Legendary understood the assignement. Last night at The Game Awards, it debuted in front of the perfect audience the long-awaited trailer for Street Fighter. This is, by far, the most talked-about video game movie ever, and they did it up in style. Knowing the audience has been wild to see this crazy cast, they brought them all up on stage and then focused the trailer footage on showing them as some of the most recognizable fighting game characters in history.
Most importantly, the focus of the Street Fighter trailer is on combat. What’s the plot? Who the Hell knows and, I promise you, none of us in the Fighting Game Community give a damn. What we get is WWE Champion Cody Rhodes, sporting the neatly-combed hair of Guile, performing his iconic flash kick. We also see Olivier Richters as Zangief taking his opponent for a spinning piledriver. We see 50 Cent putting up his dukes as Balrog, former IWGP champion Hirooki Goto assuming the sumo stance as E. Honda, Jason Momoa ready to take a bite out of someone as Blanka, and so much more.
I was curious about Noah Centineo as Ken Masters, but they managed to pull off his look better than expected. We also see Andrew Koji as Ryu, Callina Liang as Chun-Li, Roman Reigns as Akuma, David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, Eric Andre as Don Sauvage, Andrew Schulz looks nutty as Dan Hibiki, Orville Peck as Vega, Mel Jarnson as Cammy, Rayna Vallandingham as Juli, and Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim.
Director Kitao Sakurai seems to have pulled off what many thought impossible; to make a Street Fighter movie that fans will go crazy over and will capture the imagination of those who have no idea what a “raging demon” is.
Street Fighter hits theaters on October 16th 2026 from Paramount Pictures.
