'Street Fighter' Gets Its Cast
Filed under: Casting, Remakes and Sequels, Games and Game Movies
A few months ago, Kristin Kreuk was said to be Chun-Li in the upcoming Street Fighter film. Variety has now confirmed it and listed off some of the rest of the cast, and you might be just a little surprised. Aside from the Smallville star, there's Michael Clark Duncan, Chris Klein, and Rick Yune. Yes, I'm talking about the Klein from Election and American Pie. Surprised? Filling out the rest of the cast is Moon Bloodgood, Taboo from Black Eyed Peas, Edmund Chen, and Cheng Pei Pei. While Kreuk plays Chun-Li, Duncan will take on the role of Balrog, Yune, is the mystical Gen, and Klein will be Nash. As it breaks down in the game... Balrog* is M. Bison in Japan, and Vega outside. Since we're talking Duncan, that means M. Bison/Balrog -- a dude who holds a lot of similarities to a certain ear-biter. (This re-naming is ridiculous...) Gen, meanwhile, is an old, master assassin and friend of Chun-Li's father, who blames himself for the violent path the girl followed. And lastly, Klein's Nash -- also known as Charlie. This guy is a first lieutenant in the US Air Force who died in earlier games, but shows up in later ones, and is a friend of Guile.
I guess if Ryan Reynolds can take on Blade, anything is possible. But every time I try to think of Klein in this role, I hear him in his do-gooder voice saying: "Dear God, thank you for all your blessings. You've given me so many things, like good health, nice parents, a nice truck, and what I'm told is a large penis, and I'm very grateful, but I sure am worried about Tammy." And we can't forget -- Klein headed Rollerball.
*Post Edited: Variety says Bison, the villain, is still being cast, presumably that's this Bison/Vega. Stay tuned for more name confusion!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
2-19-2008 @ 1:42PM
Chris said...
Wasn't Balrog a boxer and Vega the bullfighter?
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2-19-2008 @ 1:46PM
Monika said...
Darn name changes! Thanks for the heads up, Chris. Balrog in Japan is Vega, Balrog elsewhere is M. Bison.
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2-19-2008 @ 1:53PM
Chris said...
Just to clarify (per Wikipedia):
"The boxer is known as M. Bison in Japan and Balrog elsewhere.
The Spanish assassin/bullfighter is known as Balrog in Japan and Vega elsewhere.
The evil dictator and head of Shadaloo is known as Vega in Japan and M. Bison elsewhere. "
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2-19-2008 @ 2:38PM
Nacho said...
This sounds bad. Really bad. "Nipples-on-the-bat-suit" bad.
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2-19-2008 @ 3:36PM
Ronan said...
Can't be worse than Van Damme's, can it?
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2-19-2008 @ 3:42PM
spinninnzen said...
Kreuk as Chun Li?? China running low on actresses that kick ass or something? I don't believe I'm going to say this but this movie might be worse then Van Dammes Street Fighter. If we are lucky maybe Uwe Boll will direct it.
/sigh
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2-19-2008 @ 4:28PM
madgamer said...
Kreuk is mega hot, and at least she is kind of Asian... it can't be worse than the last one.
2-19-2008 @ 4:31PM
John R said...
spinninnzen,
I'm with you. Allegedly Kruek does have some Asian heritage, here grandmother is Chinese I believe. Not good enough for me though. However, its not as bad a Justin Chatwin playing Gokou in Dragonball.
Rick Yune playing Gen is very interesting though. I would have had him pegged for Ryu.
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2-19-2008 @ 5:02PM
Batzarro said...
They get the American names for Balrog/Vega/Bison...but not Charlie? Althought, Charlie Nash, is easy on the ears. Also, the world needs more live action Charlie, so this is good. SOMMERSAULT!
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2-19-2008 @ 6:03PM
NitroFrost said...
Balrog was the original ending boss in STFII and M.Bison was the 1 of the final four who is a boxer to avoid law suite Capcom changed the twos name. There confusion solved ok.
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