Street Fighter Movie Is Still Alive, Finds New Director With A Comedy Background

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Street Fighter Movie Is Still Alive, Finds New Director With A Comedy Background

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A new Street Fighter movie has been in the works for some time, and now it’s moving ahead once again with a new director. According to The

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, Kitao Sakurai (Bad Trip, The Eric Andre Show) is signed on to direct the movie at Legendary Entertainment.

Capcom, which owns the game franchise, is co-developing and co-producing the movie with Legendary. The movie will be distributed by Sony Pictures and is set for release on March 20, 2026.

Fans may recall how there already was a Street Fighter movie back in 1994 starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. It made

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at the box office back then. Kristin Kreuk starred in the reboot film, Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, which bombed in theaters in 2009.

The new Street Fighter movie originally had the *********** twins Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me) lined up to direct but a scheduling conflict for their new movie, Bring Her Back, led to the brothers departing the movie.

The Street Fighter game series has sold millions of copies across its various installments over the years, with 2016’s Street Fighter V standing as the best-selling game in the series with

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. 2023’s Street Fighter 6, the newest entry in the series, has sold 4.4 million copies so far. The entire Street Fighter series, meanwhile, has surpassed 56 million copies sold.

While fighting game fans have to wait until 2026 for the Street Fighter movie, another movie based on a fighting game, Mortal Kombat 2, hits theaters this October.

In addition to Street Fighter, there are many other video game movies in the works now, with the next releases being A Minecraft Movie (April 4) and the Until Dawn movie (April 25). Check out the gallery below to see all the upcoming video game movies in the works.

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