The new Street Fighter movie that was first announced back in 2023 looks to be without a release date again, as Sony’s reportedly taken the film off its calendar of upcoming releases, meaning it looks like it won’t be dropping on the previously announced date of March 20, 2026. Instead, we’ll just have to wait and see if it’s re-scheduled at some point in the future.
According to Variety, this change came as part of some wider tweaks by Sony to its list of upcoming movies that’ve been penned in for specific dates. Those tweaks also saw upcoming Tommy Wirkola shark thriller Beneath the Storm be re-named Shiver and have its date moved from August 2025 to July 2026, just a few months after the SF movie was previously set to drop.
It’s maybe something we could have seen coming a bit, given that this SF movie from Legendary and Capcom has had a bit of a fun behind-the-scenes lifespan so far. Originally pencilled-in directors Danny and Michael Philippou (Talk To Me) were revealed to have departed the project in summer 2024, leaving it looking for someone else to full that role.
That happened last month, with Kitao Sakurai of Eric Andre Show fame being reported to have come on board as a fresh director. The question was how much work had been done on the film while the search had been happening, if it was still going to hit that March 2026 release date. With this change, it looks possible that the answer was not enough.
That’s not neccessarily a bad thing, assuming the movie does get re-scheduled by Sony for a different date at some point in the future. Giving Sakurai a bit more time to put together something that matches his/the team’s vision, rather than having to rush to make sure a rapidly approaching and already set date is hit, sounds like it could be a good plan. I won’t dig out the famous Shigeru Miyamoto quote about delayed games that he, er, might not have actually said, but yeah.
Here’s hoping it does get a new date soon, and that it ends up being as much of a hit as Street Fighter 6, which our fighting game gremlins at VG247 thought was pretty rad.