The Street Fighter movie in development gets an all-star cast, with Jason Momoa, Roman Reigns, Andrew Koji, and Noah Centineo all in talks for roles.
Jason Momoa is known for playing Aquaman, and he’s playing Lobo for James Gunn’s DCU. He’s also coming off A Minecraft Movie, which has made over $900 million.
Roman Reigns is a WWE Superstar and cousin of Dwayne Johnson. He’s no stranger to acting, having appeared in Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and The Wrong Missy.
Andrew Koji showed off his acting chops and martial arts skills in Warrior. He also played Storm Shadow in the GI Joe Snake Eyes movie.
Noah Centineo played Atom Smasher in Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam, and he recently starred in Warfare and The Recruit.
Who are they playing?
Update: Jeff Sneider reports that Roman Reigns is playing Akuma, the powerful fighter driven by dark energy in the Street Fighter series who first appeared in Super Street Fighter II Turbo (1994). Akuma is the younger brother of Gouken, who is Ryu and Ken’s master.
Jason Momoa is reported to be up for Blanka.
Andrew Koji as Ryu, the titular “street fighter,” described as a martial artist who has mastered the art of Ansatsuken and travels the world in search of worthy opponents to battle.
Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, Ryu’s friend and rival who trained with Ryu from a young age.
Street Fighter movie details
The Street Fighter movie is being developed by Legendary, based on the hit video games by Capcom.
Bad Trip‘s Kitao Sakurai is the director, who also directed episodes of Peacock’s Twisted Metal starring Anthony Mackie.
Legendary recently acquired the exclusive film and TV rights to the franchise. No release date has been set.
The Origins of Street Fighter
The Street Fighter video game debuted in 1987 as a fighting game with a focus on one-on-one martial arts battles. The original game featured the playable fighters Ryu and Ken, with the CPU characters, Retsu, Geki, Joe, Mike, Lee, Gen, Birdie, and Eagle.
The game would explode in popularity with the release of the Street Fighter II arcade game in 1991 which introduced all-playable characters including the additions of Blanka, Chun-Li, Dhalsim, E. Honda, Guile, M. Bison, Vega, and Sangief.
As the series expanded, so did its global tournament storyline, often centered around the criminal syndicate Shadaloo and its leader, M. Bison.
With over 55 million copies sold worldwide, Street Fighter remains one of the most iconic and best-selling video game franchises of all time.
A film was released in 1994 starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as Colonel Guile, Ming-Na Wen as Chun-Li, and Raul Julia as Bison, which at the time made about $100 million at the box office.
