Street Fighter Movie 2026: Full Cast, Character Guide, Trailer & Release Date
- Street Fighter opens 16 October 2026 in most markets, distributed by Paramount, from Legendary Pictures and Capcom. It runs 119 minutes and is classified as an action comedy.
- Eighteen named roles. Andrew Koji is Ryu, Noah Centineo is Ken Masters, Callina Liang is Chun-Li, Jason Momoa is Blanka, David Dastmalchian is M. Bison and Roman Reigns is Akuma.
- Seven of the eighteen performers are primarily screen actors. The rest come from wrestling, fighting sports, music and comedy — two WWE stars, a UFC champion, a New Japan wrestler, 50 Cent and Orville Peck among them.
- The director is Kitao Sakurai, who directed The Eric André Show. André is in the film, it is billed as an action comedy, and the trailer reception has been about how far it leans into camp. Those facts belong together.
- The second trailer launched on 1 September 2026 on the Shinjuku Yunika Vision screens in Tokyo, as the start of a ‘World Warrior Tour’, and went online the next day.
- It was shot in Australia between 18 August and 12 November 2025, and is the third live-action feature adaptation of the franchise.
Street Fighter opens on 16 October 2026, and the cast is the story. Eighteen named roles, and only seven of them are filled by people best known for acting.
The rest are two WWE stars, a UFC champion, a New Japan Pro-Wrestling veteran, a taekwondo champion, an Indian action star, a rapper, a country musician and three comedians.
The full cast and character guide
| Character | Performer | Best known for |
|---|---|---|
| Ryu | Andrew Koji | Acting |
| Ken Masters | Noah Centineo | Acting |
| Chun-Li | Callina Liang | Acting |
| M. Bison | David Dastmalchian | Acting |
| Blanka | Jason Momoa | Acting |
| Cammy | Mel Jarnson | Acting |
| Zangief | Olivier Richters | Bodybuilding, then acting |
| Akuma | Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i | WWE |
| Guile | Cody Rhodes | WWE |
| E. Honda | Hirooki Goto | New Japan Pro-Wrestling |
| Joe | Alexander Volkanovski | UFC |
| Juli | Rayna Vallandingham | Taekwondo, then acting |
| Dhalsim | Vidyut Jammwal | Indian action cinema and martial arts |
| Balrog | Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson | Music, and a long acting record |
| Vega | Orville Peck | Music |
| Dan Hibiki | Andrew Schulz | Stand-up comedy |
| Don Sauvage | Eric André | Comedy |
| Marvin | Kyle Mooney | Comedy |
A note on that last row. Kyle Mooney as Marvin appears on one of the two cast lists used here and not the other. It is included because one credible source has it, and flagged because the other does not.
And on the “best known for” column: it is a judgement, not a credential check. Several of these people are genuinely both — Vidyut Jammwal is an established actor and a martial artist, 50 Cent has been acting and producing for two decades. The column exists to make one pattern visible, not to grade anyone.
Who is playing the characters you actually care about
Ryu — Andrew Koji. Koji is the most conventional piece of casting on the board and the one with the most relevant screen history in martial-arts action.
Ken — Noah Centineo. The trailer’s costume work has drawn attention for how literal it is; Ken’s red gi is straight off the sprite.
Chun-Li — Callina Liang.
Blanka — Jason Momoa. The single most-discussed casting decision, and the one that tells you what register the film is playing in.
M. Bison — David Dastmalchian. A character actor with a long run of villains, cast as the franchise’s definitive villain.
Akuma — Roman Reigns. Akuma is the secret-boss figure of the series, which is a canny use of a wrestler whose entire persona is built on the late, overwhelming arrival.
Guile — Cody Rhodes. The flat-top is present and correct in the trailer.
Two roles that are not from the games
Eric André plays Don Sauvage and Kyle Mooney plays Marvin. Neither is a fighter from the games.
Alexander Volkanovski’s Joe is a more ambiguous case: a “Joe” exists in early franchise material, so this page does not state that the role is original.
The trailer, and why it looks like that
The second trailer launched on 1 September 2026 — not online first, but on the Shinjuku Yunika Vision screens in Tokyo, billed as the opening of a “World Warrior Tour”. It went online the following day. The first trailer had arrived on 16 April.
The reception has centred on how faithful the costumes are to the original sprites, and on how far the whole thing leans into camp.
That is not an accident, and the production credits explain it. The director is Kitao Sakurai, who directed The Eric André Show. Eric André is in the cast. The film is classified as an action comedy. Four facts, one direction.
Previous live-action Street Fighter films have failed in two opposite ways — the 1994 film by being too silly to take seriously, the 2009 one by being too serious to be fun. This is the third attempt, and it appears to have picked a side on purpose.
When does the Street Fighter movie come out?
16 October 2026 in most markets, from Paramount Pictures, in IMAX.
A handful of countries get it a day or two earlier: Argentina, Australia, France, Hungary and Singapore are listed for 14–15 October.
How long is the Street Fighter movie?
119 minutes — just under two hours.
Who is directing the Street Fighter movie?
Kitao Sakurai, who co-wrote the screenplay with T. J. Fixman, from a story by Dalan Musson and Gary Dauberman.
Sakurai’s best-known previous work is The Eric André Show, which is the most useful single fact for setting expectations. This is a Street Fighter film made by someone whose reputation is in chaotic comedy, and the trailers reflect that.
Where was the Street Fighter movie filmed?
Australia, with principal photography running from 18 August to 12 November 2025.
Is this a reboot of the 1994 movie?
It is a new adaptation rather than a continuation — the third live-action feature the franchise has had.
The 1994 film with Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raúl Juliá and the 2009 Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li are separate attempts. This one shares no continuity with either.
The bottom line
A Street Fighter film directed by the man behind The Eric André Show, starring two WWE champions, a UFC champion, 50 Cent, Orville Peck and Jason Momoa as Blanka, opening 16 October.
Whether that works is a question nobody can answer until October. What can be said now is that the casting is not accidental and the register is not ambiguous. Everyone involved appears to know exactly which of the two previous failures they are trying to avoid.