Street Fighter Casting News: 50 Cent is Balrog, Jason Momoa is Blanka

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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is taking it to the street. The rapper turned actor and entrepreneur has joined the eclectic cast of Street Fighter, Legendary Entertainment's feature adaptation of the classic Capcom video game. And what a diverse bunch it is. The call sheet ranges from A-lister Jason Momoa as Blanka to heartthrob Noah Centineo as Ken to gay country singer Orville Peck as Vega. Joe Anoa'i, aka WWE superstar Roman Reign, and martial artist-actor Andrew Koji (Warrior), are on the roll call as battler Akuma and lead character Ryu, respectively. Callina Liang (Presence) is playing Chun-Li.

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50 Cent as Balrog seems kind of random, but we'll see what happens. It will be terrible, but I'm wondering if it will be even worst than the first movie?
 
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Exactly 50 can't act.
Yep, he excels at one specific style of acting which he has shown in 'Power' and 'Get Rich or Die Trying.' Anything else and he falters.

The only slight positive from this is that maybe we will see a version of Balrog that is more grounded/street and less caricature/cartoon.
 
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Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson is taking it to the street. The rapper turned actor and entrepreneur has joined the eclectic cast of Street Fighter, Legendary Entertainment's feature adaptation of the classic Capcom video game. And what a diverse bunch it is. The call sheet ranges from A-lister Jason Momoa as Blanka to heartthrob Noah Centineo as Ken to gay country singer Orville Peck as Vega. Joe Anoa'i, aka WWE superstar Roman Reign, and martial artist-actor Andrew Koji (Warrior), are on the roll call as battler Akuma and lead character Ryu, respectively. Callina Liang (Presence) is playing Chun-Li.

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50 is an actor? Damn dude must be like 60 years old now
 
"Can't wait" to see another modern, disaterous and cringe af SF movie adaptation. Recent MK ones were more than enough to never watch any movies based on fighting games ever again.
 
I like how you guys are complaining about 50's acting. It's a Street Fighter movie. He can act as good as I expect this movie to be.

I had no idea it was even a thing until I saw this thread.
 
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Whatever happened to the people that made Street Fighters Assassin Fists? That movie was actually a good Street Fighters movie. I was hoping that the movie profit enough money to make Street Fighters 2.

I'll definitely watch this new Street Fighters movie when it is release next year (or 2027) but I'm not counting on it hitting box office records.
 

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Legendary's feature adaptation of the Capcom video game Street Fighter is getting a strong boost of comic relief as sources tell Deadline that Andrew Schulz has joined the cast. While not confirmed, sources say he will play the character Dan Hibiki. He joins a cast that includes the previously announced Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, Jason Momoa, Roman Reigns and Orville Peck. Bad Trip's Kitao Sakurai is the director.


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The only good street fighter movie was the animated 90s anime...in english. Not the subbed version. I don't think that will ever change.

Just like the first Mortal Kombat movie is the best, and only....though the animated ones were alright.
 
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50 Cent as Balrog seems kind of random, but we'll see what happens. It will be terrible, but I'm wondering if it will be even worst than the first movie?

100% yes. The first movie was self aware of it being bad. The behind the scenes stuff are a great read by the way.

This movie is probably trying to take itself more seriously like the last MK movie. It will be forgettable while everyone remembers SF '94 still, for me its Tuesday.
 
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