I remem­ber the first film adap­tion of the very pop­u­lar video game Street Fighter, star­ring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Raul Julia and Kylie Minogue. As a mat­ter of fact, I still have a copy of the movie on VHS but I haven’t watched it in years. Back then when I was a youth it was a great movie. Nowa­days I couldn’t watch it with­out prej­u­dice. Any­way, accord­ing to Vari­ety there’s a new movie in the works and I’m not quite sure what to think of it.

Kristin Kreuk, who plays Lana Lang in the CW’s “Smal­l­ville”, will star as mar­tial artist Chun-Li. Michael Clarke Dun­can will play Bal­rog, Chris Klein will imper­son­ate Nash and Rick Yune will star as the mys­te­ri­ous Gen. Also on are Moon Blood­good, Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas, Edmund Chen and Cheng Pei Pei. Cur­rently, it is unclear as to who will step into the role of the big bad­die Bison. To me the cast doesn’t seem par­tic­u­larly over­whelm­ing. At least there’s fight chore­o­g­ra­pher Dion Lam who is han­dling the extreme fight sequences. He was also respon­si­ble for the fight scenes in The Matrix.

As far as the plot is con­cerned, not much is known at the time. Accord­ing to Vari­ety it will focus on the Chun-Li char­ac­ter. Well, I won­der how long they’re going to keep it under wraps. I don’t even know if I want to watch this movie. Seems like there’s noth­ing to do but wait for the first trailer.