It Looks Like 50 Cent Will Play Balrog in the Street Fighter Movie

Rapper Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, has seemingly rubber-stamped a study that indicated helium is successful talks to play Balrog successful the upcoming Street Fighter movie.

Nexus Point News archetypal reported that Jackson was successful talks to play Balrog, and soon aft 50 Cent took to societal media to beforehand the story.

“No Days off, Let’s enactment each roads pb to Shreveport 💣Boom💨” 50 Cent posted.

Balrog is Street Fighter’s celebrated boxer quality (he was called M. Bison successful the archetypal Japanese version, but was switched successful the occidental mentation owed to concerns implicit similarities to Mike Tyson). Balrog was 1 of the 4 non-playable bosses successful Street Fighter 2 alongside Vega, Sagat, and M. Bison, but became playable with the merchandise of Street Fighter 2: Champion Edition. He’s been a mainstay successful Street Fighter ever since.

Things are surely ramping up for the Street Fighter movie. This week we learned that Legendary Pictures had gone for Callina Liang to represent Chun-Li. She’ll beryllium joined by different antecedently reported connected co-stars, including Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, Jason Momoa, Roman Reigns, and Orville Peck. Additional crippled details and accusation connected who precisely volition beryllium playing immoderate of the different Street Fighter icons person yet to beryllium announced. The movie itself is acceptable for motorboat connected March 20, 2026.

Hollywood’s pursuit of video crippled adaptations has seen tremendous success, with the likes of A Minecraft Movie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie bringing successful hundreds of millions of dollars astatine the container office. Legendary volition beryllium hoping this caller Street Fighter movie carves retired immoderate container bureau occurrence for itself aft 1994’s live-action Street Fighter movie starring Jean-Claude Van Damme arsenic Colonel Guile went down arsenic 1 of the worst video crippled adaptations ever made.

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