The brand new Avenue Fighter film lands in theaters subsequent October

The brand new Avenue Fighter film has been given a of October 16, 2026. Kitao Sakurai is directing the mission and some generic plot particulars have been disclosed. The story might be set in 1993, a nod to the 12 months Avenue Fighter II was launched in arcades, and may have acquainted characters from the sport uncovering “a lethal conspiracy” within the midst of all their avenue combating.

It appears protected to anticipate a good bit of camp in a Avenue Fighter mission, and that bears out in a number of the casting. Andrew Koji will play Ryu; he is had a number of previous motion roles akin to Bullet Prepare and TV collection Warrior, in order that looks like a stable selection. Noah Centineo is taking a break from his work in Netflix rom-coms (notably To All of the Boys I’ve Cherished Earlier than and its sequels) to play Ken. Newcomer Callina Liang, who solely has a number of credit thus far, will play Chun-li. David Dastmalchian might be filling the nice Raul Julia’s footwear (and outsized hat) as M. Bison.

Then issues actually get wacky. Curtis Jackson (who you already know as rapper 50 Cent) is enjoying Balrog and nation artist Orville Peck is Vega. Jason Momoa has been forged as Blanka, whereas WWE wrestler Cody Rhodes has even been chosen to play Guile. This could possibly be absolute gold or absolute trash or presumably each on the identical time.