Tickets for Street Fighter are now on sale, and Paramount Pictures has released a trio of new posters for the live-action reboot of the incredibly popular fighting game series, spotlighting the movie's leads.
This new adaptation will follow Chun-Li as she brings old friends Ryu and Ken Masters back together in the hopes that they will put their grudges aside and team up to defeat the Shadaloo criminal organisation led by M. Bison.
The first poster features Ryu preparing to unleash his signature Fireball; another finds Ken standing on top of a car as a nod to the arcade minigame, and both World Warriors leap into action alongside Chun-Li on the third one-sheet.
"Everyone wanted to make a film with a distinct style and approach that didn't look like a typical video game adaptation. I was invited to do something unconventional and was really allowed to do my own thing," director Kitao Sakurai said in a recent interview. "I wanted to keep that sense of fun and audacity, where you don't worry about what others think. I hope we managed to combine nostalgia with something fresh."
Sakura (The Eric Andre Show, Twisted Metal) signed on to direct Street Fighter after Talk to Me filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou parted ways with the project.
“Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don’t, it’s GAME OVER!”
The movie stars Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Andrew Koji as Ryu, Callina Liang as Chun-Li, Cody Rhodes as Guile, Orville Peck as Vega, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as Balrog, Jason Momoa as Blanka, Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim, Olivier Richters as Zangief, Hirooki Goto as E. Honda, David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i as Akuma, Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki, Eric André as Don Sauvage, Mel Jarnson as Cammy, Rayna Vallandingham as Juli, and Alexander Volkanovski as Joe.