Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom Ltd. are getting in the ring for a film version of popular vidgame franchise "Street Fighter."Scribe Justin Marks has been tapped to adapt.Hyde Park and Capcom -- Japanese publisher of "Street Fighter" -- will produce the film in a joint venture.Pic will focus on the game's most popular female fighter, Chun Li, but the exact storyline is being kept under wraps.In 1994, Universal released a "Street Fighter" movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme that featured most of the characters from the game.Hyde Park and Capcom's film is targeted to bow in 2008, the 20th anniversary of the game franchise.The Street Fighter series helped ignite the arena fighting genre that's still popular in the vidgame world.When it first debuted, it generated heated controversy over the graphic depictions of violence.Though it has been less popular in recent years as the number of competitors has increased, "Street Fighter" games have sold over 25 million console games and 500,000 arcade units, generating more than a billion dollars in revenue.Marks just completed writing "Voltran" for producer Mark Gordon.He is repped by William Morris Agency. Hyde Park will be selling the project at the American Film Market, which unspools this week in Santa Monica.
u see dat when they say it go focus on Chun Lee dey start badd! Street Fighter is all bout Ryu dey doh play d game or wah. THey could show her in the bathroom and ting too like before pull in a jessica alba for dat part and ting and then tell ty bb gg lata.
u see dat when they say it go focus on Chun Lee dey start badd!
Quote from: Heady on October 30, 2006, 11:02:32 AMu see dat when they say it go focus on Chun Lee dey start badd! Oh, HELL no.To me, that's all the more reason to go and see it.Lest we forget, Chun-Li does have the distinction of being the first video game vixen to jump start the trend of women standing out more in games. So, if anybody deserves to have a movie revolving around her, it's Chun-Li.
and doh be on my sig flippy!! it realllllllll bad!
yuh know.....i have half a mind to stamp out the ppl that misspell the name Chun Li....and then go about trying to give opinions about a StreetFighter movie. But...well i go leave that to the Fighter fans.
um... is she asian? that pic doesnt give me a good enuff idea
anyone else wanna bash me bout the mispelt chun li name?
Heady hit the point exactly. Street Fighter was, is and always will be synonymous with Ryu. I can't for the life of me figure how people could miss that.
