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Street Fighter should be a home run. Fighters from all over the world competing in a martial arts tournament, all with different fighting styles and signature moves. Some with ulterior motives. Enter The Dragon and Bloodsport with the deep lore of decades of video games, and quite a lot of goodwill from people of a certain age.
Street Fighter II competitions on the SNES were a college dorm room staple for many.
Yet they simply can’t get it right. Every time, creatives need to re-shape everything in their own image has reared its head. Look at the 1994 film with Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Kylie Minogue, and Ming-Na Wen. Or the 2009 attempt Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li with Kristin Kreuk.
A new version doesn’t look like it has an easier route to the screen. Back in June Australian filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk To Me) exited the project. Since then it has been in search of a new director.
Now online scooper DanielRPK says that Bad Trip director Kitao Sakurai will take on the project for Legendary Pictures and Capcom.
The brothers blamed scheduling, as the required production schedule was clashing with their A24 project Bring Her Back.
Worldwide, more than 200,000 arcade cabinets and 15 million software units of all versions of Street Fighter II were sold, grossing an estimated $10 billion in total revenue, making it one of the top three highest-grossing video games of all time.
It was also Capcom’s best-selling single software game for the next two decades, its best-selling game on a single platform, and the highest-selling third-party game on the SNES.
Street Fighter II is regarded as one of the greatest video games of all time and the most important and influential fighting game ever made. Its launch is seen as a revolutionary moment within its genre, credited with popularizing the fighting genre during the 1990s.
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