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No Ken Or Ryu In 'Street Fighter' Film

Posted by Mike D'Alonzo - Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:32 PM

According to producer Patrick Aiello, the Street Fighter film will not contain Ken or Ryu, simply because there are too many characters to cram into one film. While he says that they will definitely not be making an appearance this time out, he does allow for the idea that they might show up some time in the future, if there are sequels.

He also said that the tone of the film will be more serious and less like a game, which means that you won't be seeing some of the more ludicrous things about the games in the movie, but not to worry, since they have you, the gamer, at heart while they are making it.

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Posted by mberko1 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 2:47 PM

thats pretty stupid, I thought Ryu and Ken were the main characters of the game. They have always been the most popular, but I really don't care and won't see this unless its on HBO

Posted by Vendetta187 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 2:52 PM

a low blow to fans everywhere.

you gotta have some serious balls to pull something like this off.

great job hollywood.

Posted by collinE - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 2:55 PM

boo. they are the main characters. weren't they the only guys you played as in the first street fighter?

Posted by little_eddy - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 2:58 PM

it's not street fighter without ryu and ken. what the hell are they thinking.

Posted by bullet53 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 3:25 PM

thats really stupid.....how can they take ryu and ken as secondary characters?.....those are the most popular characters!...i dont give a damn about bison vs guile!!!! (and i bet neither do you)it should be about ken and ryu vs akuma.

more serious? does that mean i wont see a hadouken?

to answer your question mike D'alonzo

no...i was....not anymore

Posted by IN_YO_FACE - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 3:27 PM

noooooooooo

Posted by RyuSensei - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 3:53 PM

A movie of a long running franchise without the main character. Word of God has stated in the past that Ryu is the main character and he isn't in the movie? So who's the lead? Guile? Chun-li? Dan? Yeah, it's probably going to be Dan considering how much these people know about this franchise.

Please tell me the folks at Epic Fail have already started their article about this.

Posted by WhereAmI1980 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 4:02 PM

No Ryu and Ken!!!!!!

too many characters!!!! I understand that but how could you not fit two of the most "arguable" characters in the movie, In my book they are the most important charcters!!!!!

thats like having a super mario brothers movie without mario or lugi... wait...

Posted by ChamplooCarolina - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 4:21 PM

What's the point of watching the film when Ryu and Ken ain't in anyway?

Posted by Letters2Kay - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 4:33 PM

It's official. Future epic fail.

Posted by TheRufio - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 4:44 PM

I don't get it.

Posted by wolftheory - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 5:20 PM

Hmm... didn't they put Ken and Ryu in the background for Guile in the last Street Fighter movie?
I guess if it worked once, it'll work again... wait...

Posted by shoryuking - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 5:31 PM

This is like that time i bough street fighter 2010 thinking it had to play something similar to street fighter.
What a let down.

Posted by shoryuking - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 5:33 PM

This is like that time i bough street fighter 2010 thinking it had to play something similar to street fighter.
What a let down.

Posted by 30below - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 5:48 PM

in other words the movie is going to suck. how can u make a movie based on a game without the 2 poster boys? thats like transformers with no prime. thats crazy.

Posted by OBELIX - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:06 PM

This is so screwed up. Ken and Ryu have been characters in the Street Fighter series since day one. These guys outlived Geki for Christ's sake! One more videogame movie I will never give the time of day.

Posted by trugamer83 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:32 PM

I think it may be a mistake, but at the same time, they wouldn't make such a bold move unless they felt it would hurt the story. After all, it is about Chun-Li, and having the two more popular characters in it might overshadow her as the star of the movie.

Posted by trugamer83 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:36 PM

ps. In the first Street Fighter movie, I think Chun-Li was the best character. She has the best back story as far as her reason for going after M. Bison (for those that don't know, He killed her father).

Posted by Poopelyse - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:36 PM

wait, didn't they already try making a Street Fighter movie?????? i guess it was SOOO bad everybody forgot about it.... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt01 11301/

Is Van Damme going to be in this one? I thought he was pretty good in Timecop.... just kidding.

Posted by trugamer83 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 6:39 PM

PPS. Chun-li will be played by that chick that plays Lana Lang on Smallville. Can't remember her real name but she's the main character.

Posted by crazykila93 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 7:49 PM

SUPER MEGA ELITE CHICKEN AND WAFFLES HUGE MONDO SUGAR SYSTEMIC EPIC FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

Posted by MetalLink666 - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 9:31 PM

other than blanka, guile, dhalsim, e. honda, zangief, and chun-li ryu and ken are the only characters i care about

Posted by cantonkid - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 10:30 PM

So let me get this straight, they are going to make a movie that is based on a video game, but take out all the main video game elements and just use the name because they have gaming fans (and their wallets) at heart?

That just sounds craptacular.

Filmmakers, you Fail before you begin.

Posted by Xsuit - Wednesday, June 4, 2008 10:51 PM

Too many characters? are they using alpha characters? Is this movie gonna be tier based? I get that it's based off of Chun Li but just how many others were more important than Ryu and Ken. Even if they "felt" they couldn't have them both, they couldn't have at least one of them?

Posted by mercisan - Thursday, June 5, 2008 12:47 AM

If there are too many characters, shouldn't they take the more important ones and forget about the ones with a less important role?
This guys don't seem to have any common sense. Who knows, it is so crazy it just might work.

Posted by TatsuyaDragon - Thursday, June 5, 2008 3:59 AM

no Ken or Ryu?? thats BS they are my favorite characters =\

Posted by balmung13 - Thursday, June 5, 2008 4:18 AM

without them it really isn't much of a street fighter movie now is it

Posted by awalker - Thursday, June 5, 2008 5:03 AM

How can you make a Street Fighter movie without Ryu & Ken the main characters? Thats the one of the dumbest idea's i've ever heard.

Posted by SpotRamer - Thursday, June 5, 2008 7:19 AM

Ryu and Ken are kind of Lame! I mean come on they kind of are! So Im glad their not in it!! Bullrog dosnt need to be in it either if their going for the "serious" approach! Sagat Best be in it or its a high possible chance that is going to suck!

Posted by chaychay - Thursday, June 5, 2008 7:39 AM

.......fail

Posted by culshadow23 - Thursday, June 5, 2008 7:51 AM

so no ken and ryu and it wont be like the game... well why not just give it a different name to the movie and it can be it's own entity????????/

Posted by Nibbins - Thursday, June 5, 2008 8:48 AM

and in other news, the super mario movie wont feature mario or luigi

Posted by RockMax - Thursday, June 5, 2008 9:41 AM

Geezus, when one hears Street Fighter, the first two characters to pop into your mind are Ryu and Ken. Kreuk is hot, but an entire movie centered around Chun Li won't be getting my moneys. I'm sorry, I needs my Hadoukens...

Posted by galvan - Thursday, June 5, 2008 9:52 AM

i guess not many will ses the movie...im not wtf how could this happend....main cahracters.... they must have bin drunk or high to have that idea to take them out.....

ndont meant to go of the this....they did it like in x-men when they did out gambit in there.....dotn know if thats how u spell his name....the mo fo with the cards.....

Posted by darkhiei - Thursday, June 5, 2008 10:28 AM

WTF this is a dumb decision any street fighter fan that had some interest in this probably just lost it. No Ken and Ryu, might as well make a Naruto movie staring Sakura and not feature Naruto or Sasuke.

Posted by johhnymayhem - Thursday, June 5, 2008 11:21 AM

Like Halo movie with no Master Chief,

Zelda movie with no Link,

Castlevania without a Belmont.

Posted by Velocity2k - Thursday, June 5, 2008 11:35 AM

This is EXACTLY why the first Street Fighter movie was such an EPIC FAIL!! In the first movie while Ken and Ryu where in the movie- they wheren't the main characters. The game Street Figher is specifically about Ryu with Ken as a supporting character. If film makers where concerned that there where too many characters then they should've elimanated all others EXEPT for Ryu and Ken. It's not that I like them more than any others featured in the game (in fact Honda is my fav; I can't play Ken/Ryu for d*ck). But the fact of the matter is that this game and this movie should be all about Ryu & Ken. I'd be like making Metroid w/o Samus. THIS is why video game movies fail- because movie makers completely ignore the source material. If they paid ANY attention at all they would know that in the first Street Fighter game Ryu & Ken where the only playable characters. So, now they're not going to be in THEIR OWN MOVIE!?!

Posted by dontadow - Monday, June 9, 2008 8:29 AM

Wow, who let another bunch of morons make a street fighter game. I hope this doesn't hurt Street Fighter 4 sales.

The reason why the anime is great (all of them) and the movie sucked, was because someone attempted to write his own story on the street fighter universe in the movie.

Hey producer, here's a clue. the game is about Ryu with some nods to Ken. FOcusing the game on Chung Li is like making a Spiderman Movie focused on Aunt Mae.

Wow, this guy sounds like an idiot. How can you make a game adaptation and say that you don't like the game elements.

Posted by eddix5 - Tuesday, June 10, 2008 8:02 PM

okay it was bad enough to have guile as the main character in the old movie, and it was even worst when ryu and ken were the secondary characters, and it was even worser (is this a real word??) that they had chanclca vamdam(i dont care about his name) playing as guile; but now they wont put ryu and ken in the movie?????
im sure about one thing, they will kill this,and whoever is making this is truly brain less and doesnt know squat about the public, im not going to see the movie, thats that.

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