{"id":874872,"date":"2025-12-19T06:19:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/street-fighter-movie-loses-its-directors"},"modified":"2025-12-19T06:19:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T06:19:51","slug":"uh-oh-the-street-fighter-movie-has-lost-its-directors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/uh-oh-the-street-fighter-movie-has-lost-its-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Uh oh, the Street Fighter movie has lost its directors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/uh-oh-the-street-fighter-movie-has-lost-its-directors.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>\nOh dear, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/games\/street-fighter-6\">Street Fighter<\/a> movie has had to pause progress, as it has just lost its pair of directors.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBack in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/companies\/capcom\">Capcom<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/companies\/legendary-pictures\">Legendary Entertainment<\/a> announced that it was working together to make a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/a-new-street-fighter-movie-is-in-production\">live-action movie based on Street Fighter<\/a>. Soon after that, brother filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou were attached to direct the project, potentially a popular choice given their surprise 2022 indie horror hit Talk To Me, which they made with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/companies\/a24\">A24<\/a>. However, as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/street-fighter-movie-loses-talk-to-me-filmmakers-1235924842\/\">The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>, it appears both Philippou brothers have now left the project, leaving Legendary on the hunt for someone else to helm the film. According to THR, scheduling is partly to blame.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Philippous are working with A24 again on a film titled Bring Her Back, another horror film that is yet to have any plot details announced publicly. This one is set to star Sally Hawkins (Paddington) and Billy Barratt (Mr Selfridge), and shooting is set to start later this month in Australia. Legendary and Capcom were apparently hoping to shoot sooner than the Philippous were able to commit to, and it seems like their personal project must have taken priority for the pair of filmmakers.\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/street-fighter-movie-loses-its-directors\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/street-fighter-movie-loses-its-directors\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh dear, the Street Fighter movie has had to pause progress, as it has just lost its pair of directors. Back in April, Capcom and Legendary Entertainment announced that it was working together to make a live-action movie based on Street Fighter. Soon after that, brother filmmakers Danny and Michael Philippou were attached to direct the project, potentially a popular choice given their surprise 2022 indie horror hit Talk To Me, which they made with A24. However, as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, it appears both Philippou brothers have now left the project, leaving Legendary on the hunt for someone else to helm the film. According to THR, scheduling is partly to blame. The Philippous are working with A24 again on a film titled Bring&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/uh-oh-the-street-fighter-movie-has-lost-its-directors\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":874873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[132,209,222,9960,9372,8711,59,8775,44,45,8773,54,6936,4616],"class_list":["post-874872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vg24-7","tag-arcade","tag-capcom","tag-fighting","tag-filmtelevision","tag-legendary-pictures","tag-multiplayer-competitive","tag-pc","tag-pop-culture","tag-ps4","tag-ps5","tag-side-view","tag-single-player","tag-street-fighter-6","tag-xbox-series-x-s"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Uh oh, the Street Fighter movie has lost its directors | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Oh dear, the Street Fighter movie has had to pause progress, as it has just lost its pair of directors. 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