LONG THAI
At tonight’s Game Awards, Capcom and Paramount Pictures finally unveiled the first glimpse of their upcoming Street Fighter movie—and it dove straight into the chaos without hesitation.
Despite early doubts about whether a live‑action adaptation could capture the series’ style without tipping into unintentional silliness, this trailer does a surprisingly solid job of easing those fears. It moves at breakneck speed, highlighting its stacked cast of actors and pro wrestlers fully suited up as their iconic characters—and honestly, the costumes look better than many expected for big‑budget video‑game cosplay. There’s not much in the way of plot teases yet; the footage is mostly a rapid‑fire montage of fights and signature moves. But for now, that’s exactly the point. We’re here to see Chun‑Li wreck people, Guile land a flash kick, and both humans and vehicles get launched into the air like it’s nothing.
As far as the last Street Fighter film endeavors go, those being the Jean-Claude Van Damme one and that other one about Chun Li you likely forgot about, this film definitely leaned more heavily into embracing the camp of the games’ nonstop action. Aesthetically, though, the game seems to be taking more pointers from its newest game, Street Fighter VI‘s more neon-drenched urban look. All the better to make Cody Rhode’s Guile hair look just that much more pronounced.
In case the rapid-fire role call of video game characters was too fast for you, here’s the who’s who of Street Fighter and the actors bringing them to life:
- Noah Centineo as “Ken Masters”
- Andrew Koji as “Ryu”
- Callina Liang as “Chun-Li”
- Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i as “Akuma”
- David Dastmalchian as “M. Bison”
- Cody Rhodes as “Guile”
- Andrew Schulz as “Dan Hibiki”
- Eric André as “Don Sauvage”
- Vidyut Jammwal as “Dhalsim”
- Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as “Balrog”
- Jason Momoa as “Blanka”
- Orville Peck as “Vega”
- Olivier Richters as “Zangief”
- Hirooki Goto as “E. Honda”
- Rayna Vallandingham as “Juli”
- Alexander Volkanovski as “Joe”
- Kyle Mooney as “Marvin”
- Mel Jarnson as “Cammy”
Time will tell whether the film will have a story mode as raucous as its trailer’s unbridled arcade action. But from this first look, director Kitao Sakurai definitely left a good first impression of what’s to come when the movie hits theaters in 2026.
