A New Street Fighter Movie Is in the Works… and Honestly, Who Asked for This?

So apparently, we're getting another Street Fighter movie. Yes, really. Jason Momoa, Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, and Roman Reigns are reportedly in talks to star. Director Kitao Sakurai is attached. Capcom is co-developing. And somewhere, a very old, very powerful studio exec probably just said: "I remember playing that in the arcade! Kids love Street Fighter!"

But let's be real - Street Fighter as a franchise? Still around. Still fun. But culturally? Nowhere near the level it was in the 90s when Van Damme's deeply cursed version flopped harder than Double Dragon (Remember when they made a Double Dragon movie? It was so bad!!). The idea that a modern audience is going to line up for a live-action Street Fighter film feels... ambitious. Bold. Confusing?

Is this just the Minecraft Effect? Like, Minecraft crosses a billion dollars at the box office and now studios are rummaging through the IP junk drawer yelling "what do we still own that has pixels and nostalgia?" Because that's what this smells like.

Look, I'm not saying it can't work. We've seen some video game adaptations pull off the impossible lately (The Last of Us, Arcane, Fallout), but those came with actual story depth baked in. Street Fighter? It's a game where the lore is essentially "tournament happens, fists fly." And sure, you could build something fun out of that—but only if you go full camp or full serious, and nothing in this announcement screams that they know which way they're going.

So for now, I'm filing this under "wait and see"—right next to the Pac-Man movie and the live-action Legend of Zelda.