{"id":8635,"date":"2025-06-23T18:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8635\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T18:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T18:12:08","slug":"street-fighter-movie-casts-callina-liang-as-chun-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/8635\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Street Fighter&#8217; Movie Casts Callina Liang As Chun-Li"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t<strong>EXCLUSIVE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/callina-liang\/\" id=\"auto-tag_callina-liang\" data-tag=\"callina-liang\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Callina Liang<\/a>, star of Steven Soderbergh\u2019s recent supernatural thriller Presence, has landed the female lead role of Chun-Li in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/legendary\/\" id=\"auto-tag_legendary\" data-tag=\"legendary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Legendary<\/a>\u2018s live-action Street Fighter movie, based on the video games from Capcom, sources tell Deadline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tReps for Legendary declined to comment, and the film\u2019s plot remains under wraps. One of the most iconic characters in the franchise, Chun-Li is a skilled martial artist and Interpol officer who first appeared in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/street-fighter\/\" id=\"auto-tag_street-fighter\" data-tag=\"street-fighter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Street Fighter<\/a> II in 1991. Liang joins a cast that includes the previously announced Andrew Koji, Noah Centineo, Jason Momoa, Roman Reigns, and Orville Peck. Bad Trip\u2018s Kitao Sakurai is the flick\u2019s director.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLaunched in 1987, Street Fighter is a series of fighting games revolving around intense one-on-one battles between a diverse cast of martial artists. The games often center around a global fighting tournament organized by M. Bison, the leader of the evil organization Shadaloo. Street Fighter has sold over 55 million units worldwide since launch, making it one of the most well-known and highest-grossing video game franchises of all time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tLiang stars opposite Lucy Liu, Chris Sullivan and more in the critically acclaimed Presence, which released in January via Neon, around a year after its world premiere at Sundance. Previously, the actress has also been seen in the J.C. Lee thriller Bad Genius, as well as Apple TV+\u2019s Foundation. She is repped by UTA, Payne Management in the UK, Authentic Talent and Literary Management, and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Callina Liang, star of Steven Soderbergh\u2019s recent supernatural thriller Presence, has landed the female lead role of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[9841,9842,9843,158,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-8635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-callina-liang","9":"tag-legendary","10":"tag-street-fighter","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114734035302451124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}