The highway to growing Legendary’s new live-action Road Fighter film has been a bumpy one; the challenge misplaced administrators Danny & Michael Philippou final summer time when the filmmakers shifted to deal with Deliver Her Again. In the present day, Deadline experiences {that a} new director has taken the reins.
“Twisted Steel” and Dangerous Journey director Kitao Sakurai is formally taking up directorial duties from the Philippou brothers.
Sony Photos beforehand introduced that the brand new film primarily based on the favored online game franchise was set for theatrical launch on March 20, 2026. With the brand new director in place, this date will seemingly maintain nevertheless it’s nonetheless early but.
Legendary is co-developing and producing the live-action function with Capcom. Capcom’s well-liked franchise launched in 1987 with the arcade combating recreation Road Fighter, adopted by the much more well-liked Road Fighter II in 1991. The latest version, Road Fighter 6, was launched in June 2023 and gained the award for Greatest Combating Recreation on the 2023 Recreation Awards.
The franchise’s excessive recognition yielded one of many first live-action online game variations ever with 1994’s Road Fighter, which starred Jean-Claude Van Damme as Colonel Guile, Raúl Juliá because the villainous M. Bison, Ming-Na Wen as Chun-Li, and Kylie Minogue as Cammy. The plot follows Guile main a workforce of fighters to rescue hostages. Director Steven E. de Souza’s movie arrived at first of the online game adaptation development that launched with 1993’s Tremendous Mario Bros. movie. The Road Fighter franchise acquired one other live-action adaptation with twentieth Century Fox’s Road Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li in 2009, starring Kristin Kreuk as Chun-Li.
With the success of movies like Mortal Kombat, Sonic the Hedgehog, and 5 Nights at Freddy’s and its upcoming sequel, online game variations are again in drive. Additionally on the way in which is Christophe Gans’ Return to Silent Hill, although the continuation of the 2006 movie stays at the moment undated.
