Feb 19 2008'Street Fighter' Adds Duncan, Klein, Black Eyed Pea
After the worthless 1994 effort and every other awful video game movie to come out since, I didn't know it was possible to make me care less about a Street Fighter movie. Yet, somehow, they've found away: casting the incredible blandness of Chris Klein, Michael Clarke Duncan, and one of the Black Eyed Peas (also Rick Yune, whom I'm not familiar enough with to consider boring).
Kreuk, who plays Lana Lang in the CW's "Smallville," will star as martial artist Chun-Li. Duncan will play Balrog, while Klein is stepping into the role of Nash. Yune is taking on the mystical Gen.Rounding out the cast are Moon Bloodgood, Taboo from the Black Eyed Peas, Singapore's Edmund Chen and Hong Kong film star Cheng Pei Pei.
In a sense, it's genius casting. Dimensionless video game characters played by vaguely similar-looking dimensionless actors. And a Black Eyed Pea.
Kreuk, Duncan cruise 'Street' [Variety]
Reader Comments
1. TetterkeT - February 19, 2008 6:46 PM
Get retarded... get retarded... get retarded!!!
2. wendy - February 20, 2008 11:03 AM
What's sad is they don't even sound like they are using classic SF2 characters but more expanded characters most people wouldn't care to see.
Granted it's a street fighter movie so there isn't much point in caring either way.
3. Bruno - February 20, 2008 8:52 PM
Actually, your article says they added Rick Yune from the BEP, but that the cast alos already had Taboo from the BEP. So they have dimensionless actors... and TWO Black Eyes Peas...