New Street Fighter trailer shows kicking the crap out of a car is still in style

Legendary Pictures' Capcom adaptation hits (and hits, and hits) theaters on October 16.

By Jarrod Jones  |  September 1, 2026 | 1:19pm
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New Street Fighter trailer shows kicking the crap out of a car is still in style

Legendary Pictures has just released a new trailer for Street Fighter, its colorful and boisterous adaptation of the Capcom fighting game series. In just under three minutes, it lays out the film’s plot with the precision of a well-swung kick to the face: Estranged brothers Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Centineo) are thrust back into each other’s lives as Ken becomes embroiled in the World Warrior Tournament, a brutal fighting championship owned by peaked-cap enthusiast/apparent sadist M. Bison (David Dastmalchian). Ryu isn’t initially convinced; it takes a muscled thigh to the dome from Chun-Li (Callina Liang) for him to appreciate her recruitment request.

Still, it doesn’t look like Ken’s having such a bad time, amping up his audience and kicking the crap out of a luxury sedan, as is customary in the better versions of Street Fighter over the course of the 39-year franchise. (The 1994 Street Fighter film starring Jean-Claude Van Damme and Raul Julia is fun in its own way but does not feature any barefoot kicking of automobiles.) This trailer’s a hoot, with much swirling camera work capturing exciting stunt fighting and silliness, up to and including blurry glimpses of Jason Momoa’s largely CG-d green meanie, Blanka. 

The film, directed by Kitao Sakurai of Bad Trip (explaining why Eric André is here), hadoukens into theaters on October 16.  

You can watch the trailer below.

 
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