The directors of the Street Fighter movie have been revealed. According to The Hollywood Reporterthe upcoming video game adaptation will be helmed by Michael and Danny Philippou, the duo behind one of this year’s best horror movies: Talk to me. While the directors of a horror movie might not seem like the obvious choice, the two might just be the perfect combination to make a Street Fighter movie great.
The two filmmakers, twin brothers from Australia, ran a successful YouTube channel called RackaRacka where they uploaded short comedy and horror films. One of them, Michael, even has a bit of real fight experience, as he competed as an undercard at the Logan Paul vs KSI pay-per-view event.
Most importantly, though, it’s the Philippou brothers’ upcoming movie Talk to me that’s the best argument for their Street Fighter movie. The film, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year and will hit theaters July 28, is a kinetically shot and thrilling horror movie with bursts of very intense, extremely cool action. The entire movie, which follows a group of teenagers who use an embalmed hand that allows ghosts to briefly possess their bodies like a party drug, is also highly stylized in a way that fits right in with the Street Fighter ethos.
It’s not yet known when Street Fighter will be released, what the story will be or what characters will appear in it, but now that the directing team appears to have been selected, it’s only a matter of time before studio Legendary Pictures announces a little more about the adaptation.