May Cry animation.
The company also made a whopping $134 million from the 1994 Street Fighter film off of a $35 million budget, so it’s easy to see why they’d be keen at taking another swing soon.
Fighting game fans also have a different adaptation to look forward to as well with Mortal Kombat 2 finally set to come out next Fall.
Sent in by DaRyo.