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"Variety says new film will focus on Chun Li; 2008 release targeted to celebrate series' 20th anniversary. By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot Posted Oct 30, 2006 5:18 pm PT Street Fighter's previous cracks at the big screen haven't fared so well. It debuted as a lighthearted theme for a fight scene in Jackie Chan's tepid manga-to-movie effort City Hunter and then received a movie of its own in 1994 with Street Fighter. The action flick starring "The Muscles from Brussels" Jean-Claude Van Damme in the lead role as the American fighter, Guile, was poorly received and served as an unfortunate swan song for the career of Raul Julia, who played M. Bison. Capcom apparently hopes that the third time is the charm, as film industry trade publication Variety is reporting that the publisher has teamed up with production company Hyde Park Entertainment (What's the Worst That Could Happen?, Shopgirl) to make another feature film for the fighting franchise. Slated for 2008 (to coincide with Street Fighter's 20th anniversary), the film will reportedly feature a script penned by Justin Marks, who is also handling the big-screen adaptation of Voltron. The film will be a joint venture between Capcom and Hyde Park Entertainment, but the Variety report mentions no actors or crewmembers that have been attached to the project yet. A Capcom of America representative would not comment on the report. "

Zhang Ziyi ftw.

I didn't know a Voltron movie was on the way.

10/31/2006 3:43:40 AM

I used to bounce on top of everybody with chun li

10/31/2006 4:33:37 AM

SONIC BOOM!

10/31/2006 6:44:04 AM

when the original street fighter came out I laughed so hard when I heard Van Damme was playing the all american Guile... fucker doesn't even sound american

10/31/2006 10:02:39 AM

god i hope they optioned Uwe Boll to direct this, that'd make it just fucking perfect

10/31/2006 11:10:30 AM

Street Fighter II the animated movie is all you need.

10/31/2006 11:27:21 AM

Needs more Bruce Campbell

10/31/2006 11:48:13 AM

^^^
qft

10/31/2006 11:49:58 AM

Poor Raul Julia must be rolling in his grave.

10/31/2006 11:59:35 AM

oh god. focus on chun li? who the fuck cares about that slut? i'm interested in seeing akuma.

10/31/2006 12:30:21 PM

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"Street Fighter II the animated movie is all you need."

10/31/2006 12:33:40 PM

^True.

10/31/2006 12:35:09 PM

Yea, wow, I had no idea there was even a voltron movie coming out... And I think that anything can be better than the first live action Street Fighter, horribly bad.

10/31/2006 12:35:55 PM

Ya I didn't know there was a Voltron movie in the works. I am suprised anybody remember's Voltron.

The street fighter moview with Van Damme sucked ballz but hopefully this one will be more like the game. I remember spending a ton of quarters on it back in the day before games were popular in the home. Those were the days... Man that was so long ago, I don't remember the last time I put a quarter in a machine besides a slot machine. I think Moral Kombat was the last game I played with quarters. Now all the game places are like Juillian, Dave a& Busters, Gameworks, etc...where you get a card to play.

10/31/2006 1:23:42 PM

Is it bad that I cringed when I heard "Voltron movie" b/c my brain saw "Transformers movie" instead?

10/31/2006 1:33:06 PM

Voltron was my cartoon of choice growing up.
Scooby Doo was a close second

10/31/2006 1:49:23 PM

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"Street Fighter II the animated movie is all you need."

I definitely agree. There's a new, unrated DVD release of that btw. It has the original Japanese language track (music is very different).

10/31/2006 2:50:33 PM