As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Sony and Legendary Leisure need to deliver a brand new live-action Avenue Fighter film to screens on March 20, 2026.

It appears like a nasty concept to me. We’ve been down this road earlier than, and other than Raul Julia’s unimaginable efficiency as M. Bison, issues haven’t turned out nice. Do you keep in mind 2009’s Avenue Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li? Me neither.

There isn’t a complete lot of data round concerning the contents of the movie, script or in any other case. Danny and Michael Philippou had been initially going to direct however needed to drop out resulting from scheduling points. There’s no phrase on whether or not or not that is going to be primarily based on a selected entry of the franchise or who will probably be starring in it, solely that will probably be live-action.

With the overwhelming success of the Tremendous Mario Bros. film, in addition to some victories on the small display screen, it’s no shock that different studios need to see what else could be tailored. The comedian e book nicely is wanting prefer it’s drying up, so executives are wanting elsewhere for lucre. 

Avenue Fighter has at all times struck me as a bizarre alternative for live-action. The video games don’t have an precisely stable or memorable story and are principally simply bizarre muscle-dudes throwing hearth at each other. The 1994 movie hit when the collection was on the top of its reputation, and whereas I don’t suppose it was a failure, it didn’t make an enormous splash, both. I’m severe about Raul Julia, although. I may watch a compilation of his scenes all day, on daily basis.

However I’ll concede that it may work with the suitable individuals behind it.