The glorious history of live action Street Fighter adaptations appears set to become even more celebrated, with news that yet another live action adaptation is in the works – Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist.
The announcement:
Astonishingly, Japanese Street Fighter fans seem unenthused:
“I guess we are expected to pretend the one with Van Damme never happened.”
“Amateurs?”
“What do you mean, it’s not a TV anime?”
“At least cast some Asians, please…”
“Seriously? Well, the live action version was pretty good…”
“The last one with Chun-Li was pretty shoddy though, it’ll probably just be like that.”
“Make sure you cast a hottie as Chun-Li guys.”
“So who will play Chun-Li!?”
“I don’t think she will even be in it…”
“If they did it properly it could be good, but this just sounds like a rip-off of Star Wars or something.”
“Looking at the quality of their fan-made stuff just makes all commercially produced Japanese movies look like total rubbish…”
“This is going to bomb horribly.”
This series was AWESOME!!! It only focused on Ryu and Ken’s evolution with some background about Akuma, Gouken, and Goutatsu. None of it was far fetched from the original backstories, compared to the first two movies.
One thing Hollywood never gets, or cares about, is accuracy. Neither movie portrayed the characters correctly, especially the main thing about their backgrounds. Bison was the only one and Van Damme was at least military (supposed to be air-force, not navy). But these guys, I’ve seen their short on Youtube, and it was pretty tight. This one is definately NOT Hollywood, and that deserves praise. People hate fan made s♥♥t, but at least they are FAN made, meaning they’ll try to capture it with only a budget being the real limitation.
Do they never learn?
M.Bison: OF COURSE!!!
While this probably won’t set the bar much higher than people expect at least these next guys know what they are doing since they have done some shorts before and theres an action director.
Everybody says:
-I will no going to see it
-It is horrible
-Hollywood crap again
But I can bet that 90% of you will go to see it or will download the pirate version.
Since the mayority don’t have standard of quality. If Im wrong then Hollywood would realize that it loses money making s♥♥t and it would look the form of pleasing those that really want quality.