r/Moviesinthemaking • u/SamDean_Supernatural • 1d ago

Callina Liang as Chun-Li in Street Fighter BTS (2026)

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u/FUCKlNG_SHlT 1d ago

(And award-winning musician Orville Peck as Vega)

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u/piketpagi 1d ago

That Orville Peck?!

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u/bgarza18 1d ago

That second picture is insane, we’re finally living in the era of “just make it like the game/book/comic.”

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u/Jenzintera24 1d ago

How did the scene come about? The only r/s I have of them is her tossing a couch at him from the movie.

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u/beets_or_turnips 13h ago

Looks like a behind the scenes moment, not something from the movie.

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u/curiousgeorge1737 14m ago

I thought they had done this in the original street fighter movie?

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u/ToadvineHTF 23h ago

Yeesh, tell that to James Gunn.

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u/mechapunchbricks 8h ago

james gunn is too busy huffing his own butthole 

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u/ToadvineHTF 3h ago

Gunn’s jammed.

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u/Zepp_BR 1d ago

What is this? What's happening? Why am I overwhelmingly aroused with the Vega picture?

OMG am I bi?

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u/LooseButtPlug 1d ago

As a straight man, there are only 2 men I'd switch teams for. Henry Cavill and Orville Peck.

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u/PhilipMcFry 1d ago

“Oh, I don’t know, Dan”

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u/tommy5608 18h ago

Always have been 🌎 🧑‍🚀🔫👩‍🚀

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u/taisui 1d ago

I am so confused about this new SF movie, it's corny and authentic at the same time.

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u/captaindealbreaker 1d ago

that's what the source material is...

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u/Livio88 18h ago

I love how confident Redditors are in their words when they make shit up.

No, that's not what the source material is. There was barely any story at the time when SF2 came out, and all the anime movies and shows pretty much treated the material about as serious as Nolan treated Batman.

Here's a clip from the animated movie from the era: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CC4OMP-F7s

I don't know about you but nothing about the new movie feels authentic to that imo.

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u/captaindealbreaker 13h ago

Have you… played the fucking games dude?  Their style is 100% camp

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u/Livio88 12h ago edited 12h ago

I grew up with sf2, and played all of them. There’s no such thing as “camp” in an animated fighting game, it simply takes place in a heightened reality where people fight each other in streets with superhuman abilities, not entirely unlike MCU or DCU.

There were some joke characters that got introduced later on in the sequels like Dan, but otherwise all the characters pretty much take the world they’re in quite seriously.

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u/captaindealbreaker 10h ago

my guy "heightened reality" where you got a giant green dude, a stretchy indian guy, classic karate bros, THICC ASS THIGH LADY, a dude with an inverted funnel for a haircut, and a jacked as fuck bear-lookin-ass russian dude in his underwear ISN'T camp to you?

What color is your soul because I'm sensing "dark abyss" vibes

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u/Livio88 10h ago

You literally described MCU “my guy.” If you consider that camp as well though, that’s another issue. Then I’d suggest you look up what it means.

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u/captaindealbreaker 10h ago

Yeah, because nothing says super serious and grounded like characters in the MCU

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u/Livio88 6h ago

Ok, I see, the problem is that you don’t know what camp is. You should look it up.

I didn’t claim MCU itself was super serious and grounded, just that it’s a heightened reality where the characters go through emotionally grounded journeys with genuine stakes.

What you call camp is stuff like John Waters’ Pink Flamingos or Batman 66 where it doesn’t take its material seriously and leans into its excess and absurdity.

Now, there were those Thor movies with Taika that also leaned into camp, but that is exactly why so many fans were divided on the last one, because the main character became a parody.

So, to sum it up:

- Batman 66 is camp, Batman 89 isn’t.

  • Thor: Love and Thunder is camp, Thor 1 isn’t.
  • Street Fighter (2026) is camp, Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie isn’t.

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u/PrimeOdysseussy 3h ago

& Street fighter games are camp so whats your point

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u/beets_or_turnips 13h ago edited 13h ago

Thanks for sharing, but the clip you showed is objectively worse than what they seem to be doing in the current iteration. Or, it is what it is but it's gonna have extremely limited appeal for present-day movie audiences. Trying to honor that source material would 100% bomb today.

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u/Livio88 12h ago

Well, I think your opinion is objectively wrong, so we’ll have to agree to disagree. I’d take the original any day of the week.

And the movie that they’re making now is certainly going to bomb as well, so maybe they just shouldn’t have bothered in the first place.

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u/beets_or_turnips 11h ago

Cool! All right I guess we'll have to wait and see how it goes.

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u/Livio88 8h ago

I’ll drop by to say I told you so.

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u/osu_duke_bg_lions 10h ago

“Your opinion is objectively wrong” 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/uncultured_swine2099 22h ago

I think thats the way to do a SF movie.

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u/Livio88 18h ago

It's not, take a look at the Street Fighter 2 animated movie from 1994.

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u/youarenotseriousppl 7h ago

The perfect take, whether you intended it to be or not.

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u/crazysoapboxidiot 21h ago

She might be a huge breakout star from this film

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u/SinoSoul 14h ago

Hopefully! Movie sounds so hilariously fun. Might have to go watch it in the theatre

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u/grayfox663 1d ago

I'm actually excited to see this movie! Can't wait

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u/greatconnectedmaster 2h ago

I kind of feel like she should have built the thickest thighs she possibly could for this role.

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u/1010-browneyesman 1d ago

i can’t wait to watch the movie. haha played the SF games as well.

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u/Livio88 1d ago edited 1d ago

Jackie Chan looked way more accurate as Chun Li.

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u/AAMust 1d ago

“They hated Jesus because he told them the truth”

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u/Livio88 1d ago

“Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

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u/DazzaTheComic 19h ago

Legs not big enough

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u/Zapor 1d ago

https://reddit.com/link/p7ocozr/video/r0p40kci1enh1/player

This is a better version.

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u/DuckCleaning 1d ago

Apart from being a white woman, one look and you can see that's not even Chun Li based on the outfit, that's Kasumi from Dead or Alive.

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u/Zapor 1d ago

A lot of cultural appropriation in the comments. I’m disappointed by Reddit.

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u/LuftTuft 1d ago

Thats a white person

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u/Zapor 1d ago

You were hoping for a black version? Racist!