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STREET FIGHTER - Official Trailer & Posters



SYNOPSIS: Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don’t, it’s GAME OVER!



Nearly 3-minuter trailer for STREET FIGHTER has dropped, in anticipation of it's "October 16" premiere everywhere!

Helmed by director Kitao Sakurai, Street Fighter is set to bring the battle from the arcade to the big screen with Hadoukens, roundhouses, and all your favorite characters.






And while I understand and acknowledge the pop-culture significance of this video game (alongside Mortal Kombat), I was not a fervent player nor admirer, and upon first seeing the teasers of this life-action film, was actually quite turned off. "Trying too hard" to emulate the neon-soaked colors of the game, with cartoonish-caricatures of the characters, which I of course compared to the Van-Damme starred version of the live-action decades back, which I adored the kitschiness of it then, a period of my life which I'll never get back...

Then I saw THIS trailer, which delivered more "story" than I had anticipated, and begun to appreciate the characters and the colors, for the modern-day-lens of POP CULTURE KITSCH, byway "John Wick", and I find myself looking forward to watching this...! "What's Up" certainly helped sweeten the deal for me ... and now my allegiance wavers...! LOL Or maybe it's all just another cyclical phase I am going thru now... :p
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