Back in the summer time of last year, the new Street Fighter film that is still in the works lost its original directors, twin brothers Danny and Michael Philippou, although not much reason was given at the time for their departure.
Hot off the heels of the very successful Talk To Me, which became A24’s highest grossing horror film, they were brought on to direct the latest Street Fighter film, and now one of the twins has given a reason why they dropped out of the project in 2024.
“The IP stuff I would usually stay away from, not because I don’t want to do it but because I don’t want to **** it up… there’s things with such big, in-built audiences, I’d hate to let a whole bunch of people down, like ‘what the **** was that,’ ‘I’m so sorry.’,” Danny Philipou told Collider.
“That’s my nightmare, pissing off all these people, these dedicated fan members. And if we’re getting a remake, obviously the original is amazing, [prompting fears around being] talented enough,” Danny Philipou noted.
“We were developing big IP, it wasn’t horror, but Street Fighter, and we were actually really excited for that. Developing that was a lot of fun, but just finding the time for it, it just didn’t line up properly for us, and so we decided to focus on the original stuff,” he added.
Calling the original 1994 Street Fighter film ‘amazing’ seems like a stretch, but it has definitely become a cult classic for it’s camp and terrible writing, plus it still makes Capcom quite a bit of money.
Capcom continues to recognizes the original film to this very day, as the included a reference to it with M. Bison’s release in Street Fighter 6.
The new film is likely experiencing a delay, but already has a new director from The Eric Andre Show, Kitao Sakurai. Sakurai served as the director and executive producer of the The Eric Andre Show for more than a decade.
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