The First Trailer for the New ‘Road Fighter’ Film Actually Seems to be Like That

Tonight on the Sport Awards, we lastly obtained a primary have a look at Capcom and Paramount Footage’ upcoming Street Fighter movie, which wasted no time getting all the way down to all of the motion.

Whereas there might have been some reservations about whether or not a live-action Road Fighter film would have the juice to look the half with out coming off as too goofy to be legitimately hype, we’ve to confess, it definitely shut us up a bit of bit. The trailer was a mile a minute, referencing whereas exhibiting off its illustrious record of actors and wrestlers in full costumes, and dare we are saying they seemed fairly respectable for Hollywood cosplay of online game characters. The trailer itself was principally a hodgepodge of motion with little or no hinting towards what its precise story may be, but it surely’s actually there for that in the intervening time. Let’s watch Chun Li kick fools, Guile do his flash kick, and folk and vehicles alike get air-juggled.

So far as the final Road Fighter movie endeavors go, these being the Jean-Claude Van Damme one and that different one about Chun Li you possible forgot about, this movie undoubtedly leaned extra closely into embracing the camp of the video games’ nonstop motion. Aesthetically, although, the sport appears to be taking extra pointers from its latest sport, Road Fighter VI‘s extra neon-drenched city look. All the higher to make Cody Rhode’s Guile hair look simply that rather more pronounced.

In case the rapid-fire function name of online game characters was too quick for you, right here’s the who’s who of Road Fighter and the actors bringing them to life:

• Noah Centineo as “Ken Masters”
• Andrew Koji as “Ryu”
• Callina Liang as “Chun-Li”
• Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i as “Akuma”
• David Dastmalchian as “M. Bison”
• Cody Rhodes as “Guile”
• Andrew Schulz as “Dan Hibiki”
• Eric André as “Don Sauvage”
• Vidyut Jammwal as “Dhalsim”
• Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as “Balrog”
• Jason Momoa as “Blanka”
• Orville Peck as “Vega”
• Olivier Richters as “Zangief”
• Hirooki Goto as “E. Honda”
• Rayna Vallandingham as “Juli”
• Alexander Volkanovski as “Joe”
• Kyle Mooney as “Marvin”
• Mel Jarnson as “Cammy”

Time will inform whether or not the movie can have a narrative mode as raucous as its trailer’s unbridled arcade motion. However from this primary look, director Kitao Sakurai undoubtedly left a very good first impression of what’s to return when the film hits theaters in 2026.

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