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Deadline: Orville Peck s Cast of New Live-Action Street Fighter Film

posted on by Adriana Hazra
Andrew Koji, Jason Momoa, Noah Centineo, WWE professional wrestler Roman Reigns to co-star

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Entertainment news website Deadline reported on Friday that country musician Orville Peck (Cabaret Broadway play) will the cast of CAPCOM's Street Fighter fighting game series. This will be his feature film acting debut after performing on Broadway.

Deadline previous reported that actors Andrew Koji (Snake Eyes), Jason Momoa (Aquaman, Game of Thrones), and Noah Centineo (Warfare), and WWE professional wrestler Roman Reigns were in negotiations for the film, and now indicates that they have all ed the cast.

The film was planned to directing the film.

Legendary Entertainment acquired the film and television rights to Street Fighter in April 2023, and will work with CAPCOM on future projects.

Brothers Danny and Michael Philippou were initially slated to direct the film, but left the film to focus on making their Bring Her Back film.

The game series inspired a live-action film in 1994 starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia, Ming-Na Wen, Damian Chapa, Kylie Minogue, and Wes Studi. Hyde Park Entertainment produced a separate spinoff titled Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li starring Kristin Kreuk in 2009.

Machinima produced the Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist and Street Fighter: Resurrection live-action planned in 2018.

franchise has also inspired several other anime and animated series.

The Street Fighter 6 fighting Steam.

Source: Deadline (Anthony D'Alessandro)


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