Oh no, the budget is $35 million. A common truism of Hollywood accounting is that movie doesn't break even unless it makes back double its budget, which in this case would mean a box office take of $70 million.
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Oh no, the budget is $35 million. A common truism of Hollywood accounting is that movie doesn't break even unless it makes back double its budget, which in this case would mean a box office take of $70 million.
With 35 is more realistic, and yeah much of that money is Van Damme and effects, still could pull something nice, as you say very tight knit one...so we goes with Cammy over Chun-li at the end?
Yep. Going with Jeri Ryan as Cammy. It's not a bad choice for a minor role It was tough, but Cammy tied into Bison better than Chun-Li, having been a former Bison lackey and all.
Street Fighter
Street Fighter
Written/Directed By: Steven E. de Souza
Produced By: Edward R. Pressman/Kenzo Tsujimoto
Based On: Street Fighter by Capcom
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme as William Guile
Raúl Juliá as M. Bison
Kenya Sawada as Ryu Hoshi
Carlos Gallardo as Ricardo Vega
William Zabka as Ken Masters
Evander Holyfield as Gerard Balrog
Paul Tocha as Victor Sagat
Jeri Ryan as Cammy White
Tony Jaa as Tony Adon
Benny "The Jet" Urquidez as the voice of Tony Adon
Release Date: December 23, 1994
Budget: $35 million
Box Office: $350 million
Written/Directed By: Steven E. de Souza
Produced By: Edward R. Pressman/Kenzo Tsujimoto
Based On: Street Fighter by Capcom
Cast
Jean-Claude Van Damme as William Guile
Raúl Juliá as M. Bison
Kenya Sawada as Ryu Hoshi
Carlos Gallardo as Ricardo Vega
William Zabka as Ken Masters
Evander Holyfield as Gerard Balrog
Paul Tocha as Victor Sagat
Jeri Ryan as Cammy White
Tony Jaa as Tony Adon
Benny "The Jet" Urquidez as the voice of Tony Adon
Release Date: December 23, 1994
Budget: $35 million
Box Office: $350 million
And we have the highlight of the 1994 holiday season, managing to only just lose the #5 spot on worldwide box office to The Flintstones (ironically, another movie de Souza wrote, alongside Mario writers Tom S. Parker and Jim Jennewein. Small world, huh?) Yes, Street Fighter does pretty well ITTL, proving that non-Nintendo properties can make blockbusters. The movie centers around the Shadaloo organization, led by the mysterious M. Bison, launching a tournament to crown the greatest Street Fighter, drawing forth the World Warriors.
He gets the Americans William Guile, Ken Masters, and Gerard Balrog, Japanese Ryu Hoshi, Spaniard Ricardo Vega, Thais Victor Sagat, and Tony Adon, and finally Englishwoman Cammy White. All enter for different reasons; the challenge, the glory, the money, revenge, bragging rights and to investigate the shady acts of Bison. The movie mainly builds around these fights, telling a story for most of them.
The first round sees Sagat utterly destroy his cocky student Adon (dubbed over by Benny Urquidez) in a battle fo Muay Thai fighters. The next round sees karate champions and friends, Ryu and Ken, fighting in a spar that starts friendly but gets intense toward the end, ending with an attempted leg sweep by Ken (You know why he tried this...) being met by Ryu landing a Hurricane Kick to his friend, advancing to the semi-finals. Following that was a fight between Vega and Cammy. Cammy, a soldier for the Allied Nations' special forces team Delta Red (and Ryan's somewhat dodgy English accent) comes close to winning, but ultimately get beaten thanks to Vega a hidden pair of claws, slashing her face. In the last quarterfinals match, Guile took on Balrog, meeting him punch for punch and managing to overcome the brute force of Balrog's blows and the blatant cheating, advancing to the quarterfinals.
In the semifinals, Sagat promises to pay Ryu back for the scar Ryu had given him in a previous fight, but Ryu beats Sagat again, advancing to the finals. The story also begins building up Bison as a threat by showing members of an Allied Nations troop brought in with Guile investigating the stadium the Street Fighter tournament and finding scientists studying the fighters, gathering data before they're taken out off-screen by Bison himself. In the next fight, Guile overcomes Vega, managing to stop his claws and even break them before smashing his mask, sending the vain Spaniard into a fury before knocking him out to advance to the finals.
The finals between Ryu and Guile end with Guile winning, but Bison steps up to congratulate him, picking up the fallen Ryu by the neck. He channels his Psycho Power on-screen for the first time, blasting Ryu in front of the crowd and the remaining fighters. Bison taunts Guile, reminding him of his friend Charlie and what happened in Cambodia. The riles Guile (heh) and the two have a showdown where Bison uses his Psycho Power to give himself an edge but Guile has the Hulk Hogan style comeback and landing a rare Triple Flash Kick to send him into his own giant monitor. The movie ends with Guile, Ken, and Cammy doing their individual victory poses for the freeze-frame.
The movie was well-received by audiences, though fans were mixed due to not having all the characters and didn't like Ryu being believed dead at the end. Critics, while not understanding the use of ki attacks, praised the story and choreography and even gave some nods to the well-done cinematography. While the movie did make Capcom a lot of money, they were highly displeased by Ryu's death, one of the few moves that had been slipped by them by de Souza (he had promised them that Bison would merely drop him.) Incensed, they refused to give sequel rights to Universal and went ahead with their own sequel, working in conjunction with Toho. The film, Street Fighter: The Legend of Ryu, retconned Ryu as having survived his the attack from Bison (who also survived the movie but wore new armor that concealed his face and voice provided by Takeshi Kusaka) and challenging Shadaloo forces to get to him, beating him at the end of the movie. The film was released in 1996 and would be followed by 1998's Street Fighter: The Rage of Akuma. Neither film would be released stateside for several years until Fox got the rights to the Street Fighter license, releasing both straight to DVD (Legend of Ryu in 2009 and Rage of Akuma in 2011)
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Street Fighter seems fun. Not perfect but I think the change from like Super hero action movie to more of a kung fu movie is a good one.
So, for suggestions on Samus's actress:
If we're going for after 2000, how about Cherlize Theron or Uma Thurman?
Before 2000, we could go with Bridgette Wilson.
If we're going for after 2000, how about Cherlize Theron or Uma Thurman?
Before 2000, we could go with Bridgette Wilson.
Metorid feels like something that would happen later on. I like Theron and Thurman.
Wilson is a good pick. I'd still like to see her as Sonya but that doesn't mean she couldn't still be Samus.
Wilson is a good pick. I'd still like to see her as Sonya but that doesn't mean she couldn't still be Samus.
It's why I said 2000. I can see Metroid being made in 96 at the earliest, 2000 at the latest.
I'm definitely wanting to wait on Metroid, mainly so CG can get good enough to bring Ridley over.
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You could go the Jurassic Park route and use a mix of CGI and animatronics.
I could see Adon's role in the movie meaning he comes back in the game's eariler. And i could also see other SF1 characters coming back.
No, I just feel like animatrinics wouldn't be able to do him justice. Maybe a blend like @HonestAbe1809 said.
Woah i wo
So the movie was a hit but capcom didnt liked it...the irony
Still that is good money for capcom
I think in terms of other Capcom series. A resident evil movie should still happen in the early 200s.
To me, the canonical Samus will always be the SUper Metroid one, the one that's 6'3", 198 pounds, and built like a brick wall. That physique is hard to find in female actors. Even someone like Gwendoline Christine would have to pack on quite a bit of extra muscle. For the 90s...Geena Davis, maybe?
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Still is hard to pull...this is 3D ridley
Kraid can be animatronics easily..but ridley...
so which movies are on the table for 1995?
Also, @Megafighter3 given that Disney and Nintendo are now becoming fairly close partners, how are things going at the house the mouse built? Was Frank Wells’ death butterflied? If so, his presence could keep the uneasy peace of Esiner and Katzenberg, which is important, because that would not only butterfly Dreamworks, but Katzenberg was the big pusher for the Nintendo deal, meaninghe now has a major feather in his cap. By the time the early oughts roll around, he might have Eisner’s job as CEO, or at least Wells role as President, either of which would have MASSIVELY BIG butterflies. Speaking of which, how are his plans to integrate Nintendo properties into the theme parks going?