A new live-action Street Fighter film stepped into the ring at The Game Awards with a first teaser that introduces Chun-Li, Ryu, Ken and a wide roster of fighters, while locking in an October 16, 2026 theatrical release. The trailer, shared online shortly after its premiere, cuts between quick bursts of hand-to-hand combat and close-ups of its ensemble cast, signaling a loud, stylized reboot for Capcom’s long-running fighting franchise.
According to the official synopsis circulated with the footage, the story is set in 1993 and follows estranged fighters Ryu and Ken, pulled back into contact when Chun-Li recruits them for a new World Warrior Tournament. Beneath the tournament’s spectacle lies a conspiracy that pits them against each other and forces them to confront unfinished business from their past.
Kitao Sakurai directs from a script by Dalan Musson, with Legendary and Capcom producing and Paramount releasing. The film stars Andrew Koji as Ryu, Noah Centineo as Ken, Callina Liang as Chun-Li and Jason Momoa as Blanka, alongside David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, Roman Reigns as Akuma, Cody Rhodes as Guile, Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson as Balrog, Orville Peck as Vega, Olivier Richters as Zangief, Eric André and Andrew Schulz, among others.
The teaser plays almost like a line-up, giving each fighter a single statement pose or move. One sequence recreates the arcade car-smashing bonus round, with a parked sedan battered to pieces, while another shows Rhodes’ Guile hitting Vega with a leaping kick that sends him through a wall during the Game Awards sneak peek. The edit leans on music, crowd noise and color-saturated lighting rather than dialogue, pushing the cast’s silhouettes and special moves to the foreground.
Reaction online has split between excitement at the faithful costumes and concerns over heavy digital imagery, with one commentator comparing the look of the trailer to AI-generated video and calling the film “insane” in scale. Behind that noise sits a project that has been years in motion: Legendary picked up film and TV rights to Street Fighter in 2023, lined up Danny and Michael Philippou to direct, then shifted to Sakurai after the pair left in 2024, with filming wrapping in Australia in late 2025. Street Fighter 2026 now arrives three decades after the 1994 Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle and seeks to give the series a fresh live-action start for a global audience.
