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News by Ellie Gibson

19 March, 2008

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
19/03/08 @ 12:11
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JCVD!
DB2k
19/03/08 @ 12:15
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Ben Kingsley as Dhalsim please!
killest
19/03/08 @ 12:18
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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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19/03/08 @ 12:19
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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?
chris_ace
19/03/08 @ 12:21
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seems like they are set to make something that rivals the van damme version for pure rubbish
Ikari2001
19/03/08 @ 12:26
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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.
Dizzy
19/03/08 @ 12:27
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No Jean Claude is NO BUY!

;)
Kyle
19/03/08 @ 12:31
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The guy from the Black Eyed Peas? Seriously?
the_dudefather
19/03/08 @ 12:31
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GAAAMMMME OVAA!!!!
Muddtallica
19/03/08 @ 12:34
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Wow...this is really going to suck ass. Call me when you make a Blanka movie. Starring Al Pacino.
RandomTerrain
19/03/08 @ 12:35
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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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19/03/08 @ 12:48
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"No Jean Claude is NO BUY! "

+1 :)
Lawlost
19/03/08 @ 12:48
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wot no Kylie
SomaticSense
19/03/08 @ 12:49
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No. No no no no no no no no no.

No.
BillyBrush
19/03/08 @ 12:52
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DB2k
19-Mar-08 12:15:11 Ben Kingsley as Dhalsim please!
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+200

hehe
richyroo
19/03/08 @ 12:55
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Chun-Li will have an American accent...Nice one..Not!
MBar
19/03/08 @ 12:57
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Ok, so where's Ken and Ryu in all this then?
MBar
19/03/08 @ 12:59
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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.
richyroo
19/03/08 @ 12:59
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@ MBar

Maybe they havent signed up for this cos they could see its goona be utter s@#t
Pac-man ate my wife
19/03/08 @ 13:02
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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!
retrend
19/03/08 @ 13:04
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"Chris Klein (the fit one from American Pie)" are you gay?
Gyruss
19/03/08 @ 13:08
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@retrend

Congratulations on your epic fail.
smoothpete
19/03/08 @ 13:14
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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?
Vaxadrin
19/03/08 @ 13:21
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This will be a cinematic masterpiece filled with gripping, emotional melodrama.
Rash'
19/03/08 @ 13:25
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God. Didn't they learn the first time. Hollywood and games don't mix.
Artemis_Matsas
19/03/08 @ 13:28
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Dizzy, bad09

+1000!!!
ruttyboy
19/03/08 @ 13:29
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"The only decent movie was Street Fighter the Movie Manga"


/starts stopwatch
mexalen
19/03/08 @ 13:30
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This will be a cinematic masterpiece filled with gripping, emotional melodrama.

+1 ;)
I can totally see that happen...
peteb
19/03/08 @ 13:32
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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.
7creature
19/03/08 @ 13:32
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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
Velios
19/03/08 @ 13:39
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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.
redneon
19/03/08 @ 13:40
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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.
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19/03/08 @ 13:50
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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.
nick_f
19/03/08 @ 13:51
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I thought the fit one from American Pie was Tara Reid?
Jibraeel
19/03/08 @ 13:53
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"The only decent movie was Street Fighter the Movie Manga"


/starts stopwatch

ANIME!

/stops timer

Mentalist(air)
19/03/08 @ 13:57
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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
Mentalist(air)
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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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19/03/08 @ 14:56
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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.
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paul_haine
19/03/08 @ 15:26
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Van Damme actually turned down the chance to reprise his Guile role. Source
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19/03/08 @ 15:56
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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.
Razorus
19/03/08 @ 15:58
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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.
Calgon
19/03/08 @ 16:31
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Needs signature JCVD roundhouse kicks, in slow mo... with "peeeeeeeeeeeeeh" noises too.
Tweakmonkey
19/03/08 @ 16:38
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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
patchbox360
19/03/08 @ 18:19
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why ???
DAN:SOLO
19/03/08 @ 21:10
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooo....................!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ryze
19/03/08 @ 21:59
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Yawn.
Triggerhappytel
20/03/08 @ 00:57
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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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