Capcom’s Street Fighter is the greatest fighting game franchise of all-time, full stop, and it’s hotter than ever right now. That makes this a good time to launch a brand new live-action movie, which is what Legendary is doing with Bad Trip director Kitao Sakurai. And that means finding a cast to play the “world warriors”, with Deadline reporting that Callina Liang has nabbed the role of Chun-Li. She better start doing leg lifts right now.
Liang joins a recently announced cast of Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, Jason Momoa, Roman Reigns, and Orville Peck. While none of their roles have been confirmed, WWE superstar Reigns has been rumored to be playing Akuma. Koji seems like a perfect fit for Ryu, with Centineo looking pretty good to play Ken. Momoa would be a damn good Blanka, if you ask me.
This will be the biggest film yet for Liang. She recently starred in Steven Soderbergh’s ghost story, Presence, and the heist thriller Bad Genius.
Chun-Li is a Chinese martial arts expert with the killer kicks (hence the massive thighs), and a thirst for vengeance against M. Bison for the death of her father. She was played previously by Ming-Na Wen in the dreadful 1994 movie, and by Kristin Kreuk in the equally awful Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li in 2009. The best movie version of “the Chun” is in Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie in 1994.
On a side note, there’s almost no character I hate fighting more than Chun-Li. She’s always overpowered.
Street Fighter is currently set to hit theaters on March 20th 2026.
