{"id":120359,"date":"2025-09-05T08:32:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120359\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T08:32:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:32:07","slug":"street-fighter-movie-adds-ufc-champion-to-eccentric-cast-comic-book-movies-and-superhero-movie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/120359\/","title":{"rendered":"Street Fighter Movie Adds UFC Champion to Eccentric Cast &#8211; Comic Book Movies and Superhero Movie News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The upcoming\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/tag\/street-fighter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Street Fighter<\/a>\u00a0movie cast is gaining yet another star to its eccentric group of fighters, with Legendary Entertainment announcing a new addition to the roster. <\/p>\n<p>Who has joined the Street Fighter movie cast? <\/p>\n<p>In a string of posts on social media, the official Street Fighter movie account officially announced the movie and its cast. While several familiar faces were listed, so was a brand-new one. <\/p>\n<p>Among the many listed actors was UFC champion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sherdog.com\/fighter\/Alexander-Volkanovski-101527\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alexander Volkanovski<\/a>, who is set to play the role of Joe. In the games, Joe is a kickboxing champion known for his signature style, and first appeared in the original Street Fighter as one of the game\u2019s opponents. <\/p>\n<p>Volkanovski joins a cast that features a wide-ranging and unique list of stars from across all different forms of entertainment. The cast of the upcoming Street Fighter movie features a star-studded group, including Andrew Koji as Ryu,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/movies\/606957-street-fighter-live-action-movie-cast-chun-li\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Callina Liang as Chun-Li<\/a>, Noah Centineo as Ken, Jason Momoa as Blanka, Roman Reigns as Akuma, Orville Peck as Vega,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/movies\/608191-street-fighter-cast-finds-its-dan-hibiki-live-action-movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Andrew Schulz as Dan Hibiki<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/movies\/607920-street-fighter-movie-adds-legendary-rapper-as-balrog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Curtis \u201c50 Cent\u201d Jackson as Balrog<\/a>, New Japan Pro-Wrestling star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/movies\/611660-street-fighter-movie-finds-its-live-action-e-honda\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Hirooki Goto<\/a>\u00a0as E. Honda, Indian action star\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.superherohype.com\/movies\/612154-street-fighter-movie-finds-its-live-action-dhalsim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vidyut Jammwal as Dhalsim<\/a>, Eric Andr\u00e9 as Don Sauvage, Olivier Richters as Zangief, David Dastmalchian as M. Bison, Mel Jarnson as Cammy, Rayna Vallandingham as Juli, and Kyle Mooney as Marvin. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSet in 1993, estranged Street Fighters Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) are thrown back into combat when the mysterious Chun-Li (Callina Liang) recruits them for the next World Warrior Tournament: a brutal clash of fists, fate, and fury,\u201d reads the film\u2019s official synopsis. \u201cBut behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past. And if they don\u2019t, it\u2019s GAME OVER!\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The Street Fighter movie is set to release on October 16, 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The upcoming\u00a0Street Fighter\u00a0movie cast is gaining yet another star to its eccentric group of fighters, with Legendary Entertainment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[34341,64,63,134,84802,6139,344,84159],"class_list":["post-120359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-legendary-entertainment","tag-movie-news","tag-movies","tag-street-fighter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}