The Road Fighter franchise is getting one other shot to shine in a cinematic setting following 1994’s Road Fighter and 2009’s Road Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li. During the last a number of months, there have been varied reviews and rumors in regards to the Road Fighter reboot’s forged, and now we lastly have the official lineup. Even higher, this announcement was made in a splendidly nostalgic approach.
The nice people over at Paramount Photos and Legendary Leisure put a twist on the display screen the place you chose your participant in 1991’s Road Fighter II, some of the profitable arcade video video games of all time, to unveil which actors will likely be featured within the subsequent Road Fighter film on Instagram. See for your self by going by way of the slides under:
Whereas I want that the accompanying music may have been added, that is nonetheless an A+ effort with saying the Road Fighter forged in a singular approach. Right here’s the record of the starring actors:
- Andrew Koji as Ryu
- Noah Centineo as Ken
- Callina Liang as Chun-Li
- Cody Rhodes as Guile
- Orville Peck as Vega
- 50 Cent as Balrog
- Jason Momoa as Blanka
- Vidyut Jammwal as Dualism
- Olivier Richters as Zangief
- Hirooki Goto as E. Hinda
- David Dastmalchian as M. Bison
- Roman Reigns as Akuma
- Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki
- Eric André as Don Sauvage
- Mel Jarnson as Cammy
- Rayna Vallandingham as Juli
- Alexander Volkanovski as Joe
As talked about earlier, a few of these people we already knew about. It was reported in Could that Koji, Momoa, Reigns and Centineo had been all in talks to hitch Road Fighter. Phrase of Peck, André, Liang, Schulz, Dastmalchian, Jammwal and Rhodes’ potential involvement adopted not lengthy after. Momoa even posted a enjoyable Aquaman-adjacent response to Schulz when he shared that he would certainly seem in Road Fighter.
Along with the casting announcement, we additionally know that Road Fighter will now punch its approach into theaters on October 16, 2026. The film was beforehand going to be launched March 20 of the identical 12 months, again when it was nonetheless arrange at Sony Photos, however it was taken off the calendar this previous March. As reported by Selection, Road Fighter would be the first launch in a three-year deal that sees Paramount distributing and advertising and marketing Legendary-produced films all over the world, excluding China.
Extra to come back…