Recently, Capcom’s vice president of strategic planning and business development, Christian Svensson, sat down for an interview to discuss a few things in Capcom's future it lead to a few interesting bits of news. After two box office bombs, it seems that the company has not abandoned the Street Fighter franchise in the movie world, although I think most would agree that they should. He had this to say:
"Let’s just say there were a lot of people with different ideas as to what was the best route to take with that movie. A path was chosen, a result was had. I think there are some learnings internally that we’ve taken away from that experience. I think you’ll see some clever live-action stuff that will excite our fans at some point in the future, based on Street Fighter. Let’s just say that the book is not yet done on Street Fighter film and video projects."
This, along with several other franchises, have so much potential to be a good film series, but they just always seem to fall short. If you look at Capcom's
Resident Evil film series, it is actually the second biggest franchise for Sony pictures, just behind the
Spider-Man films. Although the
Resident Evil films are far from perfect, they are at least somewhat entertaining.
Back to the interview, Svensson closed the topic of the
Street Fighter films by saying that "...hopefully we get one right sometime in the future. There are more projects in the works."
Gee, that is so comforting to know.