Video interview with ‘Chun-Li’ scribe Justin Marks

What all you guys have to understand is that video games make more money than movies do.So of course all these video game movies suck,the film makers are straight up jelous.The same tends to be true of comic book movies too,unless the film maker is a fan(Sam Raimi) or a comic book writer(David Goyer).

I use the name "unreal" because this is just another unreal movie. They try to put logic to a made up fantasy. In the game these fighters are gifted with special abilities. Make the movie the same. They always seem to want to put logic to this and make them more human. The villians have powers, but the good guys don't... Like Mortal Kombat. They also have a typical ability to knock the movie when they know they trashed it. Because it didn't go over, they figure it is the concept and not the movie. It can be made. You would think after so many movie failures, they would get advice from fans, not other idiots or from their obviously small brains. If the games and the animes work, if the games and the anime have them with special abiilties, if the games and the anime have them in costumes, then they should follow suit. Every producer or director makes it "their baby" or "their version"... Which we all know to be failures.

Another dumb interview. I just feel like smacking Justin's face. They're saying Capcom wanted to do this, but is it Capcom America or "Capcom Japan"? Of course BISON is the main villain! We're not idiots! Duh our first guess for the bad guy would be BISON. If they don't wanna use him, take the boss from SFIII. Why is he talking about Vega and Balrog like we don't know who they are? The interview is with IGN! They're like a freakin' Video Game site. If he wants to give us a little summary of the story, do that, we know who the characters are. In Van Damme's SF, the guy playing Vega is too well built, (In the game he's a skinny douche.) and gets pwn by Ryu with the crappiest Hadoken ever, and Balrog is a hero along side with Chun Li. Talk about messed up already. Every character chosen to be in the film is random, and they're just thrown into scenarios. I really don't like Kristin as Chun Li. We all know Chun Li is 100% Chinese. Why didn't they just hire Ming-Na Wen again... haha. Whats the point of having Gen? without Akuma? Gen's student is Akuma, so we better see him in the film. (Poor Robin Shou aka Liu Kang playing a old man.) Shit, not the American Pie Chris Klein guy as Charlie Nash, he's not even blonde, or a fighter. Another mess up here! Why Guile going after Bison? For revenge, for Charlie, whose dead in the game, but in the movie turned into a monster Blanka.... If we gonna see Charlie, no Guile then, it better be a backstory, the film should be Alpha. Neal Mcdonough is not a bad Bison I guess, but he's BLONDE! (They could of at least color his hair to a dark brunette!) OMFG! Bison, to me is a massive villain, they still haven't got it right yet. Why Duncan as Balrog? I didn't like him as Kingpin, who is suppose to be a white guy in the comic. Did we just see him use like a rocket laucher or a bazooka? I doubt we'll see him put on some boxing gloves and throw a punch. And this Taboo dude as Vega, I don't know, his hair too dark, he's not goodlooking enough, the mask is too ugly. They dare throw in a new character Maya Sunee, when the game still has a lot of Fighters who haven't made their movie appearance yet. Capcom wants to get away from Ryu and Ken? They are the stars though. If they weren't in the game, it wouldn't had been a hit. But since they both don't have a story with the main villain, I hate to say it, that really is a good excuse to not focus on them. Well Mr. Marks made it sound like we will see Ryu and Ken, but I bet they'll be played by extras. In all the Japanese Anime of SF, it's always about Ryu and Ken, maybe thats why Capcom wants this new live action version to not have anything to do with those two. They are still the stars though, and the icing on the cake, so this film is screwed. Even those SF4 scenes are looking better than the legend of Chun Li. Marks said this film is to the Van Damme STREET FIGHTER movie what BATMAN BEGINS is to BATMAN FOREVER. Give me a break, they just messed up SF more. I'm not wasting a dollar on this film like the X-men movies. I didn't go see it in theaters, or rent it on dvd. The only time I watched any of the X-men flicks was when it aired on TV.

This movie is going to suck. There are a couple of reasons why. For one, most of the people in the movie do not look like their counterparts in the game: M. Bison is not some blue-eyed, blond guy, Balrog doesn't seem anything like his in-game counterpart due to the fact that we don't see much of him beating the sh*t out of people with his bare hands enough in the trailer, Charlie Nash is supposed to be blond, and where the hell is his glasses, Vega is supposed to be a white spaniard, and worst of all, Kristin Kreuk as Chun Li doesn't look asian enough, hell, she does not look like Chun Li at all. There are some other reasons to be pissed about this movie, like no Ryu or Ken, Chun Li doesn't wear her in-game costume(so that means no sheer pantyhose), and if this takes place in the Street Fighter Alpha era, where is Sakura, Dan, Cammy, and the rest of the Dolls. Oh yeah, I have to say this, but this movie is too white-washed for me, I think the reason the producers didn't want a movie focused on Ryu is because they are racist and think that an asian can not play the lead in a martial arts/video game movie.

Hollywood screw up video game movies,look at dead or alive,doom,how can these directors work after such flops?hollywood are all about money, they don't care about making bad/good movies as long as they make money,they will because its all advertising, people will watch this shit good or bad,becuase of the t.v.spots,and giant posters in malls.All you have to say is streetfighter the movie and it will be seen bu millions regardless of it being shot with a 100 million budget, or a 2 million budget.Sorry but this movie is all about the name, and the director,producers know it.

Actually, Jackie Chan's Street Fighter scene in City Hunter showed that it can be done rather well in live-action form. Too bad Capcom wasn't paying attention at that time.

Andrzej Bartkowiak has not directed a solid movie yet and i think that trend will continue, which is a shame b/c i love the SF franchise. though, i've never been a fan of tekken, i'm looking forward to that adaptation the most. it has the best cast i've seen in a videogame to film and i LIKED rapid fire so i hope the tekken film is as 'good' as the first mortal kombat movie (which shouldn't be too hard to top, though i think its the 'best' videogame to film adaptation so far)

Hmm like casting screech for Zangief, this doesn't really work.

Kristin is soo hot!

"Let's not try to...please everyone."

So how the hell do you expect the film to succeed, idiot?

"...Bison is the one everyone recognizes."

Not based on your casting job, buddy.

Also, why the hell does Balrog have a gun, when he's a friggin' boxer?! It defeats the whole purpose of the characters. But then we're talkin' about a director who couldn't even get a Doom movie with The Rock right.

"Get as far away from what was done with the Streetfighter world in the past."

I guess they didn't learn their mistake from SF III...

"The first one is a...Wolverine story."

No, the first one is a Professor X/Magneto story. The third one was the Wolverine story, and not a lot of people liked it.