Roman Reigns in talks for Street Fighter movie

[Chris]

Andrew Koji, Jason Momoa, Noah Centineo & Roman Reigns In Talks For Legendary’s ‘Street Fighter’

Legendary's 'Street Fighter' movie has Andrew Koji, Jason Momoa, Noah Centineo & Roman Reigns in talks to star, sources tell Deadline.

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Andrew Koji (Bullet Train), Jason Momoa (A Minecraft Movie), Noah Centineo (Warfare) and Roman Reigns (Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw) are in talks to star in Legendary’s live-action Street Fighter movie, based on the Capcom video games, sources tell Deadline.

Reps for the studio declined comment, and the plot of the film remains under wraps. In February, Bad Trip‘s Kitao Sakurai boarded as director, inheriting the project from Talk To Me‘s Danny & Michael Philippou, who attached themselves in April of 2023, following Legendary’s acquisition of exclusive film and TV rights to the Street Fighter IP. The film adaptation is being co-developed and co-produced alongside Capcom, the developer and publisher of the video games. No word has emerged yet on who has written and who specifically will produce the actioner.

Launched in 1987, Street Fighter is a series of fighting games revolving around intense one-on-one battles between a diverse cast of martial artists. The games often center around a global fighting tournament organized by M. Bison, the leader of the evil organization Shadaloo. Street Fighter has sold over 55 million units worldwide since launch, making it one of the most well-known and highest-grossing video game franchises of all time.

Known for roles on the series Warrior and Gangs of London, as well as films like Bullet Train and Boy Kills World, Koji will next be seen starring in the Tubi Original Worth the Wait and Prime Video heist series Haven, among other projects. He is repped by Conway van Gelder Grant, Principal Entertainment LA, and Myman Greenspan Fox.

Coming off of Warner Bros and Legendary’s phenomenon A Minecraft Movie, which is approaching $1B at the global box office, Momoa will next be seen starring in Apple’s miniseries Chief of War, out August 1, and Legendary’s live action/animated road trip adventure Animal Friends, out October 10. Other upcoming projects include Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow (where he plays Lobo), Dune: Messiah (where he reprises as Duncan Idaho), and action comedy The Wrecking Crew opposite Dave Bautista, to name just a few. He is repped by WME and Edelstein, Laird & Sobel.

Most recently seen starring in A24’s intensely immersive Warfare, from Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza, as well as Netflix’s spy series The Recruit, Centineo is repped by WME and Myman Greenspan Fox.

A pro wrestler born Leati Joseph Anoa’i with one of the longest world title reigns in the history of the WWE, Reigns has previously made appearances in films like Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw and The Wrong Missy. He is repped by Bad Toro and Torres Benet.

 

[R-Troop]

Fightful was saying that he is rumored to be in talks to play Akuma.

Have no idea who is playing the other characters but ilhaving Momka and Roman in the same movie is funny given they look alike.

 

[Kairi HoHo]

Roman as Akuma could work because of his personality Mamoa would be better for the role I think. I just wonder if either guy can do his thing with the Martial Arts when it's time to face Ryu and Ken. Koji was amazing on Warrior guys like I thought he would be a great Ryu and that is rumored to his role if not Fei Long which be funny because his Character on Warrior was based off Bruce Lee's Writings for the Show and Character.

Centineo is rumored to be Ken for the SF Movie. I just saying the other day we needed some new SF mostly Animated but I'll take this.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Fightful was saying that he is rumored to be in talks to play Akuma.

Have no idea who is playing the other characters but ilhaving Momka and Roman in the same movie is funny given they look alike.

That would be a horrible , horrible casting. I don't really think it would make any sense and I genuinely would be mortified (akuma us a Japanese demon infused character who studied under a Japanese master. Like wtf)

I struggle to think of any character him or mamoa could even play outside of Necali, T Hawk or Rashid

 

[Comrade Khan]

Anyways this movie seems like it's gonna suck major ass like every other attempt at street fighter.

 

[Comrade Khan]

Roman as Akuma could work because of his personality Mamoa would be better for the role I think. I just wonder if either guy can do his thing with the Martial Arts when it's time to face Ryu and Ken. Koji was amazing on Warrior guys like I thought he would be a great Ryu and that is rumored to his role if not Fei Long which be funny because his Character on Warrior was based off Bruce Lee's Writings for the Show and Character.

Centineo is rumored to be Ken for the SF Movie. I just saying the other day we needed some new SF mostly Animated but I'll take this.

I don't understand how roman or akuma have similar personality at all. Akuma is a loner god of destruction . He rarely talks and just wants to fight everyone to death .

 

[OMB]

I watched Boy Kills World last night and absolutely loved it, might be because im a big Jessica Rothe fan. I do think the director would done a great borderlands movie personally. I am not going to act like I deep dived Street Fighter cause I haven't I know Vega & eddy and i know that the henidoken came from that. I think Koji was alright in it mostly fine. I do like Mamoa though.