Street Fighter

[jess1581]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

Make a CGI animated movie based exactly on the Sprites of Street Fighter 2, and then you have the starting foundation. Do not use live-action for this series. They characters are clearly beyond normal humans.

Super Mario may convince studios to go that route.

[Zivouhr]

Also, hopefully no origin story which slows things down to a crawl most times. Just create a story for the main conflict for why they're needing to fight, and have lots of fights, maybe 50% fighting, 50% story.

You can have Ken or Ryu and Chun Li have their motivations for fighting without needing to show their origins. Maybe have them on a quest to find out how to stop M. Bison, and then Bison sends Sagat, Balrog, and Vega after them.
The whole tournament story is tricky, best to just have good vs evil and fight along the way, avoiding the whole "Mortal Kombat" story focused on a tournament all the time. Maybe have M. Bison inside his HQ Base, protected by his fighters and Ryu and Ken and the gang have to break through by winning fights.

And include all 12 of the main SFII characters.
Ryu
Ken
Chun Li
Blanka
Zangief
E. Honda
Dhalsim
Guile
Balrog
Sagat
Vega
M. Bison

Focus on the heroes' story, but have the villains be the instigators for why they have to fight. At least that's how I would hope they would go.
Just rough ideas, but hopefully they go with something original if they go forward.



I watched the anime Street Fighter The Movie back in the 1990s, but thought it was just okay.

Originally Posted by jess1581

Super Mario may convince studios to go that route.

Thanks. Yes, it's true to the games, avoiding straying too far off the mark like the live-action Super Mario Bros, or the live-action Street Fighter Van Damme film.

The Mortal Kombat 2021 movie was decent, but a lot of origin stuff again and too much time spent with Kano IMO.

[jess1581]

Originally Posted by Zivouhr

Thanks. Yes, it's true to the games, avoiding straying too far off the mark like the live-action Super Mario Bros, or the live-action Street Fighter Van Damme film.

The Mortal Kombat 2021 movie was decent, but a lot of origin stuff again and too much time spent with Kano IMO.

Yeah, I enjoyed MK21 mildly, but it was all set up no real story. MK95 was at least a full on movie that had a plot and even without gore managed to be a blast.