This year has been full of good news for all fans of Street Fighter. In other words, not only will a sixth installment of the famous video game premiere in June, but we already know who the filmmakers of a new film adaptation will be. That’s right, we’ll have a movie live action inspired in Street Fighter and here we tell you who the directors will be.
Live-action of Street Fighter
Street Fighter is a very successful video game franchise that the Capcom company released in 1987. Since then, several sequels and spin offs They have arrived to conquer the fans. In fact, Street Fighter II (1991) was the first one-on-one fighting game in which players were allowed to select from a variety of characters, each with distinctive moves.
The popularity of video games caused an attempt to transfer the story to the cinema. The first time in 1994, in an adaptation starring Jean-Claude Van Damme (Bloody contact, Universal Soldier). Later, Kristin Kreuk —Lana Lang in the series about Superman, smallville— led the cast of another film live action of 2009 titled Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
Now the producer Legendary Entertainmentwhich recently acquired the film and television production rights to the franchise, is in final negotiations with Danny and Michael Philippe to direct a new adaptation. The Philippou twins recently made waves at Sundance with the horror film Talk to Me. His first film generated such a good response at the festival that several studios fought over the rights. In the end, A24 studios won and the film’s release, in the United States, is scheduled for July 2023.
The exclusive of The Hollywood Reporter about the Philippou brothers as the directors of the live-action of Street Fighter, indicates that their good time at the Sundance festival favored them in dealing with Legendary. The article notes that there are sources reporting that the Philippou managed to close a more or less 7-figure deal with the studio.
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