2026 Street Fighter movie trailer packed with Easter eggs

Coming soon to Capcom and Legends street fighter Movie It’s likely to be as controversial as the original Jean-Claude Van Damme-led attempt to bring the fighting game series to the big screen. Director Kitao SakuraiThe adaptation of “Street Fighter” takes a bold, stylized, and professional-wrestler approach. The Eric Andre Show Levels of manic energy.

Sakurai also paid a lot of attention to features in the film. street fighter gameaccurately recreates iconic moves such as Ken and Ryu’s Wave Fist and Tornado Angle, Zangief’s Russian Suplex, and Chun-Li’s Spinning Bird Kick. Sakurai doesn’t seem to be taking the tone too seriously, which means it looks like it’ll be a good time at the cinema.

street fighterFirst full trailer It shows that Sakurai is trying to pack as many Easter eggs and deep looks into the movie as possible. While Capcom and Legendary are clearly meant to appeal to a broad audience, like any good video game movie adaptation, street fighter Still need to cater to fans.

Here are some of the more interesting and reassuring pieces we (and fans) have found in Street Fighter games, movies, and ephemera. street fighter trailer.

The classic battle between Chun-Li and Vega

Vega gets kicked left and right in trailer street fighterboth created by Chun Li (played by Jiali Liang) and Gu Le (played by Cody Rhodes). Vega (Orville Peck) is an archetypal villain who wears a mask to maintain his beauty, and was memorably depicted in the 1994 anime as an assassin sent to kill Chun-Li. Street Fighter 2: The Animated Movie.

Some fans interpreted this photo of Chun-Li as a direct reference to an infamous scene from The Movie. animated moviesin which she takes a shower naked while Vega looks on. Chun-Li and Vega get into an argument after gratuitous shower scene, leading to Fan-favorite and well-choreographed combat It’s filled with horrific shots of Chun-Li’s…underwear.

In fact, what Chun-Li is doing in the above scene may be related to street fighter. Later in the trailer, we see Ryu (Andrew Koji) and E. Honda (Hiroki Goto) fighting in a sauna, with towels strategically covering their nether regions. Maybe we’ll see some similarly hot action from Chun-Li there, too.

Balrog’s Boxing Gloves

Any Street Fighter fan worth E. Honda’s dohyō salt knows that when Capcom brought Street Fighter 2 From Japan to the West, the company rearranged the names of three big bad guys: Balrog, M. Bison, and Vega. Capcom wisely decided to change the character’s name it seems exactly Like Mike Tyson, rename M. Bison Balrog.

But in the trailer, we noticed that the Balrog (played by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson) was wearing Buffalo-branded gloves. The buffalo is part of the genus Aurochs, so this is a good choice for those who want to share classic video game trivia with friends after the movie. (Yes, after the movie. Save your conversation for later!)

Street Fighter(1994) Retro

In one shot from the trailer, we see young Ryu and Ken (Noah Centineo) bonding at the first World Warrior Championship in 1987 before a rift between them led to their separation. Ken and Ryu’s outfits in that photo are a direct reference to…

…the costumes worn by Ryu (Byron Mann) and Ken (Damian Chapa) in the original opening scene street fighter 1994 movie.

Oh my car!

The wound isn’t exactly deep, but we do see Ken use his fists and feet to fall out of a sedan in one scene in the movie. street fighter. Fans will recognize this as one of the bonus stages introduced in the game Street Fighter 2players can let off steam in an unattended car.

Additionally, almost every shot in the Street Fighter trailer is filled with spectators, some of whom are performing brief looping moves that make them look like crudely animated background characters from the Street Fighter games. This is a nice touch.

Hey, this is El Fuerte!

Although many world warriors appear in street fighter From the first two Street Fighter games, Street Fighter 4Mexican wrestler El Fuerte makes a brief appearance. He was seen getting kicked to the mat by Ken, so don’t expect El Fuerte to have a strong presence in the film.

What’s going on with Capcom’s “What’s Up?”

The Street Fighter trailer’s soundtrack is packed with references, including punching and laughing sound effects lifted directly from Street Fighter. Street Fighter 2. It also begins with an unreleased version of 2Pac’s “Ambitionz Az a Ridah,” which was “written for Mike Tyson in the 1990s,” according to Paramount Pictures promotion. The trailer also includes a version of 4 Non Blondes’ “What’s Up?” In a strange coincidence, the same song also appears in another Capcom live-action reboot trailer. Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City.

What’s going on?

street fighter It hits theaters on October 16th.