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Street Fighter: Five musts for the live action movie to succeed

By Mark Lynch

PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 18: A kid plays a video game "Street Fighter" developed by Capcom during an electronic video game tournament at the eSports World Convention (ESWC) on February 18, 2017 in Paris, France. The ESWC is the historic and emblematic event of electronic sports, bringing together every year since 2003 the best players in the world in video game tournaments designed as real live shows and broadcast live on the Internet or on television. 20 of the biggest American teams of Call of Duty will be present to compete in the tournament CWL Paris Open. Never had an event organized in Europe so much engaged the American eSport community. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
PARIS, FRANCE - FEBRUARY 18: A kid plays a video game "Street Fighter" developed by Capcom during an electronic video game tournament at the eSports World Convention (ESWC) on February 18, 2017 in Paris, France. The ESWC is the historic and emblematic event of electronic sports, bringing together every year since 2003 the best players in the world in video game tournaments designed as real live shows and broadcast live on the Internet or on television. 20 of the biggest American teams of Call of Duty will be present to compete in the tournament CWL Paris Open. Never had an event organized in Europe so much engaged the American eSport community. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) /
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LOS ANGELES, CA – JUNE 15: Capcom’s “Street Fighter 5” is introduced during the Sony E3 press conference at the L.A. Memorial Sports Arena on June 15, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. The Sony press conference is held in conjunction with the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) which focuses on gaming systems and interactive entertainment, featuring introductions to new products and technologies. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images) /

There will be another live-action Street Fighter project coming and these five things are needed to make it successful.

Street Fighter has produced two live-action movies. Both were failures. The first had issues with everything from the casting to the story. What’s sad is that Raul Julia put on a heck of a performance as Bison.

Meanwhile, Jean-Claude Van Damme was the exact opposite. He was more of a parody of a character than anything else. It’s become one of the many action movies that are watched because they’re so bad it’s comical. Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li was just bad. That’s all that needs to be said about that.

The Hollywood Reporter announced that a live-action Street Fighter movie is in the works and may have found its directors. Australian brothers Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk to Me) may have been tapped to direct the video game adaptation. Hopefully, they can continue the trend of good video game projects that Super Maria Bros and The Last of Us started.

Unfortunately, it’s going to take more than just great directors to make this a good movie. Fans may get to a point where they believe it’s not possible to adapt Street Fighter into a live-action movie. Especially when the animated movies are so well done. In order for this to be successful, here are some things that are a must.

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