With videogame-to-film adaptations still popular with studios (despite distinctly dodgy results such as Doom and DOA: Dead Or Alive), it’s no surprise that another game is getting the movie treatment.
The shock is that the source has already been through the ringer – and that this isn’t a sequel.
Street Fighter is returning to make another assault on our senses, but instead of planning a follow-up to the frankly pants 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme action adventure, Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom are re-imagining the film to focus on the most popular female warrior, Chun Li.
Apart from that, the companies are staying quiet on exactly what Justin Marks’ script will contain. But it is known that they’re planning to have it in cinemas by 2008, just in time for the game’s 20th anniversary. Fight! Fight! Fight!