Our First Look at the Street Fighter Movie's Chun-Li and Ken Masters Comes From Joke Social Media Posts by Andrew Schulz

Stand-up comedian and histrion Andrew Schulz has fixed america a small taster of what to expect from Legendary's live-action Street Fighter movie with immoderate behind-the-scenes peeks astatine 2 of the film's large characters.

Schulz, who plays Dan Hibiki successful the 2026 movie, posted a fistful of limited-time posts to his Instagram account. Not lone bash we get to spot Callina Liang (almost — not definite the overgarment is authentic!) successful afloat costume arsenic Chun-Li, but besides Noah Centineo's Ken Masters.

The archetypal posts person disappeared from Schultz's feed, but thankfully the net ne'er forgets:

First Look
Noah Centineo #Ken
Callina Liang #ChunLi
Street Fighter Movie @Street_Fighter #StreetFighter#StreetFighterMovie https://t.co/f1K2uhf44U pic.twitter.com/FvifK2aC6t

— Mortal Kombat World (@Vitaly778513683) September 23, 2025

The posts amusement Ken sporting his iconic look from the Street Fighter games, implicit with agelong blonde hair. We don't get to spot Chun-Li successful afloat costume, but we tin archer her hairsbreadth volition look the part.

Here's the authoritative blurb connected the Street Fighter movie:

Set successful 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown backmost into combat erstwhile the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the adjacent World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury. But down this conflict royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to look disconnected against each different and the demons of their past. And if they don’t, it’s GAME OVER!

Legendary announced the afloat formed for its upcoming live-action Street Fighter movie earlier this period — which includes 50 Cent arsenic Balrog and WWE superstars Roman Reigns and Cody Rhodes arsenic Akuma and Guile respectively — and confirmed it'll beryllium released by Paramount Pictures a small aboriginal than planned connected October 16, 2026. Bad Trip’s Kitao Sakurai directs Street Fighter, which has begun shooting successful Australia and is filming successful IMAX.

See the afloat Street Fighter formed database below:

• Noah Centineo arsenic “Ken Masters”
• Andrew Koji arsenic “Ryu”
• Callina Liang arsenic “Chun-Li”
• Joe “Roman Reigns” Anoa’i arsenic “Akuma”
• David Dastmalchian arsenic “M. Bison”
• Cody Rhodes arsenic “Guile”
• Andrew Schulz arsenic “Dan Hibiki”
• Eric André arsenic “Don Sauvage”
• Vidyut Jammwal arsenic “Dhalsim”
• Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson arsenic “Balrog”
• Jason Momoa arsenic “Blanka”
• Orville Peck arsenic “Vega”
• Olivier Richters arsenic “Zangief”
• Hirooki Goto arsenic “E. Honda”
• Rayna Vallandingham arsenic “Juli”
• Alexander Volkanovski arsenic “Joe”
• Kyle Mooney arsenic “Marvin”
• Mel Jarnson arsenic “Cammy”

Legendary besides released side-by-side images of the actors other their crippled characters, which you tin spot by scrolling the slideshow below.

Last week, 50 Cent offered a archetypal look astatine Balrog via a grooming societal media post, implicit with chiseled hairstyle. Jason Momoa precocious hyped up his involvement, saying: “There’s nary 1 amended to play Blanka, truthful that’s wherefore I’m doing it. We’ll bash what the assemblage would similar to spot — practical, CG — we’re gonna bash our best. The formed is insane. My lad and I play it; it’s the lone crippled I played.” And Roman Reigns teased his relation arsenic Akuma with a abbreviated societal media video, below.

AKUMA! ☝🏽@Street_Fighter @Legendary pic.twitter.com/fwJfGq28Oa

— Roman Reigns (@WWERomanReigns) September 19, 2025

Hollywood’s emotion matter with video crippled adaptations shows truthful motion of slowing down fixed movies similar A Minecraft Movie and The Super Mario Bros. Movie person generated hundreds of millions of dollars astatine the container office. On this occasion, though, there's the added unit of ensuring it outperforms the 1994 original, which is considered by galore to beryllium among the worst video crippled films of each time.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.