- First official trailer for Paramount’s Street Fighter the film has been released
- Starring Noah Centineo, Andrew Koji, Callina Liang and David Dastmalchian
- Follows “a 1993 world tournament as a deadly conspiracy is uncovered”
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“But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face each other and the demons of their past. And if they don’t, it’s GAME OVER!”
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Not to be confused with the 1994 live-action film or the animated sequel from the same year, there are nods to pretty much every element of the franchise – and fans are absolutely alive for cinema’s return to its goofy era.
‘It’s like they understood exactly what we wanted this film to be’
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“If anything else, I appreciate them just leaning into the fact that this is a completely absurd movie,” notes one Reddit user as a second weighs in, “I cried like a baby when I saw the trailer for Street Fighter movie yesterday… an overwhelming sense of nostalgia completely overcame me.”
“So it’s a crazy dystopian 90s technicolor nightmare with absurd fights and a stupid as stone story? It’s beautiful. They figured it out,” agrees a third.
Sure enough, that one Street Fighter the film looks … lightly … at complex narrative. But we don’t keep an eye on that, do we? We want people to get smarter and look like our 90s toys while doing it.
Not only will such a true-to-game adaptation please die-hard fans, but it’s also more likely to perform better. I sense A Minecraft movie record levels in the not too distant future.
“But will there also be a tie-in video game called Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game: The Sequel?” a fan joker.
You joke but never say never kids…let’s see what Street Fighter brings the 16th of October.
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