After months of hypothesis and rumors, Legendary Footage has lastly confirmed all of the casting noise surrounding the brand new movie adaptation of Capcom’s iconic combating online game franchise, Road Fighter. Followers are laughing to cover their ache.

The forged for Road Fighter Film is about, and it’s stacked with skilled wrestlers, musicians, actors, and an MMA fighter.

If you want we had been kidding, sadly, we’re useless critical.

The movie is at the moment on monitor for an October sixteenth, 2026, launch, and based on posts from the film’s official social channels, it should star large names like Jason Momoa, 50 Cent, Orville Peck, and Eric André.

There have additionally been images of the forged collectively on location, filming the upcoming venture.

The information confirms the early rumors that G-Unit common will play the function of Capcom’s Mike Tyson knockoff, and Shadowloo operative Balrog, and regretful Trump voter, Andrew Schulz, as Dan.

Additionally within the movie are WWE Superstars Cody Rhodes as Guile and Roman Reigns as Akuma, which is an absolute headscratcher concerning casting.

Here’s a full breakdown of the movie’s forged:

• Andrew Koji is Ryu
• Noah Centineo is Ken
• Callina Liang is Chun-li
• Cody Rhodes is Guile
• Orville Peck is Vega
• 50 Cent is Balrog
• Jason Momoa is Blanka
• Vidyut Jammwal is Dhalsim
• Olivier Richters is Zangief
• Nirooki Goto is E. Honda
• David Dastmalchian is M. Bison
• Roman Reigns is Akuma
• Andrew Shulz is Dan Hibiki
• Eric André is Don Sauvage
• Mel Jarnson is Cammy
• Rayna Vallandingham is Juli
• Alexander Volkanovski is Joe

Ummm, okay.

The Plot Sounds First rate

As for the movie’s plot, The Hollywood Reporter has revealed the movie’s logline, which confirms that the combating motion will happen within the 90s and can observe the rivalry between pals Ken Masters and Ryu.

Per The Hollywood Reporter:

Set in 1993, estranged Road Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown again into fight when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the subsequent World Warrior Event: a brutal conflict of fists, destiny, and fury. However behind this battle royale lies a lethal conspiracy that forces them to face off in opposition to one another and the demons of their previous. And in the event that they don’t, it’s GAME OVER!

Nonetheless, with all that data out, avid gamers and followers of the Road Fighter online game franchise who’re nonetheless recovering from the dreadful 1994 movie starring Belgian actor Jean-Claude Van Damme because the proud to be American world warrior, Guile, don’t really feel any higher about this upcoming adaptation regardless of the bar being set within the lowest depths of Hades.

We’re gonna be skeptical right here, and provides director Kitao Sakurai the advantage of the doubt, being that he doesn’t should clear a very excessive bar with this movie. If it’s respectable, followers can be content material, however hear, if it’s canine sh*t, or by some means even worse than the 1994 movie, he and everybody concerned won’t ever hear the top of it.

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