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HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER: Exciting New Trailer For Oliver Harper’s Street Fighter II Doc

When it comes to YouTube content creators, I have my favourites, the go-to channels that I will frequent with enthusiasm. As the point of interests are so vastly represented, if we focus purely on the entertainment genre my patronage is dedicated to action and pop culture, specifically the great Scott Adkins and his iconic ART OF ACTION interviews; and even more broadly the upcoming brilliance of Viking Samurai, whose productions are so diverse and equally incredible.When it comes to movie reviews, I venture to Ryan Hollinger’s indepth video essays and addicting Irish accent. By contrast Rossatron’s analysis of films possess a level of focus that is unmatched; a similar high-quality element is evident in the works of Accented Cinema who specializes in movies from the Far East. Let’s not forget Canadian Brandon Tenold, whose reviews of cult movies are done with a supremely sardonic comedy that is always entertaining. Then there is ofcourse Oliver Harper from the UK, whose output is characteristically British in its design with production of his reviews being sophisticated and thoughtful. Being an Englishman, Oliver Harper presents absolute refinement and clinical precision in his comprehensive video essays. There is a clear structure to each of his reviews, but this a time-honoured format that his viewers (like myself) do appreciate. In fact, his recent production ‘IN SEARCH OF THE LAST ACTION HEROES’ not only features the aforementioned Adkins as well as (but not limited to) action heroes like Phillip Rhee, Cynthia Rothrock and even famed Directors like Paul Veerhoven, Sheldon Lettich and Joey Ansah. In addition to this highly anticipated documentary movie, Harper recently unveiled a trailer for ‘HERE COMES A NEW CHALLENGER’ a documentary focused on the rise of Capcom’s ground breaking ‘STREET FIGHTER 2.’ As with all of Harper’s productions, this one looks to be high quality, well produced and very much in the sights of gamers worldwide. Possessing a clear 90s aesthetic, the trailer brings on a wave of nostalgia whilst pumping the enthusiasm of the audience; quite simply this looks awesome. This project will be crowd funded via Indie Gogo, and the details of which have been included below. From a critical and more educated standpoint, it is clear that the Japanese developers make the best one-on-one fighting games. The versions of Street Fighter 2 onwards possess a more nuanced tempo, more refined mechanics and a decisive methodology that makes it ideal for the competitive arena – it’s why the best fighting players in the world focus on fighting games birthed in the Land of the Rising Sun.

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STREET FIGHTER: WORLD WARRIOR Is Back In Development For A Series Adaptation

The last eight years have been some of the most electric for fans of Capcom’s Street Fighter game franchise. Actor and martial artist Joey Ansah’s hit webseries, Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist and its included feature film edit were an epic delight that showed the world that adapting a fighting game into live-action was possible.

Sadly, any news of a follow-up season with the announced Street Fighter: World Warrior program would land in limbo with Machinima holding all the cards at the time leading up to the go90 rollout of Street Fighter: Resurrection. It was an interesting segue but it left a lot of fans outside North America feeling excluded as go90 didn’t brought cast the show anywhere else.

I can’t speak fully on what happened thereafter save for my own hopes that Ansah’s vision would fully come to pass as quiet as things have been. Thankfully, and to the delightful shock of many, trade news sources are now running with word followed-up at Deadline that Entertainment One/Mark Gordon have closed a deal to officially produce the Street Fighter: World Warrior series fans have been waiting for for what feels like ages.

Ansah, who stars in Assassin’s Fist which he also helmed as well as go90 miniseries Street Fighter: Resurrection, is rejoining once more with Jacqueline Quella and Mark Wooding, to executive produce the series that will follow the four protagonists: Ryu, Ken, Guile and Chun-Li, as their individual journeys see them converge and work together to fight through the World Warrior tournament run by evil Shadowloo figure head and hulking force to be reckoned with, M. Bison.

“Street Fighter is a global tour de force franchise, having garnered immense worldwide commercial success and built a vast devoted fanbase that has only grown through its 30 year legacy. We are thrilled to be teaming up with Joey, Jacqueline and Mark, who are already so deeply connected to this brand, to bring this adored story to television audiences everywhere,” said Mark Gordon, eOne’s President and Chief Content Officer, Film, Television and Digital. “A particular strength of Street Fighter is the wide range of ethnically diverse characters and powerful women featured in the game. It will allow us to build an inclusive and engaging TV universe.” 

“After a long search, guided by the team behind Assassin’s Fist, we are delighted to be partnering with a company with the outstanding TV experience of Mark Gordon and eOne. They have the credentials to help us launch a faithful adaptation of Street Fighter as a major TV series,” said Yoshinori Ono, Capcom Executive Producer for Street Fighter.

Anash has long lauded the series as a signature project hailing the possibility of bringing video games to life in cinematic form. He proved so with positive responses gained from a three-minute proof of concept he did with Owen Trevor, and martial arts stars, actors Jon Foo and Christian Howard, the latter who would not only go onto recur in the series as Ken next to actor Mike Moh as Ryu, but help create and foundate the very universe envisioned with Ansah for fans.

In casting, not much is known about what is happening with the role of Chun-Li as Ansah is known to be very careful and observant in choosing. As for his choice for the role of Guile, however, I’m almost certain Boyka fanatics are holding Ansah to account after stating the following to readers of Shogun Gamer in 2013:

“…I’ll tell fans now, if we succeed with Assassin’s Fist and move on to the World Warrior I can say now that I want Scott to be my Guile. Look at how Scott looks in Undisputed 2 and imagine that but with blonde hair and an American accent. He would make a killer Guile.”

Fans who were able to catch Resurrection also got a surprise glimpse of the notorious M. Bison which might hint further just who Ansah has in mind to wear the signature red military garb and cape once more.

Ansah, also best known for stunt and acting credits in The Bourne Ultimatum, Green Street Hooligans: Underground and series Beowulf, can be seen battling opposite Tom Cruise in Christopher McQuarrie’s Mission: Impossible – Fallout this summer. eOne is handling international sales on Street Fighter: World Warrior.

Stay tuned!

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Confusion And Frustration Stir As Machinima Botches STREET FIGHTER: RESURRECTION Release On Amazon Prime

Actor and filmmaker Joey Ansah is front and center this week in the wake of Machinima’s mismanged Amazon Prime release of the four-part live-action minseries, Street Fighter: Resurrection. On Tuesday, Ansah took to his fanpage on Facebook to share a fantastic alternative promotional one-sheet for the series, in addition to announcing the news pertaining to the series’s accidental upload and subsequent removal from Amazon Prime branches in the U.K., German and Japan in the wake of its North American availability this week.

“Despite SFR also appearing available to view on UK, JP & DE Amazon Prime yesterday, this was in fact an upload error by Machinima/Amazon and the series has been taken down in those locations.” says Ansah. “SFR will not be available on Amazon in any country other than U.S.A.  How such an upload error is even possible on such a huge platform is beyond us. We are launching an investigation into how such a foul up happened.”

Following the five-year long, evolutionary success of Ansah’s 2014 webseries/feature film release, Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist, Machinima insisted its own interest in collaborating with Ansah on a project in lieu of Capcom’s game release, “Street Fighter V”. Together with a solidified deal to present the film on Verizon’s go90 mobile application, Machinima fully financed and thereby debuted Street Fighter: Resurrection, with arbitrary control over its global distribution. As such, the series was made available solely to U.S. consumers, much to the chagrin of the worldwide fanbase Ansah accrued. Machinima and AMC Internatarional Partners Iberia also announced a package deal to release the series on a diverse gaming network for audiences in Spain and Portugal.

“Unlike SFAF, Machinima fully financed SFR and as a result control all international distribution.” Ansah adds. “We were initially led to believe during production of SFR that the series would be as easily viewable internationally by our fans as SFAF was. This turned out not to be the case, despite continued protests by us.”

Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist stars, actors Mike Moh and Christian Howard reprise their roles for the show which introduces actor and martial artist Alain Moussi (Kickboxer: Vengeance, Kickboxer: Retaliation), leading the story of two warriors of Hadou, and a fledgeling martial arts heiress who find themselves swept into an reanimated supersoldier’s mission to thwart the sale of a deadly weapon being engineered and sold by a criminal mastermind thought to be long dead. Martial arts and stunt exponents, actresses Natasha Hopkins and Katrina Durden (Marvel’s Doctor Strange) also star with appearances by Amy Johnston (Lady Bloodfight) and multi-decorated martial artist and instructor, actor Silvio Simac (Undisputed 2: Last Man Standing, Transporter 3).

“The SFAF and SFR creative team are fully aware of how frustrating, strange, restrictive and disenfranchising the release of SFR has been to the people who matter: YOU, our fans.” continued Ansah in an emphatic apology to fans. “Believe us when we say we are deeply sorry and share your frustration and have long since gone collectively bald from tearing our hair out.  We have learnt from this unfortunate situation and assure you any future SF live action productions from us will NOT be in partnership with companies that cannot guarantee a transparent, easy to access distribution. Thanks for your understanding and continued support and please keep faith in us.”

Updates currently remain pending on the progress behind Street Fighter: World Warrior which tentatively has Street Fighter: Assassin’s Fist producer Jacqueline Quella and co-producer Mark Wooding attached as of the announcement in 2014. Stay tuned for more updates as things develop.

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MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE 6 Adds Joey Ansah

Filming is currently underway in France for writer and director Christopher McQuarrie’s latest installment with the sixth Mission: Impossible film for Paramount and Skydance. Given this, it’s likely that miscellaneous fan photos of the set would be discovered and as it turns out, there’s a whole viral batch of jubilant behind-the-scenes gems on Instagram with our cast on set, a few of which include and otherwise confirm actor and martial artist Joey Ansah.

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