In a bit over a month, Capcom can have everybody’s consideration with the discharge of Avenue Fighter 6. The sport has spoken for itself since its grand reveal final 12 months, and it’s wanting increasingly more like Capcom’s bought one other hit on its arms between that and the Resident Evil 4 remake. However the battle doesn’t finish there, because it flips out {that a} new theatrical film for the fighting game franchise is within the works, and already has a pair of administrators lined up.
Based on the Hollywood Reporter, administrators Michael and Danny Philippou will take the reigns of the upcoming Avenue Fighter film. The twins are behind the upcoming July horror flick Speak to Me, and have been introduced on primarily based on the obvious power of that movie through the pageant circuit. Manufacturing firm Legendary (who acquired the film/TV rights to the sequence earlier within the month) already has a shortlist of writers it’s contemplating to adapt the sequence, and it’s at the moment not clear what the tackle the video games will likely be, not to mention who among the many video games’ stacked roster of characters will present up.
Avenue Fighter as a sequence isn’t any stranger to the films. The cult basic movie launched in 1994, with Ming-Na Wen and Jean-Claude Van Damme in starring roles together with Raul Julia in his closing efficiency earlier than his passing. 15 years later in 2009, there was The Legend of Chun-Li, which starred Kristin Kreuk and Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas, and was…not terribly preferred. In reality, it’s thought of one of many worst films ever made and was a field workplace bomb.
Since then, Capcom has saved Avenue Fighter primarily locked to video games and typically comics, although not for lack of making an attempt. There was Avenue Fighter: Legacy brief movie from 2010 that was meant to arrange extra films, and later led to the 2014 Murderer’s Fist webseries. Although that present’s second season was canceled, it was adopted up with a separate sequence, Avenue Fighter: Resurrection, in 2016.
With how a lot the sequence has modified in 2009—from its characters and storyline to the overall general aesthetic—this new Avenue Fighter film has loads to drag from for inspiration. Hopefully it manages to capitalize on the momentum Capcom’s managed to construct up with Avenue Fighter 6, and simply lets the characters individuals like punch one another within the face for 2 hours.
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