{"id":876578,"date":"2026-09-01T20:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/876578\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T20:04:09","slug":"new-street-fighter-trailer-cant-keep-a-straight-face-for-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/876578\/","title":{"rendered":"New ‘Street Fighter’ Trailer Can’t Keep a Straight Face for Long"},"content":{"rendered":"

Paramount Pictures unveiled a new trailer for its upcoming Street Fighter movie today. Unlike the film\u2019s first full-length trailer<\/a>, which was appropriately goofy right from the start, this one tries to play it straight, delivering some more backstory as Chun-Li (Callina Liang) tries to convince Ryu (Andrew Koji) that Ken Masters (Noah Centineo) is in trouble and needs his help in a sketchy martial arts tournament. But this movie clearly still knows what it is<\/a> at heart, and the tone switches to a campier, more self-aware vibe about halfway through. Check out the new trailer below.<\/p>\n

Once the trailer starts showing off the World Warrior Tournament and all of its unrepentantly extra participants<\/a>\u2014looking at you, Guile (Cody Rhodes) and Vega (Orville Peck)\u2014there\u2019s just no way to keep pretending this is anything other than a goofy romp. At best, this movie will be a love letter to the Street Fighter games; at worst, it\u2019ll be poorly executed fan service. So far, we\u2019re leaning more optimistic, but, admittedly, self-aware silliness is a hard tone to maintain throughout an entire movie.<\/p>\n

If anyone can pull it off, though, it\u2019s director and co-screenwriter Kitao Sakurai, who spent more than a decade documenting and scripting Eric Andr\u00e9\u2019s gonzo hijinks on The Eric Andr\u00e9 Show. (We see a bit more of Andr\u00e9\u2019s delightfully unhinged ring announcer Don Sauvage in this trailer, too.)<\/p>\n

Street Fighter hits theaters on October 16.<\/p>\n

Want more io9 news? Check out when to expect the latest Marvel<\/a>, Star Wars<\/a>, and Star Trek<\/a> releases, what\u2019s next for the DC Universe on film and TV<\/a>, and everything you need to know about the future of Doctor Who<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paramount Pictures unveiled a new trailer for its upcoming Street Fighter movie today. Unlike the film\u2019s first full-length…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":876579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,344,84159],"class_list":["post-876578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-street-fighter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876578","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=876578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/876579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}