I'm not so sure about this one, but here goes: the official Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li blog has the first image of one of the film's characters, Detective May Sunee. Wait ... who?
"She’s Bangkok Gangland Homicide," writes Aaron Horwitz on the blog. "A no-nonsense, fast-talking, half-Thai cop who rocks a Ducati and a set of gold cuffs."
So that's her above, played by actress Moon Bloodgood (from the failed, but decent, television series Journeyman), whose real name is actually cooler than the character. My question is this -- were there not enough existing Street Fighter universe characters to do the job? Well, I guess 1994's Street Fighter: The Movie answered that question, didn't it?
The blog also has production art from the film that features Vega battling Chun Li, and kind of redeems the whole "we wanted to write an attractive, bad-ass Asian chick into the film for the hell of it" thing. Check it out.
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5:22 PM on 05.07.2008
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...needs more Balrog. And him randomly getting his boxing outfit again.
Translation: CHEEEEEEEEESE.
Fuck's sake, somebody stop this.
"She’s Bangkok Gangland Homicide," writes Aaron Horwitz on the blog. "A no-nonsense, fast-talking, half-Thai cop who rocks a Ducati and a set of gold cuffs."
thats the biggest line of bullshit I've read in a WHILE
That "fast-talking" line made me imagine her with Chris Tucker's head on her body.
Man...just don't suck...as bad as the 1994 version.
This one is DOA.
This is exactly why no games with a decent plot suitable for film, are never chosen for such treatment, because IMO Hollywood either hasn't a clue and/or will do their best to not promote games well.
Next time Capcom, forget these hollywood fools and do SF proper justice, the anime way. Has the debacles of three RE films taught you no common sense? Even Lost Planet is more credible movie material than this.
I certainly won't be watching this bilge.
That sounds like a description for the antogonist in an upcoming Jason Statham movie. Cue techno music, then zoom in on her face after she stops on her front wheel and takes her sunglasses off, even though it's nighttime. sounds good.
being chinese myself, I have to ask- are we really looked down upon that much that you can't cast a chinese person as a chinese person? did you really look that hard? really?
(for the record it is Kristin Kreuk from smallville playing chun li)
Kreuk (pronounced /ˈkruːk/)[2] was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her father, Peter Kreuk, is of Dutch descent; her mother, Deanna Che, is of Chinese descent, but was born in Indonesia; her maternal grandmother is born in Jamaica of Chinese descent.
Just thought you should know.
I went to school with her, she's as non-Chinese as possible.
She's something like 1/8th Chinese.
Crimson Viper (クリムゾン・ヴァイパー, Kurimuzon Vaipā?) is a female American spy wearing sunglasses, leather gloves and a high tech, form-fitting suit filled with deadly gadgets such as rocket boots and tazer gloves. Although she is a mother outside of the spy business, she wears an emotionless mask while on-duty, ignoring the obligation to her fellow man in favor of her own goal: the destruction of the weapons being made by S.I.N., Shadaloo's weapons research division. She works for the Central Intelligence Agency while posing as an agent of Shadaloo; not even Interpol and Delta Red is aware of her true allegiances, and as such she is drawn into a battle with Interpol agent Chun-Li and Delta Red Agent Cammy. Viper's real name is Maya (マヤ), and she has a daughter named Lauren. Because of her real name being Maya, she is suspected to be the same character with the same name in the latest Street Fighter movie Legend of Chun Li played by Moon Bloodgood.