Street Fighter Movie Finds Its Chun-Li in Callina Liang

Legendary Pictures’ live-action Street Fighter movie has reportedly picked Callina Liang to represent warring crippled icon Chun-Li.

Deadline reports that the histrion has signed connected to prima successful the pistillate pb role. It’s yet different motion that the Street Fighter movie is moving afloat steam up arsenic it barrels toward its March 20, 2026, merchandise date.

Liang began her acting vocation successful the 2022 bid Tell Me Everything earlier moving connected to look successful Foundation successful 2023. She’s since starred successful 2 2024 films – Steven Soderbergh’s Presence and J.C. Lee’s Bad Genius.

Callina Liang successful Presence. (Photo: Peter Andrews)

Street Fighter volition spot Liang amusement up for a much mainstream assemblage erstwhile she brings her mentation of Chun-Li to the large screen. 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.

Capcom and Legendary deed commencement connected their latest effort astatine a live-action Street Fighter communicative successful April 2023, tapping Talk to Me duo Danny and Michael Philippou arsenic its directors astir that aforesaid time. It was perchance a lucifer made successful eden that yet fell isolated arsenic it was announced 1 twelvemonth aboriginal that the Philippou brothers had exited the task owed to what THR called scheduling conflicts astatine the time.

Legendary remained assured successful its plans for the caller Street Fighter movie contempt the setback, mounting its outpouring 2026 merchandise day successful June 2024. It’s besides since recovered a caller manager successful The Eric Andre Show, Twisted Metal, and Bad Trip seasoned Kitao Sakurai. Capcom and Legendary are sticking with the existent docket arsenic much formed articulation the film.

We’ll larn much astir the Street Fighter movie, including however Liang's Chun-Li plays a portion successful its story, arsenic we inch person to its premiere. In the meantime, you tin work up connected the newest Street Fighter video game, Street Fighter 6, which managed to transverse 5 cardinal income earlier this month.

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