The Big Street Fighter Trailer Is Here

Capcom’s Street Fighter has been around for a long time and has had many interpretations in other media; some have worked out better than others. The ones that please the fans seem to be the ones that don’t try to water down the concept. It’s a bunch of people in crazy outfits beating each other up in outlandish, impossible ways — just make a wuxia movie that looks like a circus and you’ve nailed it. That seems to be the approach Paramount is taking with this latest attempt, which released its full trailer this morning.

You don’t need that much of a plot if you’re adapting Street Fighter, but we got the basic idea from the new trailer: Ryu and Ken have grown apart, they are now bitter enemies, and the only way they’ll see each other again is if Chun-Li tricks them into entering a fighting tournament at the same time. We’re sure the reason she’s entering is to avenge the death of her father at the hands of M. Bison (an act he doesn’t remember).

Past Street Fighter movies have been afraid to depict certain parts of the games for fear of looking “too goofy.” This film has no such fear and includes everything. You get Hadoukens, Spinning Bird Kicks, Dhalsim Stretchy Legs, Guile’s hair, even a car for Ken to beat up between matches.

This is actually NOT the only Capcom-branded movie that’s coming out this fall…a new take on Resident Evil is coming later this month. But after that, Street Fighter will kick and claw its way into theaters October 16.