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Main cast members announced.

Capcom has announced the new Street Fighter movie will be released next year to tie-in with the game's 20th anniversary.

Michael Clarke Duncan, him off of The Green Mile and Sin City, will play Balrog. The role of M. Bison goes to Neil McDonough (Band of Brothers, Minority Report) while Chris Klein (the fit one from American Pie) will play Charlie Nash.

Taboo, "member of popular R&B music group Black Eyed Peas" as he's described in the press release, has been cast as funny old matador type Vega.

As previously announced, the role of Chun Li will be played by Kristin Kreuk. She's best-known to Smallville fans for her role as Lana Lang, and to fans of mediocre early-noughties Canadian teen drama as Edgemont's Laurel Yeung. The story will revolve around her, apparently.

"At Capcom, not only do we strive to make entertaining and profitable games, but we are also always endeavouring to lucratively develop our popular franchises in other media in ways that will please the fans," the company said in a statement. Bless.

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Xerx3s #1 4 years ago

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JCVD!
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DB2k #2 4 years ago

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Ben Kingsley as Dhalsim please!
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killest #3 4 years ago

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....Chris Klein (the fit one from American Pie)...

is he the guy who t-bags the apple crumble?
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dfunked #4 4 years ago

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Ah dear god, I have a feeling that this will be even worse than the last one...
Why don't they just give the fans what they want and release another animated film?
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chris_ace #5 4 years ago

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Ikari2001 #6 4 years ago

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I'll reserve judgement till i see it (if i ever do lol) but they really should stick to anime movies. It just ain't a game that can translate to Hollywood very well.
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Dizzy #7 4 years ago

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No Jean Claude is NO BUY!
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Kyle #8 4 years ago

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The guy from the Black Eyed Peas? Seriously?
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the_dudefather #9 4 years ago

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GAAAMMMME OVAA!!!!
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Muddtallica #10 4 years ago

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Wow...this is really going to suck ass. Call me when you make a Blanka movie. Starring Al Pacino.
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RandomTerrain #11 4 years ago

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I agree with the animated film idea.
Makes a lot more sense!
I won't be going near this until I've seen a review.
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bad09 #12 4 years ago

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"No Jean Claude is NO BUY! "

+1
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Lawlost #13 4 years ago

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wot no Kylie
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SomaticSense #14 4 years ago

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No. No no no no no no no no no.

No.
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BillyBrush #15 4 years ago

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DB2k
19-Mar-08 12:15:11 Ben Kingsley as Dhalsim please!
ignore poster

+200

hehe
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richyroo #16 4 years ago

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Chun-Li will have an American accent...Nice one..Not!
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MBar #17 4 years ago

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Ok, so where's Ken and Ryu in all this then?
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MBar #18 4 years ago

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....Chris Klein (the fit one from American Pie)...

is he the guy who t-bags the apple crumble?

No, he's the one that plays Lacross and doesn't get it on with whatshername.
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richyroo #19 4 years ago

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@ MBar

Maybe they havent signed up for this cos they could see its goona be utter s@#t
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Pac-man-ate-my-wife #20 4 years ago

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What a great idea, it's about time someone did another SFII! It'll be the perfect companion to the Dead Or Alive and Mortal Kombat films!
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Gyruss #21 4 years ago

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@retrend

Congratulations on your epic fail.
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smoothpete #22 4 years ago

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""Chris Klein (the fit one from American Pie)" are you gay?"

Does "Ellie" look like a bloke's name to you?
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Vaxadrin #23 4 years ago

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This will be a cinematic masterpiece filled with gripping, emotional melodrama.
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Rash' #24 4 years ago

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God. Didn't they learn the first time. Hollywood and games don't mix.
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Artemis_Matsas #25 4 years ago

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Dizzy, bad09

+1000!!!
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ruttyboy #26 4 years ago

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"The only decent movie was Street Fighter the Movie Manga"

/starts stopwatch
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mexalen #27 4 years ago

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This will be a cinematic masterpiece filled with gripping, emotional melodrama.

+1
I can totally see that happen...
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peteb #28 4 years ago

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as long as the hadokens don't look like someone getting a small static shock like in the first one then...

ahh nah, it'll still be shit.
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7creature #29 4 years ago

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Ok. So just another US "kung-fu" movie then? Film cuts so sharp and fast you have no idea what's going on on the screen (only that it is a total crap). Oh, how I love this era where every pensioner is basically Wong Fei Hung combined with Miyamoto Musashi hybrid - or at least according to film editors. Sad times...

Another Blade: Trinity ("action"-wise) again, it seems.

/throws up and goes watching Once Upon a Time in China again
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Velios #30 4 years ago

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I'm probably the biggest Street Fighter fan out there, But why oh why do they have to fuck it up with this utter shit.
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redneon Verified Programmer, SUMO Digital #31 4 years ago

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Unless it has Chun-Li's shower norks I'm not interested.

To be honest, though. I preferred the Alpha movie. The V series wasn't too bad either, if I remember correctly.

Edited by 1 at 19/03/08 @ 13:42
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mexalen #32 4 years ago

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Actually it should be something like the "Street fighter: The later years"-series on collegehumor.com. It was pretty funny, but still kind of gripping and had nice visual effects.

Recent Action-movies are just cut way to fast. I don't understand why they hire highprofile stunt-coordinators, and then its filmed shaky and cut in that blury style.
I really liked the DoA-movie. Because they wanted to show off the girls in their tight outfits it was cut more slowly and you could actually see the action going on. And they did will. The fight scenes were awesome.
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nick_f Verified Senior Producer, Microsoft #33 4 years ago

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I thought the fit one from American Pie was Tara Reid?
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Jibraeel #34 4 years ago

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"The only decent movie was Street Fighter the Movie Manga"

/starts stopwatch

ANIME!

/stops timer
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MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #35 4 years ago

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"The only decent movie was Street Fighter the Movie Manga"
/starts stopwatch

Presumably he's referring to the UK distributor, Manga Entertainment
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MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #36 4 years ago

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I thought the fit one from American Pie was Tara Reid?

That depends on how pro-ana you are.

Or how much you were into Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Or, indeed MILFs. Or poor eastern european accents and gratuitous nudity.
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peterfll #37 4 years ago

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It is a known fact only gay men or straight women can detect if a man has a muscle-fit physique. Straight men can't spot that sort of thing - its invisible to them isn't it?

Anyway, re: Michael Clarke Duncan and Neil McDonough, Pulp Fiction, Green Mile and Band of Brothers respectively were decent. At least this time some of the cast involved have done more than straight to video.

Edited by 1 at 19/03/08 @ 14:57
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paul_haine #38 4 years ago

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Van Damme actually turned down the chance to reprise his Guile role. Source
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Razorus #39 4 years ago

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smoothpete said: "Does "Ellie" look like a bloke's name to you?"

The answer is unfortunatly, yes. It's a unisex name, like Ashley. I know a guy called Ellie. He's a complete fag. And the dude from DOA4 is also gay.
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Razorus #40 4 years ago

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Also, Neil McDonough as Bison, ftw. At first I was like, mreh. But then I noticed he has a creepy grin.
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Calgon #41 4 years ago

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Needs signature JCVD roundhouse kicks, in slow mo... with "peeeeeeeeeeeeeh" noises too.
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Tweakmonkey #42 4 years ago

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Street Fighter - how on earth are these nonces going to convince anyone they are the toughest warriors in the world?

/dragon punches the casting director
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patchbox360 #43 4 years ago

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why ???
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DAN.E.B #44 4 years ago

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo....................!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ryze #45 4 years ago

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Yawn.
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Triggerhappytel #46 4 years ago

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Oh for fuck's sake, why are they even bothering?! Just make it a CGI movie or animation, and keep real actors well away from it.
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