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Chun Li
Though it is hard to say what film might have spurred this on, Capcom is hoping to get Chun Li and her street-fighting friends back to the bigscreen.
Capcom and Hyde Park to Adapt Street Fighter
According to Variety, Ashok Amritraj's Hyde Park Entertainment and Capcom Ltd. will join up to create a film version the popular videogame franchise Street Fighter.
Since it is mostly males that have played the game(s) and will find interest in the film, Capcom has already decided to have the lead character be the game's most popular female fighter, Chun Li. Yes, it is a greed by males every where, even in an animated state, the little lady is smokin' hot.
To see just how popular the leading lady is with men of all ages, all one must do is perform an image search of the character on Yahoo! and, if your image filter is set to 'off', you could get an Anime overload (NSFW).
A Street Fighter adaptation has been tried before in 1994 with Jean-Claude Van Damme playing Guile. Speaking of Van Damme, where has he been at recently? Somewhere kicking I suppose.
Though shadowed now by franchises such as Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter games have sold over 25 million console games and 500,000 arcade units, generating more than a billion dollars in revenue.
But who to play Chun Li? Though no thought process has yet to go into casting the character, might as well add Maggie Q to the list.
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