The ‘Street Fighter’ Movie Just Took a Devastating Blow

Rob London is a writer at Collider who focuses on horror, science fiction, and obscure and classic movies. He has written for Marvel Comics.

This article covers a developing story. Continue to check back with us as we will be adding more information as it becomes available. Legendary and Capcom's first choice to develop the mega-popular fighting-game franchise Street Fighter into a new movie has just left the project, so they're on the lookout for Player 2. It's game over for Danny and Michael Philippou, the duo behind last year's sleeper scare hit Talk to Me, who have departed the film due to scheduling issues.

Capcom recruited the brotherly directorial duo last year to much fanfare, hoping that their third attempt at bringing the venerable fighting game to the big screen would be the charm. Speaking to Collider's Perri Nemiroff last year, the YouTubers-turned-filmmakers were enthusiastic about what they could bring to the property, with Danny noting his excitement to "have the freedom to create what that overall art could be if it was gonna be a bunch of films.

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