come on guys this is going to be awesome!!!!
ummmm no.....I won't mind seeing KK on the outfit but that's about it
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Early Script Review
STREET FIGHTER by Justin Marks
Script review by Jack Flack
Jack Flack here to bring you a look at the STREET FIGHTER screenplay. It’s being written by that same guy who wrote He-Man and Voltron. Yeah, Justin Marks is the guy to be to bring you retrogeekicity to that big screen.
First off videogame movies suck. They do. Wing Commander, Double Dragon, Tomb Raider (though the second was ‘eh’), Bloodrayne, Doom, House of the Dead, Alone In The Dark…the list can go on. Now the recent DOA was BAD but at least it was soft-pornish. Resident Evil was great but bogged down by a horrible part two. Same goes with Mortal Kombat. Super Mario Brothers might be god-awful but its watchable to me for at least being so-bad-it’s-great.
Which brings us to Street Fighter. Back in 1994 we were treated to a big-screen version of the classic Capcom fighter starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Now we all know his acting is wooden so there’s no excuse going to a Van Damme movie and being like, “Van Damme he can’t act!”
But first off Raul Julia is a God and he’s a bad guy in this movie. However the big man was dying of cancer during this film and it showed. He was white, gaunt, and skinny and by the time we had Van Damme’s Guile facing off against Julia’s Bison it didn’t matter how much special effects they put on screen. It still looked like Bad Actor Man beating up Sickly Old Guy.
The flick was supposed to be cheesy there’s no denying that. They did try to stuff in as many characters from the games as possible, I guess to try and satisfy fans? I would think making a good movie would do that but that’s just crazy talk. Street Fighter at least had some smokin’ hot babes including Ming-Na as Chun-Li and super hottie singer Kylie Minogue as Cammy. However there’s so much bad in the film that you start making a list of bad starting with the opening credits and be passed a hundred items within a half an hour.
So it’s hard to get excited about a new Street Fighter movie when you remember classic Van Damme lines like “You hostages! If you can hear me, we're coming! We're coming! Charlie! Charlie, hang on, buddy! We're coming! We're coming! Hang on, buddy!”
However Justin Marks, in his 114 paged adaptation, does something that perhaps most videogame adapters should do. Take some characters and find what is good from the videogame.
The new flick centers on one character: Chun-Li. That’s it. No Ryu, no Ken, no Guile, no eight million characters. Now if you are going to get up-in-arms about this why not rent the original Street Fighter to see how you can do it wrong. However we do get a bunch of Street Fighter bad guys.
The movie is a revenge flick. Chun-Li’s father works for Bison. Chun-Li is just a child when Bison comes to her house and takes her father away. Papa never returns and Chun-Li grows up to still be a good person, helping people on the street when she sees them in trouble in her home town of Hong Kong. While Chun-Li was growing up Bison was growing his organization. Taking on the Triads, Bison and his Shadow Law Organization take over the Kowloon district of Hong Kong.
Chun-Li’s mother dies and now she has no one. She searches out a man called Gen and it is he who tells her that her father is actually still alive in the hands of Bison. Chun-Li then trains with Gen. She becomes faster! Stronger! She is…THE STREET FIGHTER!
The movie is a revenge flick plain and simple. There’s some awesome kung-fu action in the script but there’s no fireballs. No sonic booms. No flash kicks. Pure and simple Chun-Li is on a mission to find her father and take down Bison.
She has help along the way. Mostly in a fellow named Nash who has come in from Interpol and is teamed with Detective Chu – with the Hong Kong gangland homicide division.
Bison has a few baddies with him. His right hand man is Balrog who had those boxing gloves on in the videogame. Here he’s in his thirties and massive. Monster massive. Vega is here as well, described as talking in a Spanish accent. Yes he has his expressionless mask, his steel claw on his arm, and he’s also someone who even a man like Balrog fears.
The script moves pretty fluidly. We move from scene after scene mostly following Chun-Li taking down Bison piece by piece. It intersects with Bison’s storyline himself and that of Nash before him and Chun-Li meet up.
There’s a lot of emphasis here on actual story. On great kung-fu sequences. And violence. The violence is here in the script though I’m sure it’ll be shot differently to get a PG-13 rating.
Script does get a bit corny when we are introduced to Bison’s private army, tanks and all. However this is a lone gripe and therefore, thinking back to Raul Julia shouting “GAME OVER!” it is easily forgiven.
So the fight scenes are big and grandiose, the kind that spring right off the page at you. Mostly it is Chun-Li and her mentor Gen Vs. Bison, Balrog, Vega, and the little nameless minions.
This is a Hong Kong flick through-and-through. No travels to the States or some wildlife retreat. It’s an Eastern – made by the West.
Now if they choose to go with this script they could have the potential of breaking the mold of the videogame movie and actually have a franchise. Whoever plays Chun-Li will have a monster role in her hands. The script could have had a few more recognizable good or bad guys but, once again thinking back to the original Street Fighter movie, maybe it’s not a good idea.
You have your characters and Chun-Li is the Street Fighter. And she attacks people with her thighs. That’s always good for a film.
ADIOS!
