Quantum Recast: Your Favorite Films, Recast In Different Years
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Quantum Recast: Your Favorite Films, Recast In Different Years
Street Fighter - 2026: Should Video Game Movies Continue?
Two hosts. One cursed genre. We’re back from hiatus and diving headfirst into Street Fighter—the messy past, the chaotic present, and the narrow path where a live-action adaptation might actually work.
We start with Raúl Juliá’s legendary M. Bison, a masterclass in villainy that shows how one serious performance can anchor an otherwise bonkers movie. From there we map the game-to-film curse: cramming 200 hours of world and choice into 120 minutes, inventing bland protagonists, killing fan favorites you’ll need next time, and mistaking “gritty” for “good.”
So what would it take to make Street Fighter land in 2026? We make the case for a bold, colorful tone that looks like the game you remember, a tournament that actually feels like a tournament (with an audience and rules), and a clean narrative spine built around Ryu and Ken’s estrangement colliding with Chun-Li and Guile’s revenge lines. We argue for Bison as a manipulative, modern dictator rather than a gym poster, and for Akuma as a shadowy pressure system instead of a homework dump. Along the way we debate the new cast, where stunt casting helps or hurts, and why choreography and silhouette should outrank marquee names. Sonic and Mario thrived when they embraced cartoon logic; Speed Racer was early but right. It’s time to let video game movies be gloriously unreal—and ruthlessly coherent.
If you care about tournaments that make sense, fights you can actually read, and characters who don’t vanish in service of cameos, this conversation’s for you. Tap play, tell us your dream Ryu/Ken/Chun-Li, and share the episode with the friend who still quotes “it was Tuesday.” And if you’re new here, hit follow, drop a review, and stick around—we’ve got more heavy hitters on deck.
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Hosts:
Cory Williams (@thelionfire)
Nick Growall (@nickgrowall)
Co-Hosts (Season 6):
Aly Dale (@alydale55)
Ash Hurry (@filmexplorationah)
Cass Elliott (@take5cass)
Terran Sherwood (@terransherwood)
Voice of the Time Machine:
Kristi Rothrock (@letzshake)
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Nick Growall
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Welcome back. Not dead. Yeah. We took a hiatus.
SPEAKER_03:A small long summer vacation. Yeah. We'll call it. Extended, stay a little bit longer, you know. We had we had the the PTO for it, so we decided why not?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah. Luckily we hand out our own PTO. Um, but you know what that means? When we're gone for a long period of time, we tend to come back and do a heavy hitter.
SPEAKER_03:That's true.
SPEAKER_01:Titanic the last time we took a break. So we're bringing you Street Fighter.
SPEAKER_03:Of course. Street Fighter. It was on everyone's mind. They said, Man, I really hope that they have something to say about this.
SPEAKER_01:I know I don't, I mean, we're not even necessarily like trying to dive into the 1994 Street Fighter movie. We're just kind of diving into Street Fighter as a movie now.
SPEAKER_03:The new one.
SPEAKER_01:Because they're making a new one.
SPEAKER_03:Coming out next year.
SPEAKER_01:And I told you that I wanted to talk about it because they've released the cast list that seems like a joke, and then they were like, no, this is not a joke. This is what we're doing.
SPEAKER_03:If you needed a definition for stunt casting, do you just need to look at the cast list for this movie?
SPEAKER_01:Like 100%. Like, it's kind of weird because now if you're a millennial like us, you watch the original 94 Street Fighter, which is kind of like watching a Muppet movie and Raoul Julia's the human.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Okay. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:And everyone else around him is just Muppets, but they're actually people. But it's it's Jean-Claude Van Damme playing an American makes no attempt to get rid of that.
SPEAKER_03:No the accent at all. Acting wasn't his strong suit. No. Roundhouse kicks were his strong suit, Corey.
SPEAKER_01:It was the early 90s. You didn't need a lot of acting credentials. You just needed, you know.
SPEAKER_03:What point did we as a society say, you know what, I prefer my movies to have proper accents? Because we went a long time.
SPEAKER_01:I don't really know. I mean, we're not even fully there. We still live in the world of like epics have to just everyone has a British accent for some reason.
SPEAKER_03:Unless you're Christopher Nolan and you just got no learn a dead language.
SPEAKER_01:You're all gonna learn this dead language.
SPEAKER_03:I was just gonna say you have John Berthenol and clearly still in his American accent, just be like, listen to it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, Christopher Nolan doesn't care. He's just like, whatever, it's a movie. That's the thing. You just don't take him seriously. And I'm kind of degrading the 94 Street Fighter like it should have been taken seriously and it absolutely should not have. Oh no. I just appreciate that rule Raul Julia took it dead serious.
SPEAKER_03:He did.
SPEAKER_01:He did dead serious.
SPEAKER_03:But he had a good reason.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, he was dying and he knew he was dying. And he was doing it for the kids. Made a movie for his kids to watch because a lot of his movies you couldn't watch if you were kids.
SPEAKER_03:It's heartbreaking to think about.
SPEAKER_01:Um yeah, he's clearly gaunt in that movie, but he holds that movie together.
SPEAKER_03:He really surprisingly does. Like a quick quick trivia about the old Street Fighter is that because of his condition, like he was having to like rest up from his uh procedure to remove the the cancer, stomach cancer, I believe, is what it was. And so while they're waiting for him to rest, they flipped the scheduling of the movie. Because normally they're like, we'll shoot the actual talking bits first so that the actress have time to train for the stunts. And they said, No, let's just rush the stunts and shoot that first.
SPEAKER_01:You know, him flying around, all that stuff, yeah, in his light-up shoes. I don't I still think, despite the fact that that is a pretty awful movie, it's a terrible movie. It's pretty bad. And not even necessarily because it's Street Fighter, not because of Van Dam. It's just because, and we'll get into this in a little bit, but live-action video games just or video game movies just tend to suck.
SPEAKER_03:They have.
SPEAKER_01:They tend to suck.
SPEAKER_03:We're coming around cooler. Kind of things are changing.
SPEAKER_01:I I st I slowly. I respectfully disagree. I still think they suck. Um I mean, first of all, we'll we'll get to that when we're talking about. My point with Raoul Julia is I still think the for me it was Tuesday line is one of the coldest lines in any movie.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It's wild that it's in Street Fighter.
SPEAKER_03:It's the perfect like encapsulation of that kind of trope of like the person's father was murdered, and they've spent their whole life trying to get back at them, and they're just like, dude, I'm You're nothing to me.
SPEAKER_01:John Lee, I showed my wife this. We were having a conversation about villains, and I said, Hold on, watch this scene. This is how you do a lot with very little.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Because I'm I'm really into what like I kind of call cinematic quiet, which is just like huge moments shown very little. It's like Bane punching the pillar the second time at the end of Dark Knight Rises. It's the first time you see him crack in the whole movie and get emotional is he punches past Batman, misses, and Tom Hardy chooses to do a second punch out of frustration. And the first time I ever noticed it, I was like, that's the most brilliant thing I've ever seen in my life. Because this is the first time we've seen Bane crack this whole movie. That's true. He's now losing, he's lost it. And so, uh, but I've shown it's Chun Lee saying, I've spent my entire adult life hunting you down because you stormed my village and murdered my father, and I hate you, and I and like I've dedicated my life, and he's literally like, I don't even know who you are. For you, that was the most important day of your life, and to me, it was Tuesday, and I'm like, It's sinister.
SPEAKER_00:It's so cold and oh, Julia delivers it so well.
SPEAKER_03:Avengers Endgame did a version of it too with Scarlet Witch where she's like, You took everything, he's like, I don't even know your name, basically. But but that but the way Julia delivers it is just way more lethal.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, it it's so bad. And oh, I love that line. That's the best the whole movie's worth watching for that. Just for that. Because it really works in the context of the whole movie, but you can't just YouTube that one scene. It's also the scene's well done because Raul Julia is just eating up the scenery, walking around this lair that tells its own story of a megalomaniac.
SPEAKER_03:Apparently, when they were making I know this isn't a Street Fighter 94 movie, but I'm gonna throw more knowledge at you. Apparently, when they were pitching to Capcom like all the studios, they kept rejecting all the just do a tournament. Everybody's like, we'll just do a tournament, and then like we'll get all the characters in. Because that was their cavit, was like, we want all of our characters in it from the from Street Super Street Fighter, but they didn't want to do a tournament. And I'm like, why is this so hard? Corey, you know how many times I've complained about Mortal Kombat and all the times they've just failed to just I'm like, it's a fighting movie, just let them fight. It's literally the guy from Godzilla, let them fight.
SPEAKER_01:Do you want to dive into this conversation of video game live action movies tend to sucking? Sure. Like we can we can dive into it right now, but we dive into that they're making a Street Fighter for next year. Yeah. Um, and that it's a wild casting. Um, because we are a casting podcast. We'll dive into that. But let's start with the fact that like I will allow you to try to tell me some good examples of live-action video game movies that are good. You're Googling it, you don't even have to get squats down.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know what you're talking about. You got nothing.
SPEAKER_01:And I'm not saying you can't like it. We all sort of kind of like the super Super Mario Brothers movie from the 90s, but only because it is what it is. It's a train wreck.
SPEAKER_03:It's an absolute train wreck.
SPEAKER_01:It's like absolute drug-induced train wreck.
SPEAKER_03:Listen, I stand by the idea. No, it's a bad movie. Let me just start off with that. It's a bad movie. It's bad.
SPEAKER_01:It's terrible.
SPEAKER_03:But there is the like smallest grain of a good idea in there. It's like if they had said, I think the thing is if they had leaned in and said, let's make Mario a dark fantasy, like a dark sci-fi fantasy, there's a cool idea there. It's not the one you do right off the bat. It's the one you do 10 years later or 20 years later when you need a reboot and you need to like grow grow it up for your audience.
SPEAKER_01:Well, okay, here's the thing. I call it it's something I've come up with in the last few years. We all experienced this wonderful thing during COVID called the Tiger King. And I've decided there's this thing in movies called the Tiger King paradox. And it's essentially what we're gonna call a bad movie that we can watch.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Because Tiger King's not a good documentary. It's just you're watching the craziest thing in the world.
SPEAKER_03:It's really what's wrong with it.
SPEAKER_01:It's it's we're just watching this guy existed in the middle of Oklahoma, and we live down the road, Nick, and we had no idea.
SPEAKER_03:I live 20 minutes away from him.
SPEAKER_01:We had no idea any of this was going on. We knew he existed. We saw the billboard, but we didn't know any of this other stuff was happening. It's a whole thing at all. And so it's just we watch Super Mario Brothers because it's like watch like wow, this this exists. That's what it is. It's the huh, that's real. That exists.
SPEAKER_03:That happened.
SPEAKER_01:And that's what you think when you think of Joe Exotic, you're like, wow, that's a real guy. That guy existed.
SPEAKER_03:That man is alive.
SPEAKER_01:That's not fiction. It's not. Someone didn't make him upright him. He is that's a dude.
SPEAKER_03:So I'll say this about pretty much every video game movie is that there's not one where you go, that's like an amazing movie. I will say they are enjoyable movies to begin with. Like, if you go to Rotten Tomatoes and their percentages, like Sonic 3 is the really the best one. Partly animated. Partly animated. Because I think that's the thing, is like they finally except at the beginning they were like trying to throw they didn't know what to do with video games. And they finally said, like, oh, because like the Sonic thing's a perfect example of it. Like, still didn't learn the lesson until the internet bullied them into learning it. Yeah. Which was like, no, we're gonna make it real. And you're like, just make it's you're literally catering to millennials that are grown up now and trying to show their kids their favorite cartoon character. Yeah, so just make him look like the cartoon character. Everyone it I was watching a video about uh deep fakes and CGI and replacing people and stuff that we're running into now, like de-aging actors and stuff. The problem is that with like so Akira, that the the battle angel movie where they had the girl with the big bug eyes in it as Robert Rodriguez. Well, listen, don't hate on me for this. I'm trying to make a point here. Is that they it made her look more exaggerated because like the audience would accept it more.
SPEAKER_01:They kind of like animated her.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, they animate her. Right. It's like it's like Gollum in Lord of the Rings. Like the sec you don't question it because the world's already been established and they're established, and we know it's fantastical.
SPEAKER_01:So when you tell me that Dragon Ball Z evolution would have been better if they gave them big eyes.
SPEAKER_03:Maybe. I don't know if you could that's a small step forward with in a mile of steps they need to take.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know that thing about Dragon Ball Z or that movie. I just know I've seen pictures of that movie. I'm like, this can't be this thing.
SPEAKER_03:I I've never watched it. And that's a lot for it looks unwatchable. Yeah, it looks I watched 10 seconds of it and went, nope, nope, nope, change the channel. But they made Sonic cartoonish and you believe it because it's like, yeah, he's just a cartoon. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And it's just like every other it'd be like if they made a Bugs Bunny movie but wanted him to look like a real rabbit.
SPEAKER_03:It's weird. It's a real giant rabbit. No, it's not. It's like I don't we're we're we've exited what it is, Corey. The long story short is that we've exited this era of gritty realism where it's like, oh, we want the realistic this, the realistic that, and audiences finally went, no, we just want the cartoon. Yeah. Like that's why the new Mario Brothers movie worked. It was like was it new? Did it deliver anything interesting? No, but it was Mario as like audiences remembered him. And that's why, like, the old ones they should have reversed. They should have been it should have been an animated movie years ago, and we should have got like the gritty wild fantasy reboot, like maybe ten or f five years ago.
SPEAKER_01:I think sometimes it's just there's conversations that don't happen that are like, again, so I mean, we love the movie, but we have to blame the Dark Knight for a lot of this. It changed cinema for a while, where everything had to be grounded and gritty, right?
SPEAKER_03:You have Bond and Batman too.
SPEAKER_01:Bond and Batman did the same thing at the same time, kind of like, hey, we're gonna really ground this, make it kind of gritty more realistic. And but my thing is this when someone come brings you Sonic in a in a meeting room, in a pitch room, and they say, but we want him to look like kind of like a real blue hedgehog, you go, No, this is not Batman. This is a Sega Genesis game that barely has a plot. We're going to just make him look like Sonic.
SPEAKER_03:I think the problem is you don't have enough people that are self-aware enough or actually interact with people outside of like rich Hollywood elitists.
SPEAKER_01:Chances are the Sonic thing was more of a like an art department, we want to put our own stank on this character than a let's make it gritty. But I get what you're saying. Because I actually watched in the last like few months, or probably the last month, I mean, I've watched the new Superman twice.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:I watched the new Fantastic Four, loved both of them.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Thought they were great. They're great. And one of the reasons I came out of both of them was like, these kind of look like comic book movies.
SPEAKER_03:We are escaping realism.
SPEAKER_01:I kinda like it. Yes. I'm kinda like, it's a little easier to accept the stretchy man in a world that looks like this.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, in a retro 1960s. Yeah, you know? Yes.
SPEAKER_01:And so, and then the new Superman was very just like, this feels like an old Superman comic. Superman's just this really lovable guy. He's not dealing with a lot of trauma.
SPEAKER_03:He's just like, I'm trying to be like, doing it because it's the right thing to do, guys. Like, it's not hard.
SPEAKER_01:And uh, and then but I also watched Thunderbolt, hated it. Hated it. It's just so gross and gritty, and I couldn't tell if it's like, and don't get me wrong, I liked parts of it, but at the same time, I'm kind of like, first of all, I'm sick of Marvel dropping the ball with Sebastian Stan. Just let him run the show. He's charomatic, he's good looking, and his character's fun.
SPEAKER_03:You could just sit there and do he's aura farming the entire time.
SPEAKER_01:He is. He's literally just it's like they threw the adult in the room with the kids. They're like, he was in the real Avengers.
SPEAKER_03:He has super he actually has the Super Soldier serum.
SPEAKER_01:Dude, he was in like endgame. The rest of you losers were in Disney Plus shows.
SPEAKER_03:So He shows up and go, let me show you how this is done.
SPEAKER_01:They didn't give him anything, and I'm just like, he's just kind of there a lot. And they really fell on Florence Pugh, which you love her. I'm like still mixed on Florence Pugh. I'm like, she's good in certain stuff, and other stuff I'm just my thing is they banked that movie on a character from the lowest performing Marvel movie, Black Widow.
SPEAKER_03:They banked on a lot of characters from a lot of low-hanging fruit.
SPEAKER_01:It's like Florence Pew and the guy from Stranger Things, they were in the sucky movie. They were in the really, really sucky movie no one watched.
SPEAKER_03:That's a good point. But I still think it's a good movie.
SPEAKER_01:It's uh I mean, like, kind of. It's kind of a good movie.
SPEAKER_03:It's a bad idea to try to say, hey, let's take our D-list character. They tried to Guardians it.
SPEAKER_01:They did. They let James Gunn walk out the door and said, we can do this, guys.
SPEAKER_03:We can do it, guys. Because but here's the thing about the new movie, like the two new Marvel movies and the Superman movie is that there isn't as much of the streamlined look to it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Thunderbolts had the darker, it had it had contrast, Corey. There was actual like black coloring in there, like shadows.
SPEAKER_01:That doesn't really impact a really gray world. It's a gray world that turns black.
SPEAKER_03:But then Fantastic Four is nice and shiny, Superman's nice and colorful. We're we're the problem is we're getting into it's the shape of the world, Corey. World's in dark times, and so movies become brighter and more colorful.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. But but here's my thing. Okay, just to just to end my Thunderbolts thing, Nick, it's just like I liked parts of the movie and I told my wife after like because she fell asleep during it. Next day she's like, How was it? And I was like, I was like, it's good at times. I I was I I went on my Bucky rant, my Sebastian Stan rant, but then I was like, I was like, we didn't give him the shield, Brave New World sucked, Aaron Mackey can't carry this, or Anthony Mackey cannot carry this. Sebastian Stan could have carried this, and then now he's just playing babysitter to these guys. Wyatt Russell's not getting enough, he's great. So I'm just like, huh. And uh, but then I was like, but there's a really great story about addiction in it.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And I'm like, but that feels really out of place in the movie. In a Marvel movie. In a Marvel movie. Well, the whole movie's really actually dark and about depression and really about depression and mental illness and addiction. And I was like, this I was like, this movie went to some really extreme places.
SPEAKER_00:It did.
SPEAKER_01:And I would have preferred it just not been a Marvel movie. Because I I was like, it told a cool story. It did, but maybe take the superheroes out of it, make like a s like a the cell type of movie that's just exploring shame. Sure, sure, but sure. So it was good, but also what I'm saying is aesthetically, compared to the other two movies, I like the other two movies because I like that we're going back to kind of a colorful kind of comic booky world with these.
SPEAKER_03:I did recently watch Speed Racer. Okay, yeah, that's a colorful movie. Other colorful movie, way ahead of its time, but shows your point of that, yes, people kind of want to see that. It was ten years ago, whenever it came out, 15, like people weren't ready for that.
SPEAKER_01:It came out in the shadow of Dark Knight and right before Dark Knight rises. So we were in the gritty world.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, where they were like the Wazoshkis were just a little too ahead of themselves. Yes. But I I think that's the point. I think that we're entering a point where the exaggerated, the comic book, the colorful is now coming back, and we're comic book movies are now allowed to be comic book movies. Sadly, we're at superhero fatigue, so will making them comic book movies help? Or will we be leaning in now to like speed race, or are we entering like okay, anime, let's let's take over kind of thing? The more out outlier type stuff.
SPEAKER_01:I think to end the con like the superhero conversation in the Street Fighter episode, which they're they're they're superheroes, kind of. So, um, but uh I think that superhero fatigue is a word for people who are our age who are tired of them. Um there will always be little kids that this this this new Superman's gonna be their superman. Yeah. You know, and the and these new superheroes are gonna be their superheroes. You know, there will always be, I think, a world for them. It's gonna be Star Wars. There'll be people our age that kind of turn their nose up as it goes on. Me, I'm kind of weirdly enjoying it getting more bright and cool again, but yeah, you know, that's me.
SPEAKER_03:Uh quick to point out, Speed Racer came out in 2008. Oh yeah. So the universe went one way with Iron Man and the cinematic universe and Batman, and Speed Racer was left literally in the dust.
SPEAKER_01:I I don't know that I ever made it all the way through Speed Racer. I never liked it. I again I I I miss the whole like Japanese animation thing, and I get that's an old one, but still I didn't if I came upon the network, I changed it.
SPEAKER_03:I encourage you to at least go watch the third act. Because it's pretty it's kind of like Lone Ranger, how we've talked about how it just does such a good job building to its final act. Speed Racer does that too.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. Alright. I think Speed Racer's other problem is it whitewashed a very popular Asian cartoon. Yeah, it did. There's no Asians in that movie.
SPEAKER_03:Is there just a Meal Hurst? Well, they're undercover Syndicate who does a who is perfect as Racer X, by the way. Like is on point in this day. Matt Fox. Matt Fox, the role he was born to play, not lost, Racer X from Speed Race. Okay, all right, fair. Nails it.
SPEAKER_01:Alright. But uh that's secretly his brother or something? Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Because that was like it's like the unit's like the worst-kept secret of the whole show.
SPEAKER_01:I remember when I watched the cartoon as a kid, it tells you that in the opening credits. And I'm like, spoiler.
SPEAKER_03:Right. Yes. We're all like, what? Okay, fair enough. But that's what I'm I think that's getting back to what we were talking about. We talk about anime, but video games. Yeah. Also in exaggerated medium and format, and I think people are starting to figure out how to implement that into cinema.
SPEAKER_01:Well, let me ask you this. Are there good live-action versions of anime, or is it in the same realm as video games? It's very hard to do. Because I know there's the Dragon Ball Z movie, I know there's a Ghost in the Shell movie, I know there's multiple anime movies that got live actually.
SPEAKER_03:I think anime's harder. I think you're gonna they're when they finally figure it out, it'll be it'll blow up. Yeah. But I think it's just when you're talking about like a lot of the big popular shows have these like ridiculous power-ups or like uh movesets. Like Dragon Ball Z is all about like, hey, I'm gonna power up over here and transform, but they're still generally 20 episodes. They're still generally like humanoid. Whereas like you get into Naruto and One Piece and all these other ones, and they are bonkers. Like, if you try to explain that to the normal American, they're gonna be like, that's weird. I don't but like our age and down, my age and down is gonna accept it because it but it's but I think my our age millennials are gonna have a hard time because it's not gonna live up to our imagination that we built up for so many years.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, that's fair.
SPEAKER_03:What the kids will like it, kind of like you're talking about, like the new Sonic, the new Mario, it's almost copycats of of what we watched as kids, played as kids, and I think the kids eat that up very quickly. Like my nephews love Mario and Sonic and everything.
SPEAKER_01:Naturally.
SPEAKER_03:So I think with the Street Fighter movie, my instinct, what I'm what seems like they're trying to do is a little bit of that, but I think they're also leaning into the same things that Superman and Fantastic Four with like, oh, we're just gonna make this look like the video game.
SPEAKER_01:Here's the thing though. There is a weird secret weapon in Hollywood called James Gunn, who can turn anything into gold for some reason. Superhero things into gold. I don't whatever. I'm not really too familiar with all of his other stuff, but holy crap, even this Superman movie is like m all these other superheroes, I don't know, but I'm invested. Well, he just does a good job of like understanding of Green Lantern and made him fun.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. And so and But he was he's on point, he understands the characters. Like he's he's he is true to the source material. Think about the Prince of Persia, Jake Jill Hall movie that I always lambass like. It's a misfire because they didn't they didn't stick to the story. Yeah. It's the same thing with the Mario Brothers movie. Like they were like, oh, let's make it different. Let's make the Mario Mario and Luigi Mario and put him in New York. And like I don't mind the New York setting entering into the magical world a la Wizard of Oz. Yeah. But then you make it this weird hyper sexual cyberpunk world that has nothing to do with the video game that we played as kids. So it's it's like they Hollywood Forever just kept doing this thing where they couldn't help but meddle. They couldn't help but try to change it a little bit with when it wasn't needed to be changed. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Well, okay, so here's my thing. I I'm probably gonna disagree with you, but I don't have integrity because I don't know anything about anime. But I think video games are probably harder because of two reasons. Those things, it's like what you can get hundreds of hours of gameplay out of a video game. And they try to condense that into two hours.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You know, especially for something like this Street Fighter movie that they're making, is like I'm sure they would like it to be a franchise. Yes. I'm sure they would like it to franchise out, but you still have to put a lot in that first movie. Yep. You do, you have to cram almost too much. Like we gotta get the lore in because we're not guaranteed the second one. We want people to see some some stuff. But also, I think the reason like Resident Evil movies suck is that they're some of the most popular video games in the world, but that's because characters get invested making the choices. Now you're watching a two-hour cutscene where you I'm not controlling the guy. Right. That's I wouldn't have gone in that door.
SPEAKER_03:Because that's the problem, is like there's like you there you're you're removing the audience's ability, the player's ability to make the choices and take the story their own way. Yeah. But also, like with video games, especially a lot of the open world ones, you're exploring and you're trying you're you're uncovering lore or you're uncovering backstory, you're uncovering character development at your own pace. You could go straight for a beeline for the bad guy, like Legend of Zelda, and take out Ganondorf and win the game.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Or you could spend a hundred, two hundred hours helping some dude build the house.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And then they give you something that leads to another thing.
SPEAKER_01:And I think that's what the problem is. Because I mean they they even talk about like, oh, we Idra Selbas even said, I want to make a Cyberpunk 2077 movie with Keanuaries, me and him playing our parts. And it's like, we've already seen the movie, we played the game, man. Sure. And I had a lot more fun playing that game.
SPEAKER_03:And a lot of movies that like The Last of Us Show and this potential God of War series that they're gonna do, I think based off the newer games. Yeah, those games are basically just uh because I played the last uh God of War, the Ragnarok sequel, and it's basically just playing a movie. Yeah. Because there, it's so it's the the gameplay is just you're following a designated path and you're just following the storyline. Like I watched a playthrough of the first God of War, the reboot, and I was like, this is really I the story was really investing. Yeah, and so I was ready to play the second one, but then I was like just trying to get to the end to find out what happens rather than enjoying the gameplay.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and so that's my thing. I think like you bring up a good point, you brought up Last of Us. Last of Us is gonna be one of those live-action video games that I would say people probably consider successful. Not a movie though. Right. They chose to make it a series. They said, okay, it takes hundreds of hours to play through the story, we gotta take dozens of hours to tell the story. But um, and so that's one reason, but also there are video games that are kind of just storytelling in of themselves. Yeah. And you name two examples. Now we gotta bring it back. You have things like Mario, which they tried to make a movie in the 90s about that. Mario doesn't have a damn plot other than Save the Princess. A dragon steals a princess and you go jump on a bunch of turtles.
SPEAKER_03:Which makes it easier because it's like there's a beginning and an end.
SPEAKER_01:But still, you gotta fill in 90 minutes, which is where they got lost in some goofy, goofy goadrunner-looking.
SPEAKER_03:They got the boots, they got the boots that are used in faceoff.
SPEAKER_01:Like, oh my gosh. Like, hold on, but I think face-off took the boots. Yeah, yeah, they did, they did. Okay, let's let's give Mario some credit. They don't get a lot. That movie doesn't get a lot. They invented the boots, but they invented the magnet boots from faceoff. Um, and so it is it's that. But now we gotta bring it back to this other problem that we're experiencing in like we've only got one Street Fighter live action movie, or two. There was the Chun Li one that no one saw. That no one saw.
SPEAKER_03:I thought about watching it today, and then I went, no, it's okay.
SPEAKER_01:I've heard it was terrible. It was the gritty it was the gritty version. It was the gritty version.
SPEAKER_03:It was a spin-off of a movie that didn't exist. They're like, we'll start with the spin-off and build into the universe.
SPEAKER_01:So Street Fighter weirdly has this sister video game called Mortal Kombat.
SPEAKER_03:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:And they've tried a lot of times.
SPEAKER_03:A lot of times.
SPEAKER_01:A lot of live action goes at this between movies and series. Mini series, YouTube series. People making their own crap. Yeah. And they're all bad.
SPEAKER_03:They are.
SPEAKER_01:They're all pretty bad. Corey, here's even the new ones are bad.
SPEAKER_03:They're bad.
SPEAKER_01:So people kind of say the new one's good because of the tone. It's bad. It's bad. It's a bad movie.
SPEAKER_02:It's not good.
SPEAKER_01:And so there's a certain type of video game, and this brings us back to where you were going at the beginning of this. Tournaments don't make good movies, Nick. I disagree. I totally Bloodsport can't carry the whole thing. Corey, it's literally what they're based off of. Just do blood sports.
SPEAKER_03:But that's fine. Because most because the people, the kids that watch a Street Fighter or Mo Combat will eventually watch Bloodsport.
SPEAKER_01:But the problem is in Bloodsport, we're only following let's just say Ryu. Sure. That's it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:We don't know anything about anyone else. With Street Fighter and Mortal Kombat, you're bringing all this baggage of like, well, Scorpion's got a backstory, Sub Zero's got a backstory, this person's got a backstory. We gotta have at least half a dozen backstories of our top six guys in two hours. We don't know anything about Bolo Young. We just know he's a badass.
SPEAKER_03:That's all you need to do.
SPEAKER_01:That's true. And so when we're terrified for Jean-Claude Van Dam, he almost killed Ogre from Revenge of the Nerds, man.
SPEAKER_02:He did.
SPEAKER_01:And so, I mean, that's the thing. And like again, my point is Blood Sport's a good movie. Kickboxing, which is the exact or Kickboxer, which is the exact same movie with the same actor. Yeah. It's a sucky movie, Nick. And then in the 90s, he made The Quest, which is just Blood Sport in the past. And it was a sucky movie, Nick.
SPEAKER_03:Warrior is a tournament movie.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, about two protagonists. That's a great movie. It's a great movie. But again, we only had to care about two people.
SPEAKER_03:So you're saying that because of the large cast and the time they want to dedicate to all of them. Do you not get their favorite? You you brought this up though. I don't know if we we were talking about earlier before we started recording, was that you know, you're trying to force in all these people, but even in the Street Fighter games themselves, they make you go do the homework.
SPEAKER_01:They do. Street Fighter does. Mortal Kombat's weird. They put all the lore in the video games. Like it's and it's a heavy dude. Mortal Kombat's more confusing than like the X-Men in Marvel with the universes. The universe has been destroyed, rebuilt, everyone's different. This guy's good now, this guy's bad. And they all make it canon. That's what's weird. Yeah. And so Street Fighter, I don't know that ever had canon when the first games came out so much. It's like they had a pretty clunky story. Yeah. And then like Japan ran away with it. And they said we would well we made manga and comics and we have all this Street Fighter lore in this.
SPEAKER_03:Well, there's the animated movie. There's an animated movie. Now there's probably multiples of them, but there's also like anime, there's manga, there's comic books, even just from the American side.
SPEAKER_01:So like so you gotta be a real Street Fighter fan to know what's going on. Right. Yes. At all. You can't just play the games, I don't think.
SPEAKER_03:But I I I think I get where you're going with this, is that probably the best way to adapt video games is to try and use the TV, modern TV format.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Because it allows you 10 episodes, we have a tournament, but each episode we get to spend a little time with Blanca. We get to spend a little time with Ryu and Ken and Chun Lee.
SPEAKER_01:The best that's my confusion to this day with these two properties, Mortal Kombat and Street Fighter, which are that's the thing. Executives say these are valuable properties because they're still making video games. They have characters that are beloved and have been beloved for decades. But we want to make a 90-minute to two-hour movie out of them. It's like, dude, just make a 10-episode series. Yeah. Well, like Twisted Metal. Now Twisted Metal. I'm glad you brought up Twisted Metal. Because Twisted Metal just entered entered its second season and they focus on the tournament. But it's freaking weird, Nick. They're barely in the tournament because you can't tell a story in a tournament type of thing.
SPEAKER_03:I will so back to anime. Dragon Ball, the original one. Kit Goku's a kid. It's they have the the format of the Dragon Ball when they start is they go on an adventure for the Dragon Balls to make a wish. Okay. Then they have a tournament. Martial arts tournament. And then for r rinse and repeat.
SPEAKER_01:Dragon Balls are like the little balls with the stars on it. Yeah. They're not testicles from a dragon. No, no, no.
SPEAKER_03:No. They're not attached to the dragon. I'm just saying that could happen. Just clarify in an anime. That could be a creature. And I would assume they would have power. There's seven of them.
SPEAKER_01:Dragons, virility, all of it. Sure. I don't know how many testicles of dragons supposed to be. There might be seven.
SPEAKER_03:It's a good number.
SPEAKER_01:But um no, I think that is.
SPEAKER_03:But there's but their whole there's whole like a whole arc, whole series, the story is built around a tournament. And within the tournament, you get to have, like you said, there's episodes where it's like, okay, Goku's fighting this guy, and this guy's fighting for his family because they're starving, they don't have money, so if he wins the tournament, he can take care of his family.
SPEAKER_01:Is is are the episodes really short?
SPEAKER_03:They're 30 minutes.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. My wife's been, she's she found apparently my wife watched anime as a kid in South America.
SPEAKER_03:Dragon Ball is super popular, at least in Mexico.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know that I don't know. I haven't asked her about that, but she found some on Netflix, which is like the soccer. It's a soccer anime.
SPEAKER_03:There's all kinds of anime.
SPEAKER_01:The episodes are like eight minutes. Oh. I feel like. Or like 15 at the most. They're real fast. But it is a tournament. Okay. It's like soccer team versus soccer team. And they kind of give you a little backstory. It's like you're mainly with the good guy soccer team.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But they give you a little backstory on the bad guy soccer team they got to beat. It's really stupid, but um, she likes it. And so um but yeah, I would say that like that's kind of the problem in um I think a lot of this. I kind of I try to give thought to the Twisted Metal thing before because yes, they've made a show, it has room to breathe. They didn't float it with characters. I mean, or a lot of the characters are just one episode and they kind of come and go in the first season, which is more of a road trip movie. Yeah. Second one, we bring in Calypso, he brings in the tournament. The thing with that though is that video game has holes in of itself in that you're going through stages.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And the only way to go to the next stage is to blow up the other cars. The video game doesn't address how those drivers survived and got their cars that you blew up in the previous level back. Don't worry, that's fair. So when that goes into a TV show, it's like the tournament's weird because the tournament's not that. The tournament's not like, all right, last man standing wins. It's kind of like other stuff. They're like given packages or do this or do that. Oh, interesting. It's more like Mario Party, but we're just gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_03:So they're too scared to kill their darlings.
SPEAKER_01:I I guess maybe. I mean, some people died in like the original or in the first tournament level, like Junkyard Dog. Some of the last years.
SPEAKER_02:But in the show, I mean. Yeah, no, in the show.
SPEAKER_01:Like they killed some. Okay. But you know, it's kind of like that thing though, it's like, what do you do eventually? Like, where do you go? A tournament is a weird thing to kind of show, especially if you want to franchise it out.
SPEAKER_03:Here's the problem, Corey. The problem is we're in 2025, it's an IP, and you can't just tell one story. You have to keep telling the story, which is an issue. So if you try to tell the story of how one character overcomes the odds and kills everyone else in the Twisted Metal Verse, or if Ryu defeats everyone, or if you know someone wins in Mortal Kombat, but then you have to answer the question well, how do we bring back all those fan favorites for the sequel?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So I thought about this. Now, I mean, I can't really tell you what they do with I don't know what the long game is for Twisted Metal. Twisted Metal's pretty actually like I think it it fits the tone of the games that are not Twisted Metal Black. They're goofy. Okay. And uh Twist Metal Black's its own thing. And quite frankly, I would rather see that as a show than what they're doing, which is just kind of like nothing. As we've discussed immature kind of farming. As we've discussed in our former podcast episode. Um Sweetooth's about the only watchable thing in the show. Um he's done perfectly. Yeah. But two things. Mortal Kombat and Twist Metal both made this weird sin, because we're talking about one of the main problems with these video game movies is too many characters. They both created characters. Why?
SPEAKER_03:We already have too much going on. It goes back to what I was saying. They don't know how to not meddle.
SPEAKER_01:It's someone stupid saying, well, we gotta make an avatar for the video game player. You don't. You don't. This isn't a video game. It's not. Like, I'm not, I don't need to be in the movie at all.
SPEAKER_03:You know who the you know who your avatar is? Ryu.
SPEAKER_01:And Anthony Mackey can't carry anything, Nick. He's not a leading man. I stand by it. I'm sorry, Anthony Mackey.
SPEAKER_03:They put the belt on Anthony Mackey, and he's not he's not having a good title to finish.
SPEAKER_01:Imagine Stan was leading Twisted Metal would be a phenomenal show. I can't say that with confidence. But I just want to say it. Um, but yeah, like, and but so they both did that. So so far, Street Fighter hasn't done that. They have not created a fake character.
SPEAKER_03:Not yet. No, not yet. I haven't seen a character for something dumb. Of all the cast lists I've seen, it's all characters from the video games.
SPEAKER_01:Which is that so far, they haven't committed that cardinal rule of creating a new character.
SPEAKER_03:Or super changing them. That will be the other big change. It's like I can understand like, well, we're trying to all fit in this this tone of the world we're in, so we have to tweak a few things. Or you know, in the instance where a game character from the 80s or some 90s even, you know, is kind of tone-deaf now. You kind of have to tweak it a little bit. I get that.
SPEAKER_01:So my second point though being that Street Fighter ha that Street Fighter has going for it, Nick.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:It's not a fight to the death in these games.
SPEAKER_03:This is true.
SPEAKER_01:Mortal Kombat, that's their problem. They kill Kano in the first one. And it's like, well, crap, Kano's no longer in the movies then.
SPEAKER_04:Until he is going, yeah, you know.
SPEAKER_01:And so and and apparently Kano dies in this new Mortal Kombat, and apparently he's in the second Mortal Kombat.
SPEAKER_03:Maybe the joke is just he's gonna die every time. Maybe so. He's part robot, right? He's like bionic.
SPEAKER_01:Of this first of this reboot. He was probably he did so good. He was the best part. That's fair. Everyone else kind of him and the guy that played Scorpion and Sub Zero. Oh, yeah. Which they don't even have lines. They're all presence.
SPEAKER_03:Well, they they they nailed, they just need if there was ever like we just need to make a movie about one person, they need to just make one about sub-Zero.
SPEAKER_01:Kyriogi Sonata, which is just he's all presence, man.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, he's great.
SPEAKER_01:And so he plays Scorpion, and so but like I think I think Kano just gets his eye. Right. Like he'll be able to do that. But you could just have a running thing.
SPEAKER_03:You could have a running thing where it's like he just keeps getting rebuilt.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. You could. And he was really good. But like, and Mortal Kombat's now going towards bringing in Carl Urban, of all people, and which is gonna be awesome, I'm sure, as Johnny Cage. But like, so this Street Fighter movie, Nick. We gotta you're you're a fan so far of the stunt casting, right? I think Yeah, I'm on the opposite side with you a little bit. I hate it. I like some of it, but I hate most of it.
SPEAKER_03:Elaborate.
SPEAKER_01:I think to me, it's just telling an audience we're also not taking this seriously. It's almost like they're they're packaging up the joke that's the 94 movie and saying, we're gonna continue the joke. We're not gonna do anything new. We're gonna make this a really weird ass cast. Because the first movie's a weird cast.
SPEAKER_03:I think it's I think it's a little early to tell. But based off the casting, I think I mean you're talking about larger than life characters. You're throwing WWE wrestlers, rappers, you know, giant actors.
SPEAKER_01:I've never in my life.
SPEAKER_03:Well, he's he's it's he's enjoyable. But is he? Orville Peck, yeah, he's he's he's an indie guy. Oh, okay, I was thinking right. He's writing Lollapalooza. Okay, I got it. Yeah, he's that he's that warped tour kid. I think my thing is like I'm down with the stunt casting. Which if you don't know, it just means that they're bringing in big names to draw uh interest in the movie.
SPEAKER_01:That's what stunt casting names, or just outside of acting.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, just like notable names. Like the Disney remakes are all stunt casting to an extent.
SPEAKER_01:Putting in uh a lot of or that's stunt casting in a that's stunt casting in the way that Lollapalooza, while we're on the temp date, booked Metallica in 1996 or 95. They're like, hey, the festival's dying off, let's bring in an A-less band to sell tickets. In Lollapalooza 96 was like a Metallica tour with a bunch of openers, is what it turned out being. That's that version of stunt casting. You bring in a heavy hitter to get people to buy in. But then there's this other kind of stunt casting, which is let's get the wrestlers and the rappers and the people that don't typically act a lot and bring them in. We're bringing in their audience.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You know, it's kind of like that. So I think I think there's a positive stunt casting, and I think there's a shock jock.
SPEAKER_03:Because I think the first the former that you're talking about, I think that's just how Hollywood operates. You get a script, you get a director, and then you attach somebody to it to sell it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but I mean, when you're talking about stunt casting for a Disney remake, you already have our our era going, Ugh, why would you change this? So we bring in Emma Watson from Harry Potter, and we're like, oh, I'm in.
SPEAKER_03:Originally we were all like, sweet, I can't wait to see live action, Aladdin and a Lion King. And then you find out who the cast is, you kind of go, Oh, that'll be fun.
SPEAKER_01:Will Smith was some bad stunt casting for that.
SPEAKER_03:It was it was some rough stunt casting. What were you gonna do though?
SPEAKER_01:You were damned if you do either way. That was a screw, that was a s you're screwed. Yeah. That was a you better just find a great no name.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. You know who?
SPEAKER_01:Paul Walterhauser. No, no. He would have been a great genie.
SPEAKER_03:He'd been a great sultan, but he's also not Arabic, so Well, neither is Will Smith. They tried their best. That one that one they were trying their best to like go, okay, we're gonna put that we learned our lesson from Prince of Persia, so we're gonna make sure that we're at least you know centric to the area. People from Africa could have come up.
SPEAKER_01:That's true.
SPEAKER_03:They they did their best. That lamp should have traveled some miles. Yep, yep, yep.
SPEAKER_01:They definitely didn't travel from the UK.
SPEAKER_03:It did not. It did not travel from the UK.
SPEAKER_01:Why is there no UK genies?
SPEAKER_03:Because uh whitewashing.
SPEAKER_01:They they killed off all their natives and why didn't anybody in the UK ever like enslave some spirit into a lamp?
SPEAKER_03:Well, the Celtic folklore is a little more different. I don't think they had lamps, they had rocks and stuff. They put you in the Blarney skin. So yeah. It was about the gold pot, you know. I am doing terribly at just generalizing here.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I mean, for sure. But we're we're we're not from either parts of the world.
SPEAKER_03:So um Well, they see what happened, Corey, back in the day is that the Dark Lord Sauron put all of evil inside of his ring, and and then from there anyway, yeah. Someone had to invent lore for for them to create evil objects like that. But back to the point. Back to video games.
SPEAKER_01:I'm sorry, I came out. I started thinking about how I started re-watching Kazam the other day.
SPEAKER_03:I will so speaking of Lord of the Rings, though, I'll come back to your point of video games and stuff, is that The Hobbit should have been a miniseries.
SPEAKER_01:Should have.
SPEAKER_03:Should have been should have been what done what Rings of Power did was like, because it's too episodic. We're gonna spend time here, we're gonna spend time here, we're gonna spend time here. Instead, they stretch it out for some reason over three movies.
SPEAKER_01:You don't think they could have just made a good three-hour Hobbit movie? They made a good three-hour movie for the other bigger books.
SPEAKER_03:It's too it's too fragmented. Like they spend all this time here and here and here. And there's not a true overarching story going on until they really get to smog, and that's when like it starts messing with Thorin, and like they're they actually have some interplay between them, you know.
SPEAKER_00:That's fair.
SPEAKER_03:But yes, I get what you're saying about how video games are hard to adapt because you're trying to encompass what sometimes is 200 hours into 200.
SPEAKER_01:Two hours, and and you're also trying to take 30 characters and give them and you're well, I mean you're trying to guess like who are the best. And I even did this with Street Fighter, I think you have four stories you have to tell.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I think you have to tell Ry Ryu, or Ryu, um, Chun Lips, which is he's the villain, so he didn't need a ton of screen time, but guile, you have those are those four people have to have screen time, and that's already four people that I we have to make a really good story around.
SPEAKER_03:And that makes my point about the other stunt casting is like you've got all it's like the supporting cast is the stunt casting. And then the top cast you have, you know, David, however you say his name, Dash Malin, yeah, who's from The Dark Knight and uh, you know, some other like lesser indie movies and stuff the last several years. But you have all and then you have a bunch of no names, or at least very young and up-and-coming actors from like Dasmalkian was in what was it?
SPEAKER_01:Um where he just did the horror movie. Yeah, the dev and it was like a late night show Devil. Whatever the devil, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I will find the proper answer for you momentarily, but yeah, they've late night from the devil. Dark Knight. The Suicide Squad, he was Polka Dot Man, he was in Prisoners, you know, Last Voyager of the Demeter, if you watch that. Yeah. But he a lot of a lot of he's appeared in a lot of different movies. But you've also got like these young up-and-comers playing all these lead roles that are more known for like either like Netflix series or they've had smaller roles in like a Stevens Soderberg movie or something of that nature. You know, the guy playing Ken has a like Netflix movies, and then he was Adam Smash Grand Black Adam.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So they're really I I my thought is that if you're gonna go all the way in on the stun casting, go all the way in. Like don't don't half-ass it. Don't go, I let me give you 50 Cent over here. That's an interesting thing. Then give me give me Noah Centinio over here as Ken, the lead actor.
SPEAKER_01:That's the thing. You actually do have, I've I didn't even think about that, that you do have kind of like it's kind of a three-way thing. You have up and comers like Andrew Koji, you know, who is in Warrior, the the HBO TV series, yeah. Um that was pretty good. Um, and then you have, yeah, your stunt casting, your Roman Reignses, your Cody Rhodes, your 50 Centre.
SPEAKER_03:Even Jason Momoa.
SPEAKER_01:Like I think he's the third tier. Then you bring in this actually established actor who's like, is he have to ground the whole thing as Blanca? Like, is it like is he gonna be the main poster?
SPEAKER_03:Well, I think if it's also there's again, there's a lot of unknowns. Even the director. The director has done minimal work. He's only known for like working with Eric Andre, basically, on his show. So there's no true like idea yet. He's he's worked in comedy, so I'm like, is this gonna be a comedy wink wink thing like you're talking about? Or does he just is he just hasn't had enough experience and he's finally getting his chance to go, like, okay, I'm gonna show you how I make a movie.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I would say that when they first announced like the principal cast, I wasn't so freaked out. But then they added 10 more characters, and I thought, alright, we're getting into a Mortal Kombat Annihilation situation here where how much full crap like cameos. Like, how much this is just nonsense? Like, this is already too many people. I don't like that they have Dan Hibbecke as a character. He was a joke character in the franchise to make fun of like another game that was ripping off Mortal errors ripping off Street Fighter. Yeah. And he's being played by one of the most insufferable comedians right now.
SPEAKER_03:But they've got Eric Andre too playing Don Savage.
SPEAKER_01:He's just an announcer. Right. So, I mean, like, that's I guess okay. But but I think I don't know, it's it's a weird have to see him get ripped and take the shirt off and fight somebody.
SPEAKER_03:I don't think it's impossible that you can mix all these pieces together, but I do think it's a lot of tone balancing. Like, I'm just worried that you're gonna get the these no-name young actors that haven't proven themselves yet in these very iconic roles, and I'm worried they're gonna be bland, like the kid in Mortal Kombat. Like, it's like it's one thing if you cast a young up and come and you're like, oh wow, this is the this is the kid from Stranger Things that was really great. Yeah, but it's another thing to be like, I 10% of the audience saw this guy in a rom com on Netflix, you know, and and you want him to play Ken Masters.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So that's the problem I keep seeing them run into is like you want to build new stars. It's just like a wrestling promotion. You want to build the new stars up, and you wanna, but yeah, and you want to gracefully let the other characters have their time on screen, but they're already well known and dominating.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:So like they're going if you don't have somebody that's just meant to be a movie star, what do you what are you doing?
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:I think that's my thing. Like, if I was me, I'd and I'm whoever Legendary Studios and whoever's putting this together, I'm like, go don't give me the kid. Give me somebody that at least is knowledgeable and we'll have fun when the role. If you're having fun with everybody else, have fun with everybody on board, you know?
SPEAKER_01:I think you've nailed it. I mean, I know that you're a little more into this cast than I am, because again, I feel like we're just gonna get a movie that's already self-poking fun at the end.
SPEAKER_03:I feel like we're gonna be bottom heavy. Yeah, I mean I think everyone's gonna come out at the movie going, like, I didn't give two shits about Ryu and Ken, but man, I love 50 Cent as Balrog. I love Roman Reigns and Koji.
SPEAKER_01:Do you think there's gonna be just some people, some you think like there's a well that's the other thing. When you bring in all these other characters, you have that like risk of like, dude, no one unless you watched Warrior or Bullet Train, you don't really know who Andrew Koji is. Right. But we all mean 50 Cent in and he's just chewing scenery and he's not gonna be able to get it.
SPEAKER_03:But this goes back to my point.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Andrew Koji does have stunt and martial arts background. Yeah. When you're making a fighting movie about fighting, why are we not hiring the best stunt cast? Why is the John Wick director not being approached with this? Why are the guys from Hong Kong cinema, from Japanese cinema, why are they not the ones being contacted saying, we just need you to make this look excellent?
SPEAKER_01:Because I think you still I I would say that there's a problem there when you get also get into martial arts, like movies like this, like with Mortal Kombat or this, is that like just because you know a lot of martial arts doesn't mean you're gonna be a good actor. No. That's the problem. And and that's rarely the case that you have someone that does both really well. Right. And so you needed your Keanu Reeves. Yes. That you stick your Donnie Yinz and your Mark Damasco around. Like your yeah, your your Hiroyogi Sanada's around.
SPEAKER_03:So maybe Andrew Koji is the key.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Maybe if if they focus on him and be like, we need because if I'm the director, if I'm the producer, I'm sitting there going, You cast all these people, now they're all entering training for three to six months, and they're gonna continue to do it because none of them are proper martial artists or anything or fighter. The wrestlers and the boxers and stuff or whoever, like, they'll be better at it because they just do physical work anyway.
SPEAKER_01:Let me ask you this, because maybe we've stumbled onto another problem, another psychological problem. When we take IP that's very like beloved, right? Something like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat for people our age, yeah, who grew up around this and played the video games. Do we expect a list attachment to our favorite characters? Or and I'm not saying necessarily me and you, but an audience, a general audience, do we expect our favorite character to get like, oh, why didn't they get like a guy from my guy? Or are we open to that being like, my guy, I'm willing to like let them break someone out?
SPEAKER_03:I'm assuming I'm assuming a lot. Yeah. But I think general audiences. This is more of a question that should be asked. Yeah, I think my assumption is that general audiences want their guy. If they want Ken Masters to be played by, you know, a name. Yeah. They want a Ryan Gosling, they want a somebody that they like. They don't want they're gonna sit there and go, who is this no-name kid? Now unl unless they just I think they're more forgiving when it's like, yes, it's kind of like the Superman movie. Like, you didn't know who that Green Lantern was. Yeah. But they hired. There's a notable name. But but even like Hot Girl and I can't remember all their names, but all the different surrounding superheroes nailed their character. So I think people are willing to forgive not having somebody of note if you nail the character.
SPEAKER_01:That's the thing. I mean, you're you're pretty much saying audiences to come watch this and give this a shot. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:You know, but it can also backfire. It can sometimes create bad press. Because like Heath Ledger was not the first choice for a Joker. Michael Keaton won the first choice for bad. They all freaked out and they all freaked out. And then we went in and went, oh, they had an idea here. We were totally wrong. But most general audience, especially with how toxic the internet and stuff is now, like sometimes movies live or die off the casting or the trailer or a poster, even.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:So I think now it I think general audiences, it's very important about who you cast, obviously, but I think they would rather have the the fan castings I see all the time of different movies and shows, it's all well-known people.
SPEAKER_01:You might be bringing me around on this a little bit, like in the sense of I like the idea, I I get it. All right, we're bringing in some names to get people in the seats, and we're hoping the young, the young no-name actors do a lot of the heavy lifting that Cody Rhodes is not gonna do. Yeah. You know, no offense to the guy, but he's a pro wrestler and he he kind of has one note. And so, but like, that's what I'm saying. Like, I get what you're but what I think of immediately, Nick, is G.I. Joe. The the movies.
SPEAKER_03:The Channing Tatum. Both okay. They're both bad.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they're both bad. No, they're bad. But it was kind of the same thing. It was kind of like we threw some big name people in here, we expected some people to do the lifting, none of it got done.
SPEAKER_03:Right. No, it did. And the even that one you could look at, like, they just got small details wrong. It's all about the details. Like, Lord of the Rings is so good because they focused on the details and made it as accurate as possible to what and just nailed it. G.I. Joe, they gave Snake Eyes a mouth.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, they I on a mask. You're gonna do the thing where you say they changed it.
SPEAKER_03:They changed it.
SPEAKER_01:Which but I mean but I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_03:But it's and it's and it's you could sit there and look at it and go, like, oh, that's dumb the focus on that. But what did the internet say? What did people say? Like, it was fun, but why did they put nipples on the batsuit?
SPEAKER_01:Just let the batsuit have nipples. It has nipples. Just let it have nipples. It looks weird without them. Maybe that's all it was. Maybe. Alfred was just trying something new. And so, uh, why do they gotta change the car all the time, Nick? That's another question. I mean that's way more expensive than putting nipples in the batsuit. Is it? They rebuilt the car all the time. The car gets broken, Corey. That's true. And so, um, but I will say this like for every Heath Ledger, though, I would say he's almost the exception to the rule to the Joseph Gordon Levitt as Cobra Commander, that we get way more, which is like that would that didn't work.
SPEAKER_03:It didn't work.
SPEAKER_01:And we all kind of we were all like in because we're like, Heath Ledger worked, this is gonna work. And we're like, right.
SPEAKER_03:He was in a different movie. Yes, he was. He was he was great, but he was in a completely different movie. Yes, and and they changed the character too much. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Never saw the hood, saw nothing. It was just goofy.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it it was it wasn't a you don't do that for Cobra Commander. No. Unless you're making a prequel movie and you have young, handsome Joseph Gordon Levitt become Cobra Commander.
SPEAKER_01:I agree. Alright, we should probably hop deeper into this. Umly before we get to the casting, Nick. What is the plot of Street Fighter?
SPEAKER_03:Is it the plot of Street Fighter?
SPEAKER_01:I think Mortal Kombat has a very clear plot, which is there's a bunch of realms, there's a tournament every hundred years, sure, and the best fighters in the world get together, and the first realm to win ten gets to like take over everything or something.
SPEAKER_03:Something like that.
SPEAKER_01:It's like, or at least the dark world or whatever it's called. They they want if they win ten, they get to take over all the realms.
SPEAKER_03:That's right. If you win ten in a row or whatever, like you get to dominate.
SPEAKER_01:Shingstone won nine, and so that's the plot of the video game is you're loo you're a spray Liu Kang and you're gonna go stop it. Right. You know. And so that Street Fighter, I actually had to dive in because I was like, I don't know what the I don't know what the game's about. I played that game all the time as a kid and I don't know what it's about.
SPEAKER_03:I can tell you what Paramount says the movie is.
SPEAKER_01:Tell me.
SPEAKER_03:Set in 1993.
SPEAKER_01:I do love that it's set in the 90s.
SPEAKER_03:Estrange Street Fighters, Ryu and Ken. So they're just straight up saying they're street fighters. They're already fighting. It says estranged. Okay, so that's some beef there. They're already fighting, yeah. Uh thrown back into combat, spell with a C, not a K, when the mysterious Chun Li recruits them for the next World Warrior tournament. And uh but behind this is a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against M. Bison and his group. But they said, and if they don't, it's in All Capitals game over.
SPEAKER_01:Of course. Um, that's the problem. Mortal Kombat has a pretty standard good versus evil. When I was diving into the Street Fighter plot, I'm like, okay, so you have these two, Chun Lee and Guile, and they're not they have no relation, but they both don't like M Bison because they ruined their lives. He killed someone they loved.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Right? Guile's mad because M Bison killed his buddy Charlie, and Chun Li's mad because he killed her father. And unrelated incidents. But you have two people that are mad.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And then you have Ryu and Ken just hanging out. They really have no beef with M Bison. They have beef with the other villain, Akuma.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:You know, because Akuma killed their sensei, and so there's already two villains. I'm assuming Akuma's just gonna show up at the end.
SPEAKER_03:Probably. That's just my that's my assumption. Yeah, something like that.
SPEAKER_01:He's just the Shao Khan of this. He's gonna show up at the end and set up a second one.
SPEAKER_03:Possibly.
SPEAKER_01:But Mbison puts on a tournament mainly because he wants to like find a body to put his own consciousness in. This is the lore. Yeah, yeah. He's something called a psycho warlord, or he has psycho powers or something. He he's the pink stuff from Ghostbusters 2. He harnesses negative energy. Oh, okay. And uses that to fight. And that's how he has his electric stuff. This is the lore of the video games. And so. But he's also like just a dictator of an unnamed country in Southeast Asia.
SPEAKER_03:So he's like Doctor Doom a little bit.
SPEAKER_01:A little bit. And I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm not mad that it's an unnamed country. That was smart for a Street Fighter not to say a country. Right. Um, but he's a dictator, but he also runs a criminal enterprise. He's got a lot going on. He's got a lot of hands and a lot of cookie jars.
SPEAKER_03:Well, it seems like, just based off this premise that Paramount Pictures apparently released, the the final line is what's important. But behind this battle royale lies a deadly conspiracy that forces them to face off against each other and the demons of their past.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:So it sounds like they're kind of doing the warrior thing a little bit. Like we're gonna focus on Ryu with Ken, and it is in the tournament and they're entering this world, but it's really about them colliding at the end of the movie, probably.
SPEAKER_01:Which Ryu's kind of like your Leonardo bullcrappy, I'm all self-disciplined and serious and fighting of religion type of thing, and Kim's like your Johnny Cage. Yeah. He's just like, I'm wealthy and want to be taken seriously, but also I like girls, you know, type of thing, and worldly stuff. And so, um and so, yeah, I guess that's a movie. But I think it can't just a lot, but then but there's also Blanca, Sogget, Ball. There's so much in the shadows.
SPEAKER_03:But I think I think that's I think that's the problem. That's the pro here's the problem with modern like movies with IPs like this is like like you said, everybody has a favorite, and they're gonna get mad when their favorite only gets five minutes of screen time.
SPEAKER_01:And that's gonna happen.
SPEAKER_03:But when you're telling a story like Superman, how much screen time did the rest of the heroes get? They weren't feat they were featured, but they weren't like the main focus.
SPEAKER_00:That's a good point.
SPEAKER_03:Like it can be done well, is what you're saying. It can be done as well. Like you don't have to give everybody's backstory, it can be done in minute ways, either visually or like a quick aside here. Like you don't have to spend the whole movie exploit building exposition. Again, you don't have to dumb it, you don't have to explain everything to your audience, and you don't have to like if you want to make a movie about Blanca, go make the Blanca movie afterwards.
SPEAKER_01:Ooh, you're talking about a Street Fighter universe here.
SPEAKER_03:But I'm no what I'm saying, but my point is like make the movie at hand. Yeah. Don't plan ten movies ahead. You know what happens, the dark universe happens when that happens.
SPEAKER_01:That wasn't that was that was not anyone's fault but Tom Cruise's.
SPEAKER_03:That's fair. But what I'm saying is like you if you're trying to tell this story, it's okay if you have these interesting characters that potentially are more one note, function as in ten minutes we have to deal with Blanca, in ten minutes we have to deal with this one, in ten minutes we have to sit here.
SPEAKER_01:No, I think it's true.
SPEAKER_03:It's just like video games. You have boss fights and advances the story forward. Like you don't have we don't I don't have to have 50 Cent being like a big deal. Like he's gonna show up, do his thing, and everyone's gonna have a memorable moment from it.
SPEAKER_01:Alright, before we dive into the casting deck, I will say this, bringing back the whole idea of a tournament movie. Mortal Kombat 1 was a tournament movie.
SPEAKER_03:The new one?
SPEAKER_01:No. The old one. The old one.
SPEAKER_03:Yes.
SPEAKER_01:It was a tournament movie. You like that, right? They do go to an island and they're a tournament. It's a tournament.
SPEAKER_03:But it wasn't.
SPEAKER_01:It was.
SPEAKER_03:It kind of They like literally get on the beach. No, it wasn't. They Kano fights some Jamaican. They talk about the tournament, but they don't have the tournament. It just turns into this brawl that they have. Okay, so that's. No, no, you're talking about the original. Sorry. I'm sorry. Yes, the original is. Yes. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:What were you talking about? The original movie, the new movie. No, I know I I you literally asked me the reboot and I said, No, sorry. Get with it, Nick.
SPEAKER_03:I'm too locked in.
SPEAKER_01:Like the old Mortal Kombat is a tournament movie. Yes. They have like a fight on the like Sonia Blaine Blade kills a Jamaican guy. She takes a story. They kill Scorpion real quick. Yeah, Scorpion. For some dumb reason. So that's my question, though. It starts out as a tournament movie. Yeah. But then it turns into weird fights and weird set pieces without an audience. Yeah. Like Sub Zero and uh Scorpion are killed in random fights where they're like one's in an orchard and the other one's in just a hallway. Yeah. And so my thing is this does that count for you as still a tournament movie? If Street Fighter doesn't do everything in front, if it does they don't blood sport it, not everything's happening in an audience.
SPEAKER_03:Or does it when you say like you're saying that it's off-screen?
SPEAKER_01:No, I mean like the tournament needs to be in an audience.
SPEAKER_03:I see, I see. Um well that one was weird because yeah, like they make it like this battle royale like Hunger Games, like, alright, you're on the island, now go fight.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:I think you need to have it focused on yeah, I think you need to have the audience.
SPEAKER_01:It needs to be there. Because Mortal Kombat starts out that way. Shang Song's at the fights, there's people watching. That's the mistake it makes it turns into like just random fight.
SPEAKER_03:And I think they do that to try to speed up the process, but I think you can do that. Like it's it's a boxing term, it's a fighting term, it's it's karate kid, you know. Like you need the audience there for the spectacle of it all.
SPEAKER_01:I always thought that they were gonna try and do that to show famous stages for Mortal Kombat, and none of those stages were famous. Yeah, well, that's the thing.
SPEAKER_03:Again, 90s Hollywood filmmakers didn't respect the material and didn't have the attention to detail that a Lord of the Rings or a Star Wars or somebody was trying to do.
SPEAKER_01:If there's not a fight on like a dock with a BMW randomly parked behind them fighting, I'm gonna be upset, Nick.
SPEAKER_03:But okay, but that goes both that goes two ways. Okay, that's a double-edged store because like at one hand it's like when you do it and somebody notices and goes, Oh, that's a great attention to detail. But when you're sitting up getting mad because they didn't have the car that would get smashed. That's on you. That's on you for focusing on the wrong thing. But if you Zang Geef fighting in some weird prison. But if the story's good, you don't focus on those things. It's when the story's bad and you go, like, okay, why didn't they just do this here? Well, you start you start cinema sensing it. You start picking things apart.
SPEAKER_01:This movie lives and dies on that BMW for me. Just saying. I mean, it's written by it's being made by star movie, and I'm gonna walk out going, didn't destroy the car, and that will be randomly parked outside of a Christmas.
SPEAKER_03:That will be, if not yours, it'll be somebody's letterbox review.
SPEAKER_01:I love it. Okay, let's let's talk about casting this thing. Okay. Outside of their weird cast, right?
SPEAKER_03:Sure.
SPEAKER_01:Because I and I think I have the weird cast. Like I I have like the most I have it written down. Um I got it somewhere.
SPEAKER_03:That's right here. I got it when you're ready.
SPEAKER_01:Uh all right, so let me count real quick, just so we can just make this ugly. Sure. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen in-game characters. Have you ever been here?
SPEAKER_02:I didn't even count that high.
SPEAKER_01:Um, I don't know who Marvin is, but I'm assuming he's not an in-game character. Sure. Uh I would hope not. I can Google Marvin Street Fighter see if he was a character at anything.
SPEAKER_03:Um I would be surprised I didn't see Marvin get brought up in my original character, damn it! But what is he doing?
SPEAKER_01:He doesn't look like a cool guy, so he's probably not a fighter.
SPEAKER_03:He's probably who's he being played by Kyle Mooney. Kyle Mooney, who is a comedian, right? Yes. I believe he was in the Saturday Night Live. He's the guy who made Y2K.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, Kyle Mooney. And I think uh yeah, he's gonna be.
SPEAKER_03:He'll be a comedian. I think they're peppering in not just these wrestlers and stuff, but also comedians. So I think you're right that there's gonna be some winking at the camera, or at least they're trying to make it more fun than the super serious more.
SPEAKER_01:It does not seem like he's gonna be playing a main league avatar for the.
SPEAKER_03:I hope not. And I hope he's not like the side character that just keeps hanging out.
SPEAKER_01:That will be that will be um uh that'll be Hibickey. That'll be Dan Hibicke. Okay. That's pretty much what he is. Um, so those characters are Joe, Julie, Cami, Iha. Honda, Zangief, Vega, Don Savage, Dulcim, Guile, M. Bison, Dan Hibicke, Balrog, Chun Lee, Akuma, Blanco, Ryu, and Ken Masters. Those are all characters that appeared as fighters in the game.
SPEAKER_03:I still think it's possible.
SPEAKER_01:I mean it is. I mean, it's like a lot of these could just be in the background. Sure. I mean, they could do it well. Like the guy who stands by Bane for all of Dark Arises is actually a character.
SPEAKER_03:Boba Fett Corey has the biggest impact for a character with minimal screen time. And we didn't learn anything about him until later.
SPEAKER_01:That's true. Um, well, I mean we learned too much to be fair. Let's give TR8R some more.
SPEAKER_03:Also, also, again, somebody went, that guy's cool. I want to learn more about him. Less is more, Corey. Less is always more.
SPEAKER_01:So, uh, Nick, did you cast all these people in any sort of version of Street Fighter? Or like, do you want to talk about any of them?
SPEAKER_03:I did, because I didn't know if we were gonna like lament the current cast and try to fix it, but I I just decided to like kind of throw it where I think a Street Fighter would work well. What did you do?
SPEAKER_01:I cast every single person I said. Except for Julie.
SPEAKER_03:In the current in 2025?
SPEAKER_01:I yeah, yeah. I said, okay, I did what I wanted to see, which was give me a a like we're taking this seriously.
SPEAKER_00:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Like, like like James Gunn is directing this. Okay. And he wants it to be really watchable and really good. Sure. With something that's fun. Okay. He's not gonna gritty it, but he's gonna said, I'm gonna tell a really good story. Sure.
SPEAKER_03:And I'm gonna take this pretty seriously. Um yes, I did somewhat of the same. I didn't do super gritty. I did like I just did it more like, okay, I'm trying to kind of recreate the movie, not in an over-the-top way, but I'm fitting it in the early 2010s. Because after that point, we've had Sin City and we've had things like Scott Pilgrim, which embrace their video game. Yeah. Speed Racer can be included in there. So I'm saying, what if we went down that road?
SPEAKER_01:That kind of like maybe it lived in.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, where it's it's a little heightened, it's a little over-the-top, everything's and we can have fun with it. But I didn't go like I didn't cast a bunch of wrestlers and stuff. I went I tried to keep it in the actor realm, basically.
SPEAKER_01:I might have done some wrestlers.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, that's fine. And that's perfectly fine. Because in because if that's what we're going for, it's a big movie about people punching each other.
SPEAKER_01:My wrestlers aren't stunt casting. It's I believe in them, Nick. I believe in them.
SPEAKER_03:So I'm just gonna have you start, because you have more than me, potentially.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, absolutely. Okay, I'd had to look up some Julie and Joe. I did not cast Julie. Julie's just like this character that shows up. I guess M Bison had an army of women in the comics or something called the dolls. Nice. Um, and that's what Cammy originally is. But she defected, and that's why she doesn't like M. Bison. No. Julie is still a doll.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, she's still a doll.
SPEAKER_01:She's a fighter, showed up in Street Fighter Alpha. Okay. I did not cast her. Joe is weirdly from a little game called Street Fighter, Nick.
SPEAKER_03:The original Street Fighter?
SPEAKER_01:Street Fighter 1. Most people don't understand that when we say Street Fighter, Street Fighter 2 is the game everyone owns. Right. Street Fighter 2 is the arcade game we all played. Yes. There was a Street Fighter 1 that no one knows anything about. I mean, Ryu's in it. S Sagat's the main villain.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_01:That's why he has a scar.
SPEAKER_03:I'm surprised Sagat's in this movie.
SPEAKER_01:He is.
SPEAKER_03:He is? They casted him?
SPEAKER_01:Oh no, but you're wrong. I do not have a Sagat.
SPEAKER_03:Are you talking about oh, Zangef? Are you referring to Zangief?
SPEAKER_01:No, I'm talking about Sagat, the kickboxer, the tall dude with the scar across him.
SPEAKER_03:He's in this movie?
SPEAKER_01:No, he's not.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:No, sorry. I thought he was, he's not.
SPEAKER_03:Sequel. He'll be in it for the sequel.
SPEAKER_01:Oops. Um, anyways, Joe is a character from the first one.
SPEAKER_03:Sure.
SPEAKER_01:Like it I think that's wild. I see him.
SPEAKER_03:I've looked him up. I see him.
SPEAKER_01:Um, and maybe a friend of Ryu or something. Anyways, I casted Matthew McConaughey because I want a washed-up guy from a previous tournament.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, I could see that. That could be fun.
SPEAKER_01:I want a washed-up fighter from a previous tournament that's just gonna show up for one scene. Tell Ryu he shouldn't do it.
SPEAKER_03:I played this game.
SPEAKER_01:Open up a shirt, shows like 50-year-old man abs and got a scar, and he's like, that was embassing. You know.
SPEAKER_03:Alexander Volonovsky's going to play him in the actual movie coming out.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I don't know what that means. Who who no idea who that is.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. But moving on, who are you gonna sit on that? Oh, he's a UFC fighter.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, okay.
SPEAKER_03:Nate will be really excited. See, they're pulling it's not casting.
SPEAKER_01:They're casting.
SPEAKER_03:When in doubt.
SPEAKER_01:Is Alexander Volvanovsky is he going to be a part of the card in front of the White House?
SPEAKER_03:I uh don't know, but he's an Australian fighter.
SPEAKER_01:Is he going to is he going to promote Street Fighter TV?
SPEAKER_03:He currently competes in featherweight. He is the current and two-time UFC Featherweight Championship, so possibly, Corey. Possibly.
SPEAKER_01:Alright. It's gonna be fighting in front of the White House promoting Street Fighter 2026. So I moved on to Cami. Did you cast a Cammy?
SPEAKER_03:I did cast a Cami, because I assumed she would be somewhat of a big deal. She was originally played by Kylie McNogue in the 94 version, and this one she's being played by Mel Jarnson, who was in the other Mortal Kombat as Natara, a vampire character. I'm assuming she dies. So she's in both.
SPEAKER_01:Hey, she gets to say that.
SPEAKER_03:She gets to say that.
SPEAKER_01:Um famously Kylie McNog in uh Jean-Claude Van Damme started their affair on the set of Street Fighters. It's one of those Mr. and Mrs. Smith type of castings.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. Shame Coldplay wasn't around back then. Yeah. Um I picked Yvonne Shoshowski uh from Chuck and Handmaiden's Tale. I think she just has the classic blonde um look. Apparently there's a bit British background to Cammy, so I think that that ties in as well. She's also known for Dexter. Um but again, this is in the early 2010s, so she's she's very popular at this time from the shows and stuff.
SPEAKER_01:I went with Zoe Bell. Zoe Bell. Zoe Bell, who is in a lot of Tarantino films, and she's actually more known as a stunt woman. Oh, yeah. And she was in Deathproof.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. She's one of the Australian. She's the main one that rides on the top of the car. That's my Cami. Okay. She's like six foot four and I hope she doesn't have a lot of speaking lines. She does fine, but she's likable, but she's not she's not an actor. She's fine. She's fine. She's fine.
SPEAKER_01:It's a fighting movie, Nick. I hope it is a fighting movie. She's just gotta look badass if she's ripped.
SPEAKER_03:There you go. Who's who's next on your list?
SPEAKER_01:Um, I I Honda. I'm going off just this list.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I Honda. So the sumo wrestler uh type of character.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, in the uh I have to look, I don't even know who Hiroki Guto is.
SPEAKER_03:He is a New Japan Pro Wrestler. He's currently the IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, winner of multiple tournaments, the G1 Climax, New Japan Cup. Listen, if you're into wrestling, Japan's like being an into indie artist.
SPEAKER_01:This guy's way too ripped to be I. It'll work. It'll be fine. It's fine. He's a little he's a little built.
SPEAKER_03:I didn't cast anyone, but who did you cast for that?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, dude, I'm proud of this one. This is like my favorite. Um, let me find him. I went with Ma Dong Siok, which is the main, like the the burly dude from Train to Busan. The guy we really root for. Nice.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, very nice. Yeah. That'll be good.
SPEAKER_01:That's my Ihna.
SPEAKER_03:That's that's a good that's a good casting.
SPEAKER_01:That's dude, I was proud of that one. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:If you haven't seen Train to Busan, watch it. We're in Halloween season anyway.
SPEAKER_01:Train to Busan.
SPEAKER_03:It's a zombie movie, guys. Watch it.
SPEAKER_01:But you care about the people. Most zombie movies are just kind of waiting for these insufferable people to get got. Yeah. This is when you're like rooting for all but one person.
SPEAKER_03:It's like Godzilla minus one. You're suddenly like, I care about all these people and I'm terrified they're going to die.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, exactly.
SPEAKER_03:Um, I did not cast the name of Ronda, but I think that will be an interesting uh character character. He was played by Peter Navy Tuaso so so sopo.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, like a Samoan dude in the first one.
SPEAKER_03:Um Geef.
SPEAKER_01:Zangief. Very large Russian man.
SPEAKER_03:Apparently he's a wrestler. And they didn't cast a wrestler. Yeah. They casted Oliver Richters, who is the Dutch giant known for his Guinness World Record holder, as the world's tallest professional bodybuilder. You're not the strongest, but you're the tallest.
SPEAKER_01:Who, Olivier Richters?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, Olivier Oliv Oliver Richters. Is it Oliver or Olivier? Oliver. Yeah, it's Oliver Richters.
SPEAKER_01:There's an I there's an I. He's a tall man. Look. Yeah, but like that's you pronounce that Olivier.
SPEAKER_03:I said Oliver.
SPEAKER_01:That's all Olive Olivier is not Oliver.
SPEAKER_03:Olivier. Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:It's like uh that dude that played Hamlet. Lawrence Olivier. I'm pretty sure that's it.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, okay. Okay, alright, alright.
SPEAKER_01:What's gonna laugh on this guy's like it's Oliver.
SPEAKER_03:Corey, I mean you already know I can't pronounce names. I'm doing my best over here. Um, but he I'll give you who I got.
SPEAKER_01:He looks like Zane Geef.
SPEAKER_03:He does look like Zane Geef. He's gonna be pretty good.
SPEAKER_01:This is stun casting. Maybe he looked at this guy and said, I don't know if he can act, but he looks exactly like That's all you need, baby. You're not gonna have any lines.
SPEAKER_03:So in my more more scaled down version in 2011 or 12, I'm gonna give you Leave Schreiber.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Who was formerly Sabretooth in the X-Men movies. He was on the TV show Donovan, and recently he was in Caught Stealing, uh, a movie that came out a couple weeks ago, which was fun. But I think he'll he'll have fun with it. I think he just nails it.
SPEAKER_01:I'm giving you Miroslav Barnyshev.
SPEAKER_03:Kazutai. Rusev. Oh. Nice. Rusev or Miro. He's one of our wrestlers. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:But he's huge and he's an actual wrestler, damn it.
SPEAKER_03:And he's actually from that area of the country of the world, so it works out.
SPEAKER_01:So, yeah. I think he'd be a good Zane Geef. Okay. You know what's funny as we go through these? I actually don't know what the motivation of half these characters are within the lore.
SPEAKER_03:Zangeef Zangeef. He's just a he's he was he was a former like wrestler apparently from Russia.
SPEAKER_01:I think he goes, I think M. Bison like tricks him into joining the tournament as like you're gonna represent Russia, and then he just finds out Mbison's a psychopath.
SPEAKER_03:Russian national hero who was always seen fighting for the glory of his country. So it's literally Russo.
SPEAKER_01:So he just Dolph London in Rocky IV.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:How do we feel about Russia in 93? We're over that, right? Cold War's over.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, it's hmm.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, we're still not.
SPEAKER_03:Stoo John them, I guess. Yeah, there would still be some some hangover from that, I would imagine.
SPEAKER_01:I didn't know how he was going to be portrayed in this movie.
SPEAKER_03:Well, it's 93, yeah, so they might and it's not like we're not being told like it's not like Russia's bad, not still bad. Like they didn't turn a new leaf by any means. Who do you have next?
SPEAKER_01:Um I have Vega. Vega, who's this apparent He's like a Matador with a mask.
SPEAKER_03:It's wild.
SPEAKER_01:In claws. Matador, he is Wolverine as a matador with a mask.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. Handsome Wolverine.
SPEAKER_01:But it's like his whole thing is like he's like vain, I think. It's like he protects his face because he thinks he's pretty. Right. The guy that actually plays him in the 94th Street Fighter does a really good job. But he and maybe, and hopefully that's what we get out of a lot of this, because he has like zero lines.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_01:He just gets scratched in the face and decides he hates Ken.
SPEAKER_03:He's just a tall, handsome Spanish matador turned assassins, famous for his blonde, long blonde hair. He's narcissistic and sadistic.
SPEAKER_01:Is he famous for assassins?
SPEAKER_03:Famous for his long blonde hair. Oh, I think he is a matador turned assassin. Turned assassin. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:That's a weird career jump.
SPEAKER_03:But he's he's obsessed with beauty. He despises anyone he considers ugly, takes great pride in graceful combat. Cool. So, with that being said, I picked Jared Leto.
SPEAKER_01:And this is that's a good one. That's pretty good. I like that. That's pretty good.
SPEAKER_03:Early 2010. He hasn't aged a day probably since then.
SPEAKER_01:No, I he's all over these Tron Ares trailers. I'm like, dang, you still look like you're in 2004. Um Orville Peck is the new guy.
SPEAKER_03:Yes, and he is kind of an indie artist, I would I guess is the best way to describe him. Yes.
SPEAKER_01:Again, stunt casting. They literally said he wears a mask.
SPEAKER_03:Maybe they know him too, but uh maybe he's a big fan as well. But he's actually from South Africa.
SPEAKER_01:Corey Taylor of Slipknot. What he wears a mask. We couldn't get him.
SPEAKER_03:That would have been fun. But he's not hand- he's not he's not He's sort of handsome. He's handsome, but he's not like beautiful. You know, but neither is neither is Oval Pick. Like he's also just looks like I mean I don't know. He's wears a mask. I don't know what he looks like.
SPEAKER_01:Most b Kiss, Slipknot, Hollywood, and most of those guys, they wore masks for a reason, man. They weren't conventionally handsome.
SPEAKER_03:That's fair, I guess.
SPEAKER_01:So that's Vega's great. I like Jared Leto because he's genuinely pretty.
SPEAKER_03:Right. It plays into the character more.
SPEAKER_00:Hold on, let me find mine.
unknown:Mine are not the same one.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, I had two.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:One's kind of serious, and one's like, I kind of like what I'm doing here.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Bill Skarsgard is pretty good. He's super ripped. Tall. Tall, super ripped. He's very pretty.
SPEAKER_03:But he's like uh uh uh unconventional in a way.
SPEAKER_01:He's very unconventionally kind of attractive, but he's way too pretty considering he only plays ugly monsters in movies right now. He's literally no Swarati, so in Pennywise the clown. But how about this? Give me Zach Efron. And it's kind of weird because he has kind of this weird dysmorphia, right? He's he's done a lot to his face. And I feel like that could go into the character.
SPEAKER_03:He'd need to lean out a bit.
SPEAKER_01:Well, I mean, like, but I mean, I'm just saying, like, imagine if Vega being obsessed with narcissism. I get the visit is kind of like clearly too much plastic surgery. He just keeps trying to improve himself. It would be hard to explain that to Zach Afronto's face when I'm casting him. Like, listen, you've really done a lot.
SPEAKER_03:I don't think you do. I think you just let him play the character and later be like, that was really inspired casting, and then they talked to me. I don't know. I don't know.
SPEAKER_01:But I'm like, they got it.
SPEAKER_03:Nailed it.
SPEAKER_01:He's still really attractive. Yeah. I'm mainly just coming from women who I know liked him, and then they said, mmm, he's got a big chin now.
SPEAKER_03:It's different. He had a he had an accident.
SPEAKER_01:That's what I've heard. I've heard it's like a Luke Skywalker situation. You know, gotten a gotten an accident.
SPEAKER_02:It could have been a good Luke Skywalker.
SPEAKER_01:Oh yeah, I wouldn't have got that. I kind of like Zach Efron more. I'm good with that. It's more fun. I like my subtle, yeah, my subtle knock.
SPEAKER_03:I think Skarsgard is a good is a good pull.
SPEAKER_01:Because imagine if Vega is a deep character who was pretty, but as he gets aged, or he's in an accident, does some facial reconstruction, and he hides his face now because he used to be more conventionally handsome. Yeah. Okay. Okay. It's all narcissism playing on multiple levels.
SPEAKER_03:Got it, got it. Okay. Who's next?
SPEAKER_01:Uh Vega is Don Savage.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, I did not I did not cast anyone, but he's you said he's the announcer and he's gonna be played by Eric Andre. He'll be played for laughs and stuff.
SPEAKER_04:I don't think I did a Don Savage.
SPEAKER_03:I did not either, but in case people were wondering, yes, Eric Andre is playing this character. So if you if you're uh uh Eric Andre fan, that's one reason to go. Uh he in the past this character was part of a rock band. It didn't manage to make much profit. He literally, if you just look up Don Sauage, like he's got like an Uncle Sam top hat. He's wearing like a fancy suit. He looks like what's the announcer, the manager guy that was with Hulk Hogan for a while? Jimmy Hart? He looks like Jimmy Hart. He's literally just Jimmy Hart.
SPEAKER_01:You know what? I'm just putting Paul Heyman. He didn't have to look like him at all. Just I want Paul Heyman announcing fighters in this movie.
SPEAKER_03:You should have picked Danny McBride. That would have been fun.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but I mean like if this movie sucks, Paul Heyman can sell me on it in the middle of the movie.
SPEAKER_03:That's fair. That's true. He's he's great at selling stuff. He's convinced he can convince me to watch something.
SPEAKER_01:He can at least get if the movie's bad once we get to a fight and he's introducing these people, I'm like, I'm in the right. Alright, I'm in.
SPEAKER_03:You've convinced me.
SPEAKER_01:You've convinced me to care about this fight. Um, okay. Moving on. Dolceem.
unknown:Who?
SPEAKER_01:Dalsim.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, Dalsem. Sorry, yes.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, in the game, he's like uh he's a very much kind of the horrible stereotype of like an Indian witch dog.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, we're gonna have to do some, we're gonna have to do some really Indian man. He's being played by stretch in the game.
SPEAKER_01:That was his whole thing.
SPEAKER_03:Mm-hmm. Yeah, he's he's he's a long arm and his fighting ability. And he is like an Indian martial arts uh new age action heroes.
SPEAKER_01:Have you seen any of those uh Indian movies that just took off?
SPEAKER_03:Not that I'm aware of. Oh, you need to watch RRR. That's what I've heard. It's incredible. It's it leans into like this hyper hyp hyper realized world that we're talking about.
SPEAKER_01:They should have just gotten an Indian like Bollywood Street Fighter.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know why they haven't yet. I don't know why they haven't yet, Corey. You put Bollywood on anything right now, it's gonna be gold.
SPEAKER_01:Like constantly. Constantly. Just like here, we made a Friday the third or 13th movie or a Night Renal Street movie, and we didn't ask permission at all.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know why I haven't watched more Bollywood movies because the ones the one I saw was great.
SPEAKER_01:I've they're they're doing really cool stuff.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. And they've got they're they're bigger than Hollywood.
SPEAKER_01:I've watched a lot of the stuff they ripped off in the 80s. Yeah. Just because it's wild. They made like an it. Oh. Like after the 90s or mini series came out. They made they built a lot of horror. Okay. Their Freddie Krueger movie's weird. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Interesting.
SPEAKER_01:Um I put Dev Patel.
SPEAKER_03:I also put Dev Patel.
SPEAKER_01:Uh, mine makes more sense because I'm doing post-Monkey Man.
SPEAKER_03:I'm doing post-Slum Dog Millionaire.
SPEAKER_01:So what did he what fighting skill did he show in Slum Dog Millionaire?
SPEAKER_03:Nothing, but we know he has it. We know he's got it.
SPEAKER_01:It's in there somewhere.
SPEAKER_03:He's like, I've never done anything. Don't, I know, you don't trust me. Just trust me on this dev.
SPEAKER_01:You took that torture like a champ. Yeah, so I'm pretty much just taking him out of Monkey Man saying, just do all this.
SPEAKER_03:Well, you don't have to take him out of Monkey Man.
SPEAKER_01:No, I'm not taking him out of Monkey Man. I'm just saying we're taking what he was in Monkey Man. This is Dulcine. Okay. This is our 2026 Dulcene.
SPEAKER_03:Sure, sure. Okay. I like that. We're not going to have chicken bones through your nose. No, we're not doing that. We're not doing that. The rings around your neck. We're not doing it. No, no, no, no, no. Okay. Yeah. Agreed. Handshake. High five.
SPEAKER_01:Alright. Nailed it. Um let's do Dan Hibickey.
SPEAKER_03:I did not cast that. I'm assuming it'll be some comedian.
SPEAKER_01:Is comedic like fodder, is all it is. He's an overconfident fighter who sucks.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I don't like Andrew Schultz as a person. Um, because he's just using his podcast at relentlessly, like relentlessly now to be like, yeah, I voted for Trump, but I didn't want any of this. It's like, well, you got what you you voted for, sorry. Stop. Stop playing the that game. Just own it at this point. Um I'm giving I want Nate Bargetsi.
SPEAKER_03:How are you gonna convince anyone that Nate Bargetzzi's been in a fight?
SPEAKER_01:Andrew Schultz is a fighter!
SPEAKER_03:That's fair, but like Andrew Schultz seems like an idiot.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but Nate Bargetsky also plays a good idiot. If I put him in karate gee and he's an overconfident fighter and sucks, it's hilarious. He's the most self-deprecating.
SPEAKER_03:I'll I'll I will reserve the right to see your version of it, but I have high doubts about the believability, even to put him in.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. Andrew Schultz might do good. I just don't like it.
SPEAKER_03:I think you have to have somebody that has overconfidence. It's and then they just are constantly going like, ah, he he ha if I hadn't if I had done this one move, he he would have been done.
SPEAKER_01:I would I wouldn't have taken Andrew Schultz buddy Shane McGuinness in this role more. But I'm taking Nate Barghetzi. Okay, okay.
SPEAKER_03:Fair, fair fair, fair enough.
SPEAKER_01:And I think Dan Hibicke is could be like a bigger guy. I think he's supposed to be kind of out of shape.
SPEAKER_03:He's kind of out of shape. I need a visual of Dan because I looked him up earlier, but uh, but I was like, he's he's a joke character. The problem is he's giggly. He has Steven Segal here.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, now if we didn't want to whitewash him, he has Steven Segal here, Corey.
SPEAKER_03:Can I make him Steven Segal into it?
SPEAKER_01:You could.
SPEAKER_03:He's just you could. Steven Segal has it coming, okay? He does. He's literally this character.
SPEAKER_01:You just tell Steven Segall that he's the star of the movie, and then you just make fun of him. And then we get the stunt man to try to understand, hey, we're filming bloopers. Yeah, don't worry, don't worry. Right, right, right. And then at the end say, we cut all your scenes. I'm sorry. Also go back to he shreds at blues guitar, weirdly, Steven Segal. But he's like a big I keep seeing these videos where he's really supporting that like martial arts that's like mind. Like you can just push over a 600-pound car by barely touching it, by putting all your energy into it.
SPEAKER_03:Don't disbelieve that. It's goofy. The last time I saw him, he was doing kung fu in a rolling chair. So anything's possible.
SPEAKER_01:Um, but yeah, you're you're I'm taking Nate Bargettsi, you can take Steven Segal. I'll take Steven Zegal as a joke. Yep. Um that's fair.
SPEAKER_03:Who's next?
SPEAKER_01:Um, let's go up to Balrog. Oh, thank god. What are you really excited about?
SPEAKER_03:No, I'm just I'm glad we're past all the joke characters. Um play by 50 Cent Curtis Jackson himself. Um, boxer is basically what Balrog is. If you need a little more detail for M Bison. Oh, he's a heavy for M Bison. Okay. Nice, nice, nice, nice, nice. Okay. So who do you have for him?
unknown:Crap.
SPEAKER_01:Oh, I put uh yeah, uh Yahya Abdul Mateen. Okay, that's good.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:He's a badass.
SPEAKER_03:He's known for Watchmen, he's known as uh Candyman. He's a new candy. Some of the versions make him look like Mike Tyson a little bit. So there is temptation to put Tyson in that role for my era, because he's only like 45 at that time, I think, is when I did the math, maybe. But I am putting in a kind of unknown name, Omar Sai. He's basically just known as Bishop from Days of Future Past. He's got the look, I feel like. Okay. So I enjoyed that. I was tempted to put Kevin Durand from uh multiple movies, but like recently he was in the recent Planet of the Apes sequel.
SPEAKER_01:Who I I w I I okay, you can tell me, Nick. Because I don't know what your opinion is. But um, and let me look him up. Because I I forgot his name all of a sudden.
SPEAKER_03:Oh wait, I'm I'm I'm I'm out of my mind. That's I'm on a different character. I was on a different character. I was on Blanca. I'm thinking for Balrock, I picked uh Michael J. White.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, alright. Michael J. White. Yeah, he's a legitimate fighter. Yes. Um So here's my thing. I like Yaya Abd Abdul Mateen. Yeah. But if we're okay with it, I would rather have Jonathan Majors. Have we for I don't I haven't I didn't keep up with the Jonathan Major stuff a lot. It seemed like he got cancelled and then he got found like he didn't do any of the stuff. I think it's a good one. But Disney had already been like, we already pivoted, sorry.
SPEAKER_03:I feel like it's a little bit of the Johnny Depp case where it's like he didn't do terrible things, but he did some bad stuff. He did some bad things. He did some bad stuff, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well we forgave Johnny Depp. Well, yeah, but they need pirates movies. Well, I mean they don't need Kang movies now.
SPEAKER_01:I they did.
SPEAKER_03:Clearly they didn't. They just said droppy tennis year, come back. Please, we need you. Here's a million dollars. A billion dollars, please.
SPEAKER_01:Well, whatever. If Johnny Depp gets to still work, then I'm getting I'm putting Jonathan Majors here.
SPEAKER_03:I'm not arguing against it.
SPEAKER_01:It looks like he played a boxer convincingly in Creed.
SPEAKER_03:He did, he did. I'm not against it. So I'm just thinking you're gonna have some some pushback, is all I'm saying. But uh yeah, so who is next? Is it do you just want to go to Tyson?
SPEAKER_01:Who really did do some bad stuff.
SPEAKER_03:He did do some bad stuff, but he also was for weirdly forgiven. So strange. This is fine. World is strange. Uh, do you just want to jump up to Blanca since I already gave away my answer?
SPEAKER_01:Let's let Blanca would have been the next problem.
SPEAKER_03:Kevin Durand was who I thought about, but I went with Omar Sai, who's a lesser name, but Bishop, he just has the cool look.
SPEAKER_01:Kevin Durant?
SPEAKER_03:Durand. Oh, yeah, that one's good.
SPEAKER_01:Kevin Durant's a good one.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, he's pretty good.
SPEAKER_01:He could have been a good Zangeith.
SPEAKER_03:He also would have been keeping it.
SPEAKER_01:What's your problem, man? Subscriber? Give him my give him Kevin Durand.
SPEAKER_03:He'll have other times and opportunities.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, no, yeah. Um my block He's young. My block, I'm pretty proud of this one too. Tom Hardy. Okay, so you're just a genuine jujitsu champion, apparently. Just legitimately randomly gets in jujitsu tournaments. Yep. And Tom Hardy plays weird stuff.
SPEAKER_03:He does. That's true.
SPEAKER_01:He's very good at playing weird. Just I just want to be Mad Max, but with all this the with the stuff. The makeup and the hair. Whatever he's gonna look at. Look like. Okay. Just talks very little, kind of animalistic.
SPEAKER_03:Normally I would say you can't that's a lesser role and Tom Hardy wouldn't take it, but then I'm also like, but it's Tom Hardy, and he's almost he's almost Nick Cra Cage crazy enough to be like, sure. Yeah. So come in.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Alright.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:Next victim. Oh, he will be played by Jason Momoa.
SPEAKER_01:So do you Yeah, that's the biggest name.
SPEAKER_03:I feel like that's so kind of true to what you're saying. Like, yeah, big name's playing him, so Tom Hardy doesn't sound like that.
SPEAKER_01:I wonder how big is Blanca's role in this, or is Momoa just like, eh, check.
SPEAKER_03:Momoa kind of comes off as the dude that's either a check or he just likes this stuff. That's kind of true. He's kind of a hippie. Yeah. He's kind of a nerd, is what he is.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, he goes to goes to Metallica shows and gets in the mosh pit.
SPEAKER_03:Uh you wouldn't if you were a celebrity?
SPEAKER_01:I would have I would be afraid of just getting crap from people.
SPEAKER_03:And he's also Jason Momoa. Like he's not speculated. He's a likable guy. Yeah. I'm not a special guy. But he's also not smart.
SPEAKER_01:He's a large man. He is a large man. I'd have to really bulk up. Um I'm more of a Javier Bardem, go to metal shows and sit in my box and get into it.
SPEAKER_03:I didn't know that about him. Good to know.
SPEAKER_01:No, he's super no metal.
unknown:No.
SPEAKER_01:Um, all right. Speaking of Metal? Metal, let's just let's just go to our main villa. Let's go to one of our main villains.
unknown:Akuma.
SPEAKER_01:Let's do Akuma, because I have a feeling he's just gonna be late in the I he'll either be late in the game teaser for sequel, or he'll probably show up Darve Maul and just be like in the shadows all the time.
SPEAKER_03:Maybe, yeah, something like that.
SPEAKER_01:Um being played by Roman Reigns.
SPEAKER_03:Yes. Which I he looks like Akuma.
SPEAKER_01:Roman Reigns is yeah, if we because it couldn't be The Rock, because the Rock would have just been like, I'm gonna be a good guy. Right.
SPEAKER_03:We need to make the Akuma movie. Akuma's gonna be a good guy. And we're gonna start the movie with me, and that's really what I was going for. But yeah, we're not doing that. Um I think I think Roman has a chance here to kind of prove if he is an actor or not. I think so too. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:And it's a role that he probably didn't have to do a whole lot for.
SPEAKER_03:No, he just has to aura farm and he also has to brood. Yeah, and I think he does those. And and most of his new his current version of his character was just like looking menacing, whispering plans and talking about destroying people. Um so yeah, I picked Jet Lee. He's a slightly older Jet Lee.
SPEAKER_01:He's also very small.
SPEAKER_03:He's small, but Tom Hardy's small.
SPEAKER_01:I gotta find my good. Okay. Yeah, I mean Tom Hardy's small, but I just wanted someone but Balanca doesn't have to he's more of a monkey man. I just wanted a green monkey guy.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, so in the heightened reality of this, you it could be also argued that like that's just base form. Okay. And the fight could bring it out of him. That's true. This is me on the fly trying to make it make sense to you.
SPEAKER_01:What's trying to dragon ball Z this? You're trying to suicide him, you're trying to make his hair big.
SPEAKER_03:This happens in movies all the time. That's true. In comic books as well. It's not just Japanese anime.
SPEAKER_01:So you're saying it's gonna be Jet Lee until the fight, and then Kevin Nash is gonna put on six.
SPEAKER_03:No, no, we'll just we'll just add too jetly. Because I want Jet Lee, I want the legitimate threat of Jet Lee's martial arts. You bring up Tom Hardy.
SPEAKER_01:Tom Hardy played Bane and looked massive, but he's probably shorter than Christian Bale. Right.
SPEAKER_03:So Yeah, because Christian Bale's like six foot, six foot one, and he Tar Hardy, I think, is like five'nine or five ten.
SPEAKER_01:So Okay, cool. Um my Akuma. So I had the same problem. This is where I was gonna throw Hiro Yuki Sonata for all his presence. Also thought about that. But he's like five foot seven, and so I was. This is where I'm gonna put Batista. This is this is Batista.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, no, that's fair.
SPEAKER_01:Best wrestler-turned actor of all time.
SPEAKER_03:You need to give him some a wig, but yes.
SPEAKER_01:My Akuma can be bald. I don't have to have a steep hair. Okay. He can be bald. Okay, okay. He's fine.
SPEAKER_03:So you would so in so this is a modern recasting, and so you're you're rather you would rather have Batista the proven actor versus Roman Reigns, the the young stalwart, if you will.
SPEAKER_01:Because Batista's proven he's a good actor. Yeah. And and has range and can do what needs to be done. Sure. You couldn't put the rock here, even though the rock would look really good in the role. He just has proven that he doesn't want to play a villain villain.
SPEAKER_03:Even though he's proven he's really good at it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's that's what's stupid. He's one of the best villains in wrestling ever, and he just won't do it. I will say this even though he's not in the movie, I did cast a Sagat and I put Dwayne Johnson.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:Because I would force Dwayne Johnson to be you're the villain that lost, and now you're second to M. Bison. Okay. Okay, interesting. I would have forced him, like, you're gonna be humbled and you're gonna play a defeated villain with the scar. But I think he would play an anti-villain. I think you could make Sagat a a convincing anti-villain.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:This guy who was the the boss in the first game loses, gets the scar from Ryu, and now he's kind of under M Bison. Yeah. And it could be I could give him a face turn. If Lin doesn't really need it, if he if he to sign on, I'll give you a face turn.
SPEAKER_03:Sure, sure. So I'm I'm okay with that, I guess.
SPEAKER_01:Alright. Rounding this out, let's do you want to go to M Bison or Guile?
SPEAKER_03:Oh, I was just uh that's either either way's fine with me. Um let's go to Guile.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:While we're in the world of wrestling being played by Cody Rhodes. He doesn't walk onto the scene in that song. He doesn't walk into his first match in this movie playing that song.
SPEAKER_03:You think they'll just lean super hard into like a rah-rah American guile?
SPEAKER_01:He's got a freaking skull American accent, too honestly. I don't think they're gonna be a good one.
SPEAKER_03:There's no way you can make that in in the canon.
SPEAKER_01:I think they're gonna make that in the canon, Nick. Um anyways, yeah. So being played by Cody Rhodes, which honestly is probably my favorite of the stunt casting. Okay. Because Cody Rhodes looks like Guile.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:He's looks a lot like Guile.
SPEAKER_03:He's posted a photo of his shadow with the Guile hair.
SPEAKER_01:So I'm kind of pumped.
SPEAKER_03:It'll it'll give me it gives me some hope that they're going in the direction I hope they are.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, that's fair. Um so who do you have for Guile?
SPEAKER_03:Alexander Skarsgard. Okay, alright. I picked the other Skarsgard. He's played Tarzan, he's played the Northmen. I think he'll I think he'll have some fun.
SPEAKER_01:He's weirdly like the weirdest Skarsgard. He's kind of the weirdest. Somehow Bill's not the weirdest. Yeah, Andrew's the weirdest.
SPEAKER_03:But he also but he's more leading man looking, which is also strange.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:But I think he'll I think you give him the haircut, you give him the military garb, and like he can nail the whole like look and feel and vibe.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. I went with Glenn Powell.
SPEAKER_03:That's okay. Alright, yeah. So you okay, so you went eight. He's on a run right now. Might as well just let him lead. Yeah. He he's he's got nothing going on next year. He's fine. So I don't even know what he's doing.
SPEAKER_01:He's probably got a lot going on next year, but um I'm I'm just Glenn Powell's on quite a run right now, so I'm just gonna let him lead my 2026.
SPEAKER_03:You think he'll be but be one of the main players? The American lead. Okay, okay, got it.
SPEAKER_01:So um yeah, I I mean, whatever. He's just the kind of he's kind of the weird leading man in the world right now.
SPEAKER_03:It's also interesting that there are so many like pro wrestlers in this movie that haven't been in a big movie yet. Like, there isn't Cena Rock and Batista aren't here. These are like the next the next generation of stars that are trying to break through.
SPEAKER_01:I think Batista would have turned it down, and I think the other two are aged out.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Like you could have put Cena would have been a good guy.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I had him listed for Guile, but I was also like, that's just Peacemaker almost.
SPEAKER_01:Unless you just want to like write an older guile. Yeah. And that's a way to maybe give him less of a story, I guess. Like maybe, you know.
SPEAKER_03:Or or a different take, so it's he differentiates from Ken and Ryu a bit.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, a little bit. That's the problem, is you'd have to you have to like dilute some of these people down a little bit.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Um, okay, that brings us to M. Bison. Okay. I also love this casting. Of David. I like David Dasmalkian a lot. He's a he now in the in the game, he's this big buff man. Yes. He's he's just they riled Julia did. They said we're gonna go with a so listen, if we were doing an eighties version of this, Duff Lundron's probably gonna play in bison.
SPEAKER_03:That's that's probably, yeah. Like he's probably him or Zen Geef.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, that's where he's gonna end up.
SPEAKER_03:But he's also blonde. So he could be guile in an 80s version.
SPEAKER_01:You could literally, Zane Geef could be or be Dolph London and Arnold Swarsen are going to be in Bison. I mean, they're they're gonna buff him up.
SPEAKER_03:I bet we're gonna get a lot of audiences that are mad at us for not taking this to the 80s.
SPEAKER_01:I would have put Judd Nelson as M Bison. I like what Rahul Julia did. I want the cunning cult leader M Bison. Okay. That's because my thing with M. Bison being huge is why does he need all these huge guys around him all the time? It makes more sense that he surrounds himself with the Zingese in the Balrogs if he's not a massive dude. You know, I like the whole cult leader kind of vibe of it. I would have made a Judd Nelson M Bison, and that's kind of why I like David Dismalkian in this role that I like that it's not gonna be just some huge dude. Right. I like that it's gonna be more of a conniving, manipulative cult leader.
SPEAKER_03:And it's interesting because he usually plays kind of weirder eccentric characters. So it's not I don't know if it's gonna be like the booming pres magnetic presence of Julia. I think it's gonna be something different. Unless he just decides, like, I'm gonna throw this out of nowhere kind of thing.
SPEAKER_01:And that's he's the kind of guy that probably could give us something weird and kind of something that we could but like sink our teeth into. And I like it. But it's also this Inbison's a dictator. Tell me one dictator in the world that looks buff and good. Vladimir Putin's just whatever, he's a gross little man. Kim Jong-un's a gross little man, uh, Nicholas Maduro's a gross little man. They're all gross little men.
SPEAKER_03:True.
SPEAKER_01:The wannabe American dictator, gross little orange man. Yep. Like they're not they're dictators because they're insecure. Right. You know what I'm saying? Like that's why you have to do that. So you think that's kind of the way they're gonna go with it? Absolute power. That's why I like Raoul Julius, that's why I would prefer Jeff Nelson in an 80s one, and that's why I like David Dosmalki in here, rather than them making it like Adam Driver, you know, or something, you know.
SPEAKER_03:I went a little weird with this one. I don't know if it would work. But I didn't want to but I didn't want to go with the usual suspects of Javier Bardem, Christoph Waltz, and Stephen Lang.
SPEAKER_01:Okay.
SPEAKER_03:I'm gonna give you Hugh Jackman.
SPEAKER_01:I think it'd be fun.
SPEAKER_03:I think because he's never truly played a villain, he could have that presence a bit like Raoul Julia.
SPEAKER_01:What I love about Hugh Jackman as an actor is he's a song and dance man before he's anything, and I think that makes him like one of the most versatile actors on the planet. I think it's fair. Because he's just song and dance guy. He can literally do anything. Yeah. The fact that he can run a whole Broadway play that's just him that's true. Like a Broadway show that's just him than song and dance, like that he could bring so much to a character like him bison.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. You know because we know he can play the more masculine side of like Wolverine, obviously. But now we and we've seen the layers below with you know Jean Valjean and the greatest showman.
SPEAKER_01:I would say I would if I was directing Hugh Jackman and say, like, give me the prestige. Yeah, give me this literal descent into insanity for power.
SPEAKER_03:And a little maybe I haven't seen it yet, but the clips I have seen of prisoners. Is it prisoners? Prisoners prisoners, same thing.
SPEAKER_01:You're an obsessive and you believe this guy's guilty to the point of madness, you know, type of thing. Um, well, you you shit on mine. Uh Harvey Bardem is is is my M Bison in 2026.
SPEAKER_03:It's he there's a reason he gets put in those rules because he's good at them.
SPEAKER_01:He would be incredible, I feel like, in the suit and the hat. And he would be menacing.
SPEAKER_03:He would. He would. I just here and this is again, this is where like it's funny that we talk about stunt casting and we're debating all of this because like we our show is literally a casting show, and so we ride the lines oftentimes between stunt casting. Constantly. Yeah, like it's this is where the we it gets weird to talk about this in a meta way.
SPEAKER_01:They're like, your movie would cost a hundred million dollars in salaries.
SPEAKER_03:Get out.
SPEAKER_01:Get out.
SPEAKER_03:And then you're like, I have money from the future.
SPEAKER_01:Just let me talk to Glenn Powell. I can talk him down. I can talk him down.
SPEAKER_03:Trust me, trust me.
SPEAKER_01:Hear him out, hear him out, guys. Um all right, so that's my advice. So we still have three people who go Chun Lee, Ryu, and Ken Masters, which will be the big three leagues. So give me your Chun Lee. Give me Ken Masters.
SPEAKER_03:Okay, Ken Masters, who uh was played by Damien Choppa in the 94 version. In 26, he's gonna be played by Noah Centino again. Centen Centineo. He's from some Netflix movies. He was in Black Adam in a smaller role. I'm giving you Jake Gyllenhaal, Corey. Ooh, you know how I'm blonde Jake Gyllenhaal.
SPEAKER_01:I like Jake Gyllenhaal. You know that.
SPEAKER_03:I think I think Roadhouse showed us something. I mean, that he can get super ripped. And he can fight.
SPEAKER_01:You ever read about his workouts for Southpaw and for Roadhouse?
SPEAKER_03:Oh, that's right. He did Southpaw.
SPEAKER_01:They're ungodly, Nick.
SPEAKER_03:See, he dedicated to the crap.
SPEAKER_01:I've read about his workouts. That's our Keanu, right there.
SPEAKER_03:But again, they are actors and that's all they have to do all day. But still, memorize lines and train.
SPEAKER_01:If I was independently wealthy and I want to get ripped, if you if someone, anyone said we're gonna start with an eight-mile run, I would immediately go, F you. You want me to do more? First of all, you want me to complete an eight-mile run?
SPEAKER_03:As a normal thing, as a regular everyday thing.
SPEAKER_01:That is not a warm-up. That is my week's workout. I don't need this crap.
SPEAKER_03:Who is your?
SPEAKER_01:Um, I actually wrote Jake Dylan Hall down. I also wrote Glenn Powell down before I moved him. I'm gonna go with Jeremy Allen White.
SPEAKER_03:Interesting.
SPEAKER_01:He's ripped, and I feel like he can be cocky if he wanted to. Sure. I feel like I don't get enough cocky Jeremy Allen White, is my problem.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. Yeah. I want more.
SPEAKER_01:I'm tired of seeing the humble, self-deprecating hot guy. What I want him to show up and say it's like, you're pretty and you're ripped, act like it.
SPEAKER_03:You're like you're talking you're like somebody who finally talked to Brad Pitt in the late 90s, like, get over it. Just get in, Mr. and Mrs. Smith. You're in Troy, deal with it.
SPEAKER_01:It's like bike club is great. Now we're done with the shit. 12 monkeys, seven.
SPEAKER_03:Look, you had your fun. Go be in Oceans 11, 12, and 13.
SPEAKER_00:David Fincher walks up. Get the hell away, David. But I want him to play an old man who becomes a young man. Give me a run of something different. It's gonna be really good. Damn it. He'll be a pretty part of it. So, alright.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, so yeah, I put Jeremy on white there. I think he'd be fun as a really cop. But also Ken Master's whole thing is like he's supposed to be a guy who like he's kind of like Will Smith in the bad boys movies. He's he's wealthy, but he wants to constantly prove himself. Okay. And it's kind of like that no one takes him seriously because he's pretty and wealthy, and he's like, no, I'm also just as good as Ryu.
SPEAKER_03:Got it. Okay, okay. He's the Vegeta to uh Yeah, the cooler one.
SPEAKER_01:He's the cooler one. Yeah. Yeah. He's literally any turtle that's not Leonardo.
SPEAKER_03:So you we both have our kins. Okay. So that just leaves with a Ryu. Ryu. I would say you just go Chun Li and Ryu. Okay.
SPEAKER_01:I have a feeling Ryu's gonna be the guy.
SPEAKER_03:I mean, yeah, probably for sure.
SPEAKER_01:All right, Chen Li, being played by Kalina Liang. Who played her in the 90s?
SPEAKER_03:Ming Na Wen. Okay, alright. Uh Steven Soderbergh's presence is something Kalina's been in, as well as a movie called Bad Genius. She's very relatively new. So we will see how she does. Uh I picked Maggie Q. She's from uh Nikita. She's she's from the Divergent series. She just kind of was a name there for a while. Okay, alright. She is a Vietnamese background, so she's not a Japanese actr Japanese or Japanese American actress, so there is that covete, but I think she has some presence, and I think she'll do well.
SPEAKER_01:That's fair. This is my riskiest casting. This is my stunt casting.
SPEAKER_03:I'm ready.
SPEAKER_01:This is my most stun casty thing. I'm bringing you Eosky.
SPEAKER_02:I'm not gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_01:I want to see if she's honestly she looks awesome. She's athletic as crap. Yeah. I just don't know if she can act. That's where I'm throwing her. I'm Cody Rosinger. I'm like, I have no idea in acting.
SPEAKER_03:I'll argue, but I'll argue this for you, though. Like you could have picked any of the three notable uh Japanese wrestlers in the WWE right now, but she's the most talented right now. Like she's pushed to the moon right now.
SPEAKER_01:She doesn't have she she she her her English is also really good. Yes. But Asuka's is hard. Asuka's is a little harsh. Yeah, it's it's like it's uh who's the guy? Shinsuke Nakamura. It's really hard for them to deliver good promos because they're they're heavy, heavy actually.
SPEAKER_03:And Kari Sane's a little younger and still, but still like in the fold there. But I think with EO, this also gives you the opportunity to still blend in some of the uh Japanese influence into this. And you can let her talk in Japanese. Yeah, oh no. And just let it huge in Japan.
SPEAKER_01:Because that's New Japan before she came over.
SPEAKER_03:Because that's kind of what worked with Sub Zero in the Mortal Kombat reboot. They treated it seriously and he was so good. And he was so good with it. So like don't make her have to speak English all the time. Just let her speak her natural language and she'll act better, probably, because of it. So she's not focused on like what am I saying? How okay, let me make sure I'm saying this right. So I think that's great. I think I think again it's bringing some legitimacy to the movie, and I think it's like allowing uh that branch of wrestling fans to come into, but at the same time, you're giving the authenticity of the fights on the women's side too, which is often I think a heavier burden is to find not just a good actress, but also someone who can do all the fighting and stuff. We've proven that women can fight, women can wrestle, women can do all these things, but she's like a total package of that.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so my EOSky pick was good. Yes, I think I'm only slightly familiar with her wrong. Wrestling stuff. I just liked everything I've seen.
SPEAKER_03:I think our non-wrestling fans will sit there and go, like, okay, this is I'm I'm done with the wrestlers, let's move on.
SPEAKER_01:Well, get over it.
SPEAKER_03:So where's where's Palm? Where's Palm Clement type? How do we say her name? That's that was Mantis in Guardians.
SPEAKER_01:Um you gave me yours. So we're on to Ryu.
SPEAKER_03:We're on to Ryu. Ryu. I don't know how to say it.
SPEAKER_01:I think it's Ryu.
SPEAKER_03:Okay. I'll trust you.
SPEAKER_01:I don't know. I feel like I've been corrected before by gaming nerds when I've said Ryu, and they're like, it's Ryu.
SPEAKER_03:How do Ryu say the Shiroken guy? It's pronounced say the Japanese R sound by flattening your tongue against your pal. Okay, wait. It's not Ryu. Ryu or it's Ryu.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so I'm not supposed to say you though. Ryu.
SPEAKER_03:Ryu, yes. Yes. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Also, aside from if I don't get the BMW in the back, if I don't get one Shirokin in this.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, they gotta have a Sheroken in it.
SPEAKER_01:Well, the 94 didn't.
SPEAKER_03:That's because they're dumb, Cory. We've established this it's a bad movie.
SPEAKER_01:He does do a weird he does do the move for a second. It's a really weird catch and you miss it, but he doesn't yell Shirokin. Who played him in 90?
SPEAKER_03:Who played Byron Man? Byron Man. That does not sound like a Japanese name too much.
SPEAKER_01:And now being played by Andrew Koji.
SPEAKER_03:Byron Man M A and N Byron Man. Uh he was no, he was he's Hong Kong American actor. He was known as Street Fighter and some other things like Man with the Iron Fist, Wing Chow, in the big short. So yeah, he has an extensive background. I think that we're talking about how with r uh Ryu they were trying they the the Capcom wanted this specific guy, and instead they put him as like a no-name military guy instead, which is funny.
SPEAKER_01:I think I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Like they had a big star over there that they're like, oh no, we want him, and they're like, uh, we don't we don't really want him.
SPEAKER_01:Well is you I'm gonna start.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I kept Andrew Koji.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like he's I can't do better than Andrew Koji.
SPEAKER_03:I think it's fair. He's got some he he's he's has some background.
SPEAKER_01:He's a genuine fighter. Or I mean he's got genuine martial arts experience. He he he carried the warrior. I'm I'm like, I'm I'm just like, I can't do better.
SPEAKER_03:He was also Storm Shadow in the Snake Eyes movie.
SPEAKER_01:He was Storm Shadow in Snake Eyes.
SPEAKER_03:He was also in Bullet Train. So he has some experience.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. I can't do better.
SPEAKER_03:We need a new modern crossover martial arts store.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, if I wanted to make this dumb, I could put Randall Park.
SPEAKER_03:And just just just send it to the ground crashing.
SPEAKER_01:Bring over who's the who's the guy from Silicon Valley that got just ripped for a Marvel movie that's going nowhere.
SPEAKER_03:I don't know. I I know you're talking about from the show.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but like he was in Eternals.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, oh, you're talking about uh my brain's shut off. Big short, big, big, big, big sick. Kumal.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, Kumal.
SPEAKER_03:Kumal Nanjani. Sure.
SPEAKER_01:See, if I I just take Randall Park and say, do what this funny guy did and get shredded. Kumal Nangiani played losers, and then all of a sudden he's in one Marvel movie, and he's like now the most attractive man on the planet. That's true. He's got a square jaw, he's ripped as I'll get it. Do this. It'd be funny.
SPEAKER_03:It would be funny. It would be good.
SPEAKER_01:But now I'm gonna keep Andrew Kochi. Okay, that's fair. That's fair.
SPEAKER_03:I'm giving you a actor from that period of time. He was in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, uh Takishi Kanshiro. Uh he was the younger character in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon. And he has he's more from that side of the world, um, that cinema area, Hong Kong and all of that. But House of Flying Daggers and stuff. I just think, again, I'm keeping the same mentality of like I want a legitimate martial arts actor in there. So not as exciting as yours. But I do think I I I think it does, I think this movie does live or die with Andrew Koji's performance.
SPEAKER_01:It kind of does. Um because I would say that like Mortal Kombat, this newest one really was supposed to it kind of needed to live and die with the character they created out of nowhere for some reason. And that guy blew it. That guy sucked.
SPEAKER_03:He was.
SPEAKER_01:And and then a lot of the characters.
SPEAKER_03:And maybe maybe that's the thing. Maybe they're going like maybe they have that thought of like, let's build around this guy with a bunch of recognizable faces and names, and hope that people will walk away going, I really loved all these guys, but that guy was pretty good.
SPEAKER_01:I think Andrew Koji has more of a shot than the guy that played whatever in combat, unfortunately. Um I mean, to the point that when I think they were gonna try to put that character, they wanted it to be a thing they could put in the game later, and I don't think he made the next game. They're just like weird, dumb.
SPEAKER_03:It's weird, the sequel. The movie Carl Urban. Yeah, they're like kind of soft rebooting the the series they're currently running right now.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:And so it feels like a start of a movie because you start with Carl Urban in the real world and he's like, welcome to Mortal Kombat.
SPEAKER_01:Oh my gosh. It is it's that that movie was an incredible sub-zero and scorpion movie that had a weird movie in the middle of it. Yeah. It was the 2001 Space Odyssey of Mortal Kombat where it was it was 20 minutes of greatness. But the opposite. The middle sucked and the two bookends ruled. It's like, this is great. Give me more of these two. We should have just gotten a whole Scorpion Sub-Zero movie and just left everyone else out of it. And so. But yeah, no. So that's Street Fighter. That's it. That's the our welcome back episode. Quantum recast is way too long. Way too long, way too big casts. Video games, massive casts, a lot of Marvel. Nearly two hours. Yeah. I don't know if you're I mean, can you talk about movies anymore without talking about Marvel? I don't know if it's possible. Not in a modern context. Like we have to talk about Marvel now. Okay. Alright. Well, that was Street Fighter. I hope you um I honestly I would be curious what anyone thinks about this goofy ass movie.
SPEAKER_03:Can I can I run down for the ending since we're already running along and might as well just keep going? I asked ChatGPT in our newest segment.
SPEAKER_01:And I said Ash ChatGPT is our newest segment?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. To recast the 2026 Street Fighter movie in the 80s with action heroes. So without prompt, or just with this prompt, but without any changing or finangling, this is what the computer pushed out to us. From the top to the bottom, Ryu ish Sho Konsugi. He's a movie icon from Revenge of the Ninja. Ken Masters is Kurt Russell.
SPEAKER_01:Man, they've already sucking this up.
SPEAKER_03:Chun Lee is Cynthia Rothrock. Uh China O'Brien. One of the few female martial arts of the artist stars of the 80s. Guile. They put Dolph Lundron there.
SPEAKER_01:Man, they screwed this up hard.
SPEAKER_03:The villains, M. Bison is Schwarzenegger. Vega Vega Sean-Claude Van Damme on this one. Balrog is Mr. T. Sagat is Kareem Abdul Jabbar. For the other fighters, for Akuma, they have Sony Chiba. For Blanca, they have Lou Ferrigno. That's pretty straightforward. Zangeef, they got Bruno San Martino, or Jesse Ventura. They gave us options. And that's all they gave me. No Cami. I'll ask it Cami real quick. Cami? Question mark? See if it reads it. Good call. It says Bridget Nielsen. Well that I guess we should have seen that coming. But uh yeah, that's who that's all we got. I got a better version.
SPEAKER_01:Are you saying my chat GD's bet worse than yours? I I narrowed it down because uh by the way, I'm an AI expert now. Um mine gave me Ralph Macchio is Ryu. Emilio Esteves is Ken Masters. Allie Sheedy is Chun Lee. I would take Phoebe Cates.
SPEAKER_03:I said action stars. You just said 80s.
SPEAKER_01:I just said gimme 80s. I would take Phoebe Cates over Chun Lee. Alright. Tom Cruise is Guile.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:I would take Swayze. Give me Swayze. That's true. Um William Zapkaz Vega.
SPEAKER_02:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:I'm in. That that was the correct. Balrog is Carl Weathers. Um Kareem Abdul Jabbar is Sagitt. Okay. Alright. Okay. Um and then Judd Nelson is M Bison.
SPEAKER_03:So did you type M Bison beforehand?
SPEAKER_01:No. Okay.
SPEAKER_03:So you got your Breakfast Club Street Fighter.
SPEAKER_01:Kind of. Kind of. I just said give me a very 80s. I said young actors. Okay, alright. I said young actors.
SPEAKER_03:You should have seen that coming.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. But I like that they saw my I mean, it probably was listening to me when I said that.
SPEAKER_03:That's true.
SPEAKER_01:So, okay. I like I I'm okay with this. Okay. I'm okay with this. I would watch my movie of I Honda's Pat Marita.
SPEAKER_03:That's just okay. That's ridiculous.
SPEAKER_01:No, that's great. He's no longer a sumo wrestler, he's just the wise old kung fu master.
SPEAKER_03:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, we're done.
SPEAKER_03:We got it. We got it.
SPEAKER_01:But I like the new segment, Ash Chat GPT. Why didn't we why don't we just do that up top? Because it has saved so much time.
SPEAKER_03:That would we just kill the end the podcast at that point.
SPEAKER_01:We just told everyone how to just not listen to the stuff. How to beat us, yeah. And so, alright. Uh that's Street Fighter. Um, it's it's gonna be wild. I'm kind of with you that I it's at least exciting to know that we have no idea what we're walking into.
SPEAKER_02:That's true.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like I know what I'm walking into with the second Mortal Kombat.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But I don't know what we're walking into here.
SPEAKER_03:Time will tell.
SPEAKER_01:Like, it's gonna be This is gonna be the Lollapalooza of a fighter movie. This is just so weird. This is the weirdest set list I've ever seen. This is this is this is the goofiest thing I've ever seen. This is this is Green Day, followed by Tool, followed by Devo, followed by Primus. That was a then that was a Lollapalooza set. Okay. So that's what this movie is. Alright. Which maybe maybe that just means there's a little something for everybody, Nick.
SPEAKER_03:It's about the bands we we played along the way.
SPEAKER_01:And then Metallica is Blanca. Just because if you don't like any of this other stuff, Jason look Jason Momoa without a shirt. He's green.
SPEAKER_03:Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, alright, we're done.
SPEAKER_03:Be sure to subscribe, hit the like button, do all the things, follow us on Instagram. We're still there, we promise.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, we'll uh we'll do a more normal movie next time. Unless we do wacky races. We got Halloween coming up, so live action wacky race. Movie. Um, alright, alright, that's it. Say goodnight, Nick.
SPEAKER_03:Good night, Nick.