In an interview given back in April 2010, at Capcom's Captivate, GamerLive.tv spoke with Capcom U.S.A. Vice President, Christian Svensson. Based on the fact that Capcom has had such success with the Resident Evil films, what do you think didn’t translate when it came to the two Street Fighter movies? You weren’t at the company for Street Fighter: The Movie, but you were for Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
Oh, my. There’s a book to be written there. This is where I have to be careful. Let’s just say there were a lot of people with different ideas as to what was the best route to take with that movie. A path was chosen, a result was had. I think there are some learnings internally that we’ve taken away from that experience. I think you’ll see some clever live-action stuff that will excite our fans at some point in the future, based on Street Fighter. Let’s just say that the book is not yet done on Street Fighter film and video projects.
Well, you get three strikes, so you have one more chance to get it right on the big screen.
Well, hopefully we get one right sometime in the future. There are more projects in the works.
Christian also went on to add this comment about the direction of the company.
*Face palm*I want to punch this interviewer in the face for mentioning the resident evil films as "successful" which while they made there money back,barely with Extinction with the FILMING budget(not including promotional budget) being 45 million and their box office being 50 million.
I just hope they get actors like Legacy who are professional stuntmen who can act decently and LOVE the source material
Chris Klein LOVES HIS JOB!!!!
seriously though, don't even try to make a live action street fighter movie. They should make it in CG ala Final Fantasy advent children. So they can make it as dark as they want it to be.
@f1ip: LMAO! That's funny, especially if you're being serious
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNjIgr...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mwHMS...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stKp-f...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HATO7g...
Those are all pretty damn lame, and even Gen's comes off as pretty lame
I love it when they try to make excuses for projects that were doomed from the start.
Kristen Kreuk was an ABYSMAL choice for Madame Chun-Li.
The attempts to make it 'grim and gritty' come across as a little creepy.
The script was idiotic at best, and the director was completely terrible.
I'm still confused as to why they think anyone would have any interest in more movies, after the last two bombed so badly.
And f1ip If you're talking about Onimusha and Devil May Cry and Lost Planet even Resident Evil, those aren't really good either, they have style and action to them but dialogue kills them 95% of the time
and unless capcom knew it going to work and make profit they wouldn't pull their big names off projects that they might be making in secret.
If you want to make a good movie. The safest and best thing to do is just follow how characters look in the game and the plot. It is not hard to do that. Easier than coming up with very random movie ideas and character costumes that you know won't work well.
You want to know why the Street Fighter movies have failed? It's because no one ever looks into SF's Story. They take one look at someone like Chun Li, an Interpool agent and Police Officer, and said "let's make her a pianist and get that chick from Smallville to play her". They fail because they don't know who these characters are and just bad CASTING.
Say remember Street Fighter 2: the Animated Movie? Remember how AWESOME THAT WAS! Everyone made it into the movie, they got all the character right, beautifully animated, great fight scenes, and it got Capcom to make Alpha. Also we saw Chun Li NAKED (Chun Li + naked = AWESOME!) That was the only good SF movie very made (although I will say I thought SF: Alpha the Movie wasn't half bad, not great but not bad ether.) How about Hollywood take that movie an show it in theaters, that'll make you some money.
@John Johnson
yeah, SF2 movie was so good. That had the perfect amount of "darkness" to it, definitely not a PG movie. These same reasons why they shouldn't make it live action.
Where are they gonna find an 8th foot muay thai fighter...a female martial artist with big boobs...or any person as ripped/big as ryu?
Making the SF movie CG is the only way to go! and let the japanese animators do it and not with that american animation BS(like pixar, disney, etc). To make a great SF movie, don't make the americans make it.
After a great viewing of Inception last night I decided to watch the Street Fighter 1994 movie for the first time directly after with some other SF players. It was the best cheese I've probably ever seen. "Change the channel!"
King of Sharks the thing is while it's great cheese in general it does almost nothing for the street fighter scene if it had something that street fighter fans could quote much like "but for me it was Tuesday" because that seems like something Bison would say in the video games and be serious about it. Raul Julia at least felt like he was playing Bison in some form while everyone else had become action hero stereotypes and comic relief.
@VegaBisonAbel
Sagat is 7'5 and trust me you can find a 7'5 muay thai fighter if you can find a 7'7 basketball playing Chinese-man
There are a couple with big boobs just need to do research
and I rather not have someone as ripped as Ryu is in the video games or atleast not SF4, http://img54.imageshack.us/f/ryusdr3.... I believe they should go for an actor that looks somewhat between Alpha and street fighter 2
Chun-Li's Spinning Bird Kick was mind-blowing in Legend!
Just to tell you how bad the live action Resident evil films have been 50, The last airbender is currently sitting on over 130 million dollars in box office.....yes that's right a movie that was panned by almost EVERY CRITIC in the USA has made twice as much money in box office sales over every live action resident evil movie(by themselves) and by this next week maybe more than all 3 put together.(RE1 brought in 41 million, RE2 brought in 52 million and RE3 broguth in 50 million)
Halo if that was the attitude of every licensed franchise we wouldn't have had Star Trek 2009 and The Dark Knight, which came on the heels of horrible sequels of their licensees.
And they did go to hollywood and got SF1994 and then they went to a smaller company and got Chun-li
The problem with game movies, especially fighting game movies, is that they are too soft. They make the mistake of trying to go for a younger/wider audience. Problem is, the people that made their games big in the first place are adults now and STILL playing.
People in these movies need to get straight MESSED UP. None of this Zangief "you... got paid?" ridiculous nonsense. I want to see him piledrive someone through a glass table. Then I want to see the victim BLEEDING PROFUSELY.
Less pantomine more STRAIGHT VIOLENCE. That's why Resident Evil is more successful.
We need a Dan movie staring Steven Segal as long as we get him to act serious and no one tells him it's a parody movie.
#29 i said they should give it up if they plan on continuing the doomed path they have been on till today. The Legend of Chun Li was INEXCUSABLE. If they wanted to take this seriously they should approach a well respected director and writer, pay extra attention to casting and figure out how to stay close to the SF canon series and make a good film for a change. How is that?
Tony Jaa - Ryu
Jackie Chan - Gen
Jet Li - Fei Long
Sagat - There must be a mean 7 foot plus Thai guy with one eye some where
Vega - Tall gymnast who can do random flips at will
Ken - Brad Pitt haha
Guy - that dude from District 13
You lot can finish the rest
Just put fight scenes with decent combos that we can all relate to, screw the story line. Decent.
The only good thing about the Chun Li movie was the white girl playing Chun li (I know she's like 1/2 chinese but she doesn't look it).
They should just keep it imo at anime (for which you don't have to find people that actually look like the SF-characters,just get decent voice actors).
I wouldn't mind seeing an anime movie about SF1.
@Winston That somehow sounds like a damn good cast, esoecially Jet Li as Fei Long. As for Sagat there was a muay thai fighter with an eyepatch that he was actually based off of but he might too old by now to play him. I still think that any films should be animated though.
I think Juicebox vs Scumbag who threw his stick comeback should have been here.
#34: "Just put fight scenes with decent combos that we can all relate to, screw the story line."
Right, because the best movies are always about "combos" and not telling stories visually.
Recreating video game action when that action is readily available in its primary medium already is a waste of time. Adaptation is not re-creation.
Even ff every single person capable of recognizing two Street Fighter combos bought a ticket on opening night, such a film wouldn't make its budget back. It's the fact that the characters and imagery are known even to audiences that don't play video games that makes Hollywood come calling.
@5- True. I dont know if live action is the way to make a good SF movie. Perhaps a final fantasy type CGI movie is the way forward.
@34- Watch Ong Bak : The beginning. Theres this 7 foot Thai dude that would be perfect for Sagat.
@37- Yup ur right. Pai Mei from Kill Bill would be perfect for Gen.
Sorry to say but Ex_Ein
Your wrong your problem is your only saying what they made in the U.S overall all the resident evil films made over 100 million.
Resident Evil:
Apocalypse
Domestic: $51,201,453 39.6%
+ Foreign: $78,193,382 60.4%
= Worldwide: $129,394,835
@#43 - seen ong bak, sick film, good idea :)
@#41 - its that attitude why sf films have flopped. Ever thought fuuck hollywood and try to appeal to a world wide audience keeping to the proven system of the game.
Its Street Fighter, who really gives a toss about adaptation? Learn that SF films have flopped for a reason and it has nothing to do with the budget. There's always one person that will take a bit of hypothetical fun and try to undermine and make other peoples comments look stupid. Do you cut yourself?
@Halo
They did stay close to canon in chunli
-Chun-li's father was killed by Bison
-Bison runs Shadaloo
-Chun-li becomes Interpol
-Chun-li is trained by Gen who knew her father
-Boxer and Claw worked for Bison
-The only blaring thing I don't see in there is it doesn't take place in a fighting turny. but it did contain fighting.
So yes it stuck closely to Chun-li's Canon without straight up going and doing alpha, it was badly written, badly directed. and Never said it was excusable
Sorry major error on last post
@Neosmoke
"Last airbender" Won't be fully released around the world until late October
with the last release 2 date being:
Switzerland 24 September 2010 (Italian language)
Greece 28 October 2010
But seriously just off it's US release it's made more money domestically then Apocalypse or Foreign(separate) for the same movie and it's a movie PANNED BY ALMOST EVER US CRITIC.
@ Ex_Ein
You said The Last Airbender made 135 million when that's what it has made worldwide so far. Why compare worldwide Last Airbender to domestic Resident Evil film totals that's why I said you were wrong. You made no mention of how much Resident films made overall worldwide. In domestic alone all three resident evil films made over 140 million. Last Airbender has 115 million domestic and haven't even gotten near their productiopn budget. Overall worldwide Resident evil films made over 360 million.
The Last Airbender
Domestic: $116,185,633 85.3%
+ Foreign: $20,000,000 14.7%
= Worldwide: $136,185,633
Production bugget=150 million
Resident evil films domestic total=$141,969,841
Resident evil films worldwide=over 360 million
You can't compare worldwide to one and domestic the others.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?...
I made some major typo's but oh well I wish eventhubs let you edit.
The first two Resident evil films overall cost capcom around 78 million and with extinction it probably cost around the same thing between 30-60 million, which is 100-140 million budget. So with that budget they got 360 million+ out of just those three movies and they have another on the way. Overall I'd say Resident Evil was very successful as a movie franchise.
Production Budget 100-140 million but get 360 million+
Really Admin you had to get the Chris Klein picture out? why not Raul Julia hell even Taboo as Vega