Villain Specialist David Dastmalchian Is Set to Play M. Bison in the Upcoming Live-Action Street Fighter Movie

David Dastmalchian is acceptable to play M. Bison successful the upcoming live-action Street Fighter movie.

Deadline reports that Dastmalchian, who played Thomas Schiff successful The Dark Knight, Kurt and Veb successful the Ant-Man franchise, Abra Kadabra successful the CW's The Flash, and Polka-Dot Man successful The Suicide Squad, has secured his biggest relation to date, playing Street Fighter’s seasoned dictator atrocious guy.

M. Bison was of people played by the precocious Raúl Juliá successful the infamous 1994 Street Fighter film, which besides starred Jean-Claude Van Damme arsenic Colonel Guile and Kylie Minogue arsenic Cammy.

Legendary declined to comment.

David Dastmalchian is acceptable to play M. Bison successful the upcoming live-action Street Fighter movie. Photo by Michael Buckner/Variety via Getty Images.

In Capcom's Street Fighter video games, M. Bison runs Shadaloo, the transgression enactment down astir of the atrocious things that hap successful the ongoing storyline. M. Bison himself is typically an ultra almighty last brag quality who wields Psycho Power to destruct immoderate who get successful his way. He was stone hard successful Street Fighter 2, though has calmed down a spot successful the years since.

The Street Fighter movie formed is starting to instrumentality shape, with galore of the cardinal roles present announced. Rapper Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, is acceptable to play boxer Balrog, Aquaman prima Jason Momoa is Blanka, Noah Centineo is Ken, WWE superstar Roman Reigns is Akuma, and Andrew Koji is Ryu. Callina Liang is Chun-Li. Guile is yet to beryllium formed (perhaps the hairsbreadth is proving to beryllium a sticking point). 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, truthful it's nary astonishment to spot Legendary instrumentality Street Fighter on. The anticipation is it outperforms the 1994 effort, which is considered by galore to beryllium among the worst video crippled films of each time.

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