Jason Momoa, Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo and Roman Reigns are in early talks to star in Avenue Fighter for Legendary Leisure, The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed.
Based mostly on the favored Avenue Fighter online game, the mission is a partnership with Capcom and has not but introduced its forged. However it’s understood Momoa, Koji, Centineo and Reigns are circling the variation in early negotiations.
Kitao Sakurai, finest identified for writing, directing and exec producing The Eric Andre Present, was earlier introduced to direct the variation. Capcom is deeply concerned with the mission, with Legendary co-developing and co-producing alongside the online game developer and writer.
One of many extra enduring preventing online game franchises of all time, the sequence started life with the 1987 arcade recreation Avenue Fighter, and set a excessive watermark for arcade preventing video games with Avenue Fighter II. The sport, launched in 1991, was the primary to supply a alternative of characters and preventing methods, revolutionizing one-on-one play. Avenue Fighter 6, the most recent recreation within the franchise, was launched in June 2023 and received the award for finest preventing recreation on the 2023 Sport Awards.
A earlier incarnation of the Avenue Fighter was set with Danny and Michael Philippou, the Australian twin filmmaker duo behind horror hit Discuss to Me. A characteristic adaptation named Avenue Fighter hit theaters in 1994 and starred Jean-Claude Van Damme as Guile, Raúl Juliá as M. Bison, and Ming-Na Wen as Chun-Li. In 2009, twentieth Century Fox launched Avenue Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li.
Hollywood has seen the worth in online game diversifications following the latest successes of The Tremendous Mario Bros. Film and the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise. Warner Bros. and Legendary’s A Minecraft Film hits theaters subsequent month.
Deadline was first to report on the forged talks for Avenue Fighter.