Capcom Wants More Street Fighter Movies

[Durxom]

Does the world revolve around me or something? Cause I just got back from picking up Street Fighter(1994) and watching it, and finding it really not that bad. It's a cheesy action movie, all the fighters are there and portrayed almost spot on, the moves where there, it was awesome...I can see why someone wouldnt like it but still..sure go ahead Capcom, more Street Fighter movies!

 

[MDSnowman]

Yeah whoever was in charge of casting Kristen Kreuk to play Chun-Li needs to be removed from the public, and possibly sterilized. That movie was so bad it made us all look fondly back on the VanDamme movie, which is frankly crazy.

 

[Jared]

Im all up for more movies...as long as they are made right...and not just cheap special effects!

 

[Outamyhead]

Everyone seems to have blanked out that gawd awful Anime version of SF, worse plot line than the movie, shite involvement of characters, longest intro of bad guy walking to his chair, and had nothing to do with the game.

They seem quite willing to kill a franchise.

 

[DTWolfwood]

what about the dudes behind the short film? what was it Street fighter legends or legacy or something to that affect? telling the Story of Ryu. I mean just grab one of the animes and make a live action movie from that

doing a direct copy would give u a better SF movie than the crap we've seen so far.

 

[esperandote]

RE is closer to what hollywood studios are already producing, they have more experience making action-horror and monsters movies than fighting movies.

 

[sabbat]

<Remembers the travesty that was the Street Fighter movie. Inhales sharply>

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO <Repeats Inhale, scream, inhale stages ad nauseum>

...Pretty much sums up my reaction to this new development!

 

[For.I.Am.Mad]

It can't be done. Capcom can't even make good animated shorts for their games how the hell do they expect to make a good live action Hollywood movie? One problem they have is that they still base all their stuff(Gainax anime, comics, games) on the original 94 anime. That was cool 16 YEARS AGO but it hasn't aged well mainly because it's pure 90's anime fluff. Flashy but no real substance. Have you watched that thing, it don't make no sense.

There's only one thing they can do.....retcon. Rewrite everything. Keep the constants like Ryu/Ken rivalry/ambiguous love, and Chun-Li's thighs but you gotta update shit so it makes a little bit of sense. Then start with homegrown anime. Once you start making good ani.....you know what it's not going to happen it's impossible. Capcom is not capable of this.

 

[Raithnor]

Here's the problem with Street Fighter as a live-action movie:

If you strip out all of the flashy, over the top, costumes and martial arts moves you have a really generic martial arts picture. Those only work as vehicles for Martial Artists who want to go into acting.

On the other hand if you keep everything it becomes cheesy self-parody because it's so unreal. Take the plot of "Legend of Chun Li" and give it the costumes and palatte of the video games it would be like the first Street Fighter movie or a Martial Arts version of Dick Tracey.

I can see why they want to break into Live-Action, there's not enough of an audience that would want an Anime version. Anime may have gotten slightly more mainstream, but a lot of people still see it as children's entertainment.

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Here's the problem with Street Fighter as a live-action movie:

If you strip out all of the flashy, over the top, costumes and martial arts moves you have a really generic martial arts picture. Those only work as vehicles for Martial Artists who want to go into acting.

On the other hand if you keep everything it becomes cheesy self-parody because it's so unreal. Take the plot of "Legend of Chun Li" and give it the costumes and palatte of the video games it would be like the first Street Fighter movie or a Martial Arts version of Dick Tracey.

I can see why they want to break into Live-Action, there's not enough of an audience that would want an Anime version. Anime may have gotten slightly more mainstream, but a lot of people still see it as children's entertainment.

I don't know. I'm pretty sure that The Matrix was basically a gun-fu movie that sold incredibly. Or Kill Bill. Or Boondock Saints.

It's not a question of how to sort it out, just that you provide a decent character arc for the main character. A good movie can support 3 fight scenes and as long as you've got a good reason for them; there's no reason why a SF2 movie can't work.

Well, there is and it begins with "H". And ends in "ollywood".

C'mon, if a film about a halfling lugging a ring around can get Oscars...

 

[Raithnor]

I don't know. I'm pretty sure that The Matrix was basically a gun-fu movie that sold incredibly. Or Kill Bill. Or Boondock Saints.

Gun-fu, while similar, is more mainstream. Hollywood knows guns, so it's not a big leap to throw Martial Arts into the mix.

I'm not saying a Martial Arts movie can't work. I'm saying that Street Fighter wouldn't translate well to Live-Action. Between the two fighting franchises, Mortal Kombat would work better since the characters sprites were (mostly) of actual people, so it has some decent grounding to it.

MovieBob had a article on this around the time the Prince of Persia movie came it. His main point was "If you have to strip everything out that makes the property distinctive, you might as well make a generic genre movie."

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

MovieBob had a article on this around the time the Prince of Persia movie came it. His main point was "If you have to strip everything out that makes the property distinctive, you might as well make a generic genre movie."

But you don't have to strip anything out of the movie, you just need to decide how much to focus on.

Taking Chun Li, your main points to include are:
That Dress
Strong Legs
Athleticism
Her Father
Bison (Possibly Vega)
Policework
China
Redemption overcoming her keeping everyone away.
And "Ya-tta!"

That's not tough, and you could fit a Road-Movie, a Horror, a Musical or a Sit-Com around that.

But you HAVE to keep that layer in, or it's not Chun-Li. You could get away with never showing the Spinning Bird Kick, Kiuoken or Hundred Foot Kick.

With Blanka, it's even easier: Brazil, Green, Orange Hair, Bracelet, Mom, Electric, Growl, Roll.

Now, look at how District 9 gave us a wimpy South-Efrican clerk, Up gave us a depressed old guy and made us cheer for them.

I'm saying Street Fighter could work. Could be a blockbuster. And could still be palatable to fans.

But it has to start off by ignoring the huge restrictions that Hollywood put on it, and I believe that MovieBob will list them this coming week.

 

[twm1709]

just another in the long list of proofs that America doesn't know what to do with japanese IPs and vice-versa. Seriously, every time a hear the Akira movie has been delayed I breath a sigh of relief

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

The only SF movies i really enjoyed were the Anime Movies.

The Anime ones were better because they were more faithful to the source material. Maybe they should avoid live action.

 

[WhiteTigerShiro]

What is Street Fighter? It's a fighting game. Does it have a story? Kinda... but meh... people bunch and kick each other, that's what matters. That's what the movie needs to focus more on. A good Street Fighter movie, in my opinion, would need to lean more towards a kung-fu movie like Iron Monkey or Hero. The story is there in both movies, but you watch it for the spectacularly choreographed fighting scenes. If the story is anything more than a vehicle to drive us from one fight scene to the other, then it's getting way too much attention.

The problem with the first Street Fighter movie is that it was campy in a way not many people can appreciate. Frankly, I found it to be delightfully amusing, but that's because I know not to take it seriously. Not everyone can be expected to judge a movie the same way though. The problem with the more recent movie is that it wasted too much time telling a story you don't care about, and not enough time on the fight scenes... which were pretty poorly done anyway.

So in the end you have one movie that only a fraction of people can appreciate, and another movie that has no value at all because it shies away from its source material's selling point (IE: fighting), and spends too much time telling a story that has even less to do with the source material (aside from the fact that the characters' names happened to be the same).

 

[Dudeakoff]

I want more SF movies in the style of the Van Dam movie. Why? It was comical, as good as a movie based on a fighting game can be, and actually represented M. Bison in a way that was perfect, as a insane dictator on a power trip who was also very classy and loved him some fashion. Raul Julia's Bison was the best Bison you'll ever see, I will guarantee you that.

Though honestly, if they don't go that way, I don't want any SF movies at all.

Essentially this. Resident Evil movies? Forgettable. The Street Fighter movie with the entire Raul Julia performance and that Van Damme motivational talk? Awesome.

There's a reason that when an extract of the movie was included in the rap intro [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FB1VDHY6PIo] to get people hyped for the SSF4 Evo Finals people went mental.