Hyde Park Entertainment still hasn’t given up on their quest to make another Street Fighter movie. I guess they figure their version can’t possibly be worse than the original one. Variety reports that Andrzej Bartkowiak has been hired to direct it.
Bartkowiak most recently was responsible for the videogame to movie adaptation Doom. He’s also delivered such cinematic gems as Cradle 2 the Grave, Exit Wounds, and Romeo Must Die. Basically, Hyde Park is aiming pretty low. The guy has never made anything that wasn’t god awful, so even though it may not be possible to make a movie that’s actually worse than the original Jean Claude Van Damme version of Street Fighter, Hyde Park is giving it the old college try.
There’s no word on casting yet, but a few months ago there were rumors that the film would focus on the character of Chun Li and that Jessica Biel might be involved. I find that kind of unlikely. After the box office success of Chuck and Larry, she can do better. There’s no way this movie will be anything but crap. It’s based on a videogame with a paper thin plot, and it’s an idea that’s already failed once. Some day Hollywood will get the whole videogame adaptation thing right, but this is not that day.
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The Van Damme 1994 version was not the best movie but it failed and the live DOA movie was also a failure.
Now the director of Doom is working on the movie based on the Capcom beat em'up series as the story will be based on Ryu,Ken and Chun Li.
Justin Marks might be rewriting the script again.
Other VG movies are still in development like Tekken from Crystal Sky as the company will need to rewrite the script and change the director and the story will follow from the Tekken 2 game.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.
You know... Maggie Q can make a great Chun Li, Kane Kasugi should be playing Ryu, Gary Daniels can be Ken and if the wanna cast Jesica Beil.. Well she can play Cammy...
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Hyde Park Entertainment still hasn’t given up on their quest to make another Street Fighter movie. I guess they figure their version can’t possibly be worse than the original one. Variety reports that Andrzej Bartkowiak has been hired to direct it.
September 24th, 2007 at 02:26
STREET FIGHTER MOVIE.
The Van Damme 1994 version was not the best movie but it failed and the live DOA movie was also a failure.
Now the director of Doom is working on the movie based on the Capcom beat em'up series as the story will be based on Ryu,Ken and Chun Li.
Justin Marks might be rewriting the script again.
Other VG movies are still in development like Tekken from Crystal Sky as the company will need to rewrite the script and change the director and the story will follow from the Tekken 2 game.
Thank You.
BRUCE ACOSTA
AUSTRALIA.