It’s official: The new Street Fighter movie has a firm 2026 release date and a somewhat surprising choice of time period. Director Kitao Sakurai’s Street Fighter will be set not in the current day, but in 1993 — the same year Capcom released Super Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers in arcades. (And a year before both Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie and the Jean-Claude Van Damme Street Fighter live-action film.)
Legendary Pictures and Capcom confirmed the release date for the live-action adaptation of Street Fighter on Thursday. It’s coming to theaters on Oct. 16, 2026, and will be filmed for IMAX. The studio also promised that Street Fighter “will honor the quarter-pumping, button-mashing spirit of the 90s classic while leveling up for a new generation of fans.”
Here’s the movie’s story synopsis (via a Legendary press release), which also confirms the primary cast of heroic World Warriors:
Set in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don’t, it’s GAME OVER!
Joining Koji, Centineo, and Liang in Street Fighter is an extensive and star-studded cast that includes:
- Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i as Akuma
- David Dastmalchian as M. Bison
- Cody Rhodes as Guile
- Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as Balrog
- Jason Momoa as Blanka
- Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim
- Mel Jarnson as Cammy
- Orville Peck as Vega
- Olivier Richters as Zangief
- Hirooki Goto as E. Hond
- Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki
- Eric André as Don Sauvage
- Rayna Vallandingham as Juli
- Alexander Volkanovski as Joe
- Kyle Mooney as Marvin
If you’re a Street Fighter fan and wondering who Don Sauvage, Joe, and Marvin are, they are, respectively, an announcer from Street Fighter 5, a kickboxer from the original Street Fighter arcade game, and… I don’t know. Who’s Marvin? Certainly not a playable Street Fighter character.
There’s also an interesting crossover connection in the Street Fighter cast: Mel Jarnson, who will play Cammy, previously starred in 2021’s Mortal Kombat movie, as Nitara, perhaps the closest thing we’ll get to a Street Fighter vs. Mortal Kombat. (Actually, we’ll get that in a box office battle, as both Mortal Kombat 2 and Street Fighter are hitting theaters in 2026, after a delay for the former.)
In addition to confirming the cast of Street Fighter, Legendary also released a bunch of actor-character profiles, lightly treated with a 16-bit look.
And finally, here’s Street Fighter 6 game director Takayuki Nakayama hanging out with Koji, Centineo, Liang, and Sakurai, courtesy of the newly launched Street Fighter movie Instagram account:
