Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li on Feb 27

20th Century Fox unleashes this videogame adaptation on February 27. Although derived from the “Street Fighter” franchise, it is not a sequel to the 1990s Jean-Claude Van Damme STREET FIGHTER; rather, it jump-starts a new storyline, a la BATMAN BEGINS. The new film focuses on subsidiary character Chun-Li (Kristen Kreuk), an Interpol agent who joins a fight tournament in order to get close to the villainous Bison (Neal McDonough). Michael Clark Duncan co-stars for Andrzej Bartkowiak (DOOM), who directed from a screenplay adapted by Justin Marks, who says the fantasy elements have been someone toned down from the game:

Although we do have a few moments that are going to be a little more “out there,” the rule we established was that anything in this movie has to come from character. So, for example, Bison flying or shooting electrical beams is pretty hard to believe. But there are other things he does that come from a true place of evil. A small portion of the film devotes itself to Bison’s origin, so we begin to understand how he became what he is. 

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