New “Street Fighter” Movie Gets a Director
By Jonathan on Thursday, September 6th, 2007 at 4:31 PM PST In Capcom, Gamer Life
Capcom and Hyde Park Entertainment have signed on Andrzej Bartkowiak as director for the new Street Fighter movie, set to go into production next year. Luckily, the film-makers have already made it clear that their film will have nothing to do with the Jean Claude Van Damme abomination. This new film will apparently focus on Chun Li on a quest for justice. Bartkowiak is known for his directing credits on Romeo Must Die, Exit Wounds, and Cradle to the Grave. The script has been penned by Justin Marks, who has been involved in the upcoming movie adaptations of He-Man and Voltron.
I just want to know how they can put this much effort into a movie, but they can’t make a good 3D Street Fighter game. What gives? And I’m not up on my theology, but I’m pretty sure a second “Street Fighter” movie is one of the signs of a coming apocalypse. It’s right up there with boiling seas and the dead rising from the grave.
Via Variety
Before anyone criticises this choice just remember how well he directed Grace Park:
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urgh, please god no.
The 1st film was a assault on all things good in this world.
Dont remind us of its existance by making a new one.
I dont want to automatically assume this movie is gonna be bad but this director also did DOOM the movie. And we all know how that turned out.
I don’t really know. Street Fighter is my all time favorite fighting game and the first animated movie was great. The anime series was way off and the Alpha movie was alright, but the overall story sucked worse than a mediocre fanfic.
About the only good thing about the first SF movie was getting Zangief’s look right and the few funny moments he had.
As for new SF games, I believe Capcom is afraid to ‘ruin’ the franchise by releasing an SF title that will flop badly and they’re content with selling/reselling compilations of old versions.
I guess they are trying to win over the male audience by focusing on a female character this time around (probably similar to the Tomb Raider/DoA/Resident Evil movie strategies – get pretty girl to star in movie to get the guys to check it out).
I think the movie makers are all out of touch with the SF fanbase as much as the Dungeons and Dragons movie makers are, if not more so. I guess I’ll still at least hope to be pleasantly suprised by it if they get it out at all.
Capcom should at least release a new SF version in time the movie and save themselves some of their budget for marketing while they’re at it.